The journey of Palliative Care and Hospice includes the Culture and Spiritual Beliefs of the patient, caregivers and healthcare providers. These elements can provide an opportunity to honor our patients and their loved ones, and to individualize their care. Tragically, they can also contribute to anxiety and confusion, particularly where issues such as pain management, existential suffering and bereavement come into play. This year's Palliative Symposium seeks to address the uniqueness of Culture and Spiritual Beliefs through the lens of multiple specialties, and to offer tools and strategies to optimize the care provided throughout the pathway of long-term illness and the dying process.

Agenda:

0745-0800 Registration

0800 – 0810 Welcome and Introduction: Christopher Pietras, MD

0810 – 0910 Keynote Speaker: “Coping with Cumulative Loss Through the Palliative Care Journey: An Exploration of the Lived Experience of Grief.” Shirley Otis-Green MSW, MA, ACSW, LCSW, OSW-C, FNAP

0910 – 0915 Break

0915-1015 Whole Child Care: Addressing Suffering & Finding Healing in Pediatric Palliative Care Glen Komatsu, MD

1015-1115 Culture, Ethics, and Palliative Care: You should keep it simple but that won’t make it easy.” Jeffrey de Castro Mariano, MD, AGSF

1115-1120 Break

1120-1200 Resilience in a Time of Trauma: Blake Arnall MDiv BCC

1200-1215 Closing Remarks

Contact hours will be provided:

Nurses will be awarded 4.0 contact hour(s) for participation in the course.

UCLA Health is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 12511 for 5.0 contact hour(s).