End-of-Life Care Summit

7:00 am-7:45 am:  Check-in, light refreshments, and vendor booths 

7:45 am-8:00 am: Welcome: Anjanette LaBellarte, HFO Executive Director and Regina Waters, Ph.D., HFO Board and Event Committee Chair

8:00 am- 8:30 am:  Welcome and Opening Plenary Session:  “Prognosis is Poor” Keynote:  Melissa Gaines, MD, FACP, Director of Hospice and Palliative Care at CoxHealth, Springfield 

8:30 am-9:30 am: Concurrent Session I

Breakout A: “Healing Reimagined: An Innovative Palliative Program for Pain” Michelle Goetz, DO FACOI, Mercy, Palliative Care, St. Louis 

Breakout B: “Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care: A Path from Aspiration to Implementation ”  Cara L. Wallace, PhD, LMSW, APHSW-C, Professor St. Louis University, Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing           

9:30 am-9:45 am: Break/Vendors 

9:45 am-11:15 am: “Addressing Cross Cultural Issues at End-of-Life” David B. Hunt, J.D. Senior Director, Health Equity, BCT Partners, Think Cultural Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

11:15am-12:15 pm: Lunch, Networking, and Vendors

12:15 pm-1:15 pm:  Concurrent Session II

Breakout A:  “Heart of Hospice” Andrew Mayo, MD, HMD, Chief Medical Officer, St. Croix Hospice

Breakout B: “Conversational Triggers and Disease Progression: The Ethics of Shared Decision-Making” Amanda Altobell, MTS, Ph.D.(c), HEC-C, Director of Ethics Mercy Springfield

1:15 pm-1:30 pm: Special Announcement: Randy Bacon Film and Photo Exhibition on Multidisciplinary End-of-Life Care Dr. Melissa Gaines provides overview of the initiative and sneak peak of photo exhibition

1:30 pm-1:45 pm: “Addressing Opportunities in the Hospice Care and Improving Referral Rates and Staff Engagement ” Robert Carolla, MD, retired oncologist

1:45 pm-2:00 pm: Break, afternoon refreshments and vendors 

2:00 pm-3:15 pm: Barriers and Solutions to High Quality Serious Illness Management: 10 Practical Problems”  Patrick White, MD, PhD, HMDC, FACP, FAAHPM. Chief, Division of Palliative Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine

3:15 pm-3:30 pm: Closing Remarks/Education Evaluation 

No relevant financial relationships were identified for any member of the planning committee or any presenter/author of the program content.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with The Essentials Areas and Policies of the Missouri State Medical Association through the joint providership of CoxHealth and Hospice Foundation of the Ozarks and Mercy and Citizens Memorial Healthcare. CoxHealth is accredited by the Missouri State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CoxHealth designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 

CoxHealth Education Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Midwest MSD Provider Approval #MO626-3
6.0 Contact Hours

This program meets the criteria for category PDU #13 (attending employer-provided continuing education) and Missouri Board of Occupational Therapy per 20 CSR 2205-5 and qualifies as 5.75 contact hours (equivalent to 5.75 NBCOT© Professional Development Units).

This program has been approved by the APTA Arkansas approval number APTA-AR-2469 for 5.75 contact hours and it is deemed equivalent by the Missouri Board of Healing Arts per 4 CSR 150-3.203-5A.
 

National Association of Social Workers and Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators credits are pending