The Maria and William G. Spears Research Institute is a national leader in designing and conducting innovative research that draws on theories and methods from the social, behavioral and medical sciences to understand and further explore relationships between spirituality and health. Since its establishment in 1998, the Institute’s staff, working with chaplains as co-investigators, has […]
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CME/CEU Information Continuing Medical Education Rush University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical. Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Rush University Medical Center designates this live/internet enduring material/enduring material activity for a maximum of 22 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the
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Monday May 20, 2019 Conference Introduction Rev. Eric J. Hall, DTh, APBCC President and CEO of HealthCare Chaplaincy Network™ (HCCN) and its affiliate, Spiritual Care Association Keynote Dr. Kathleen Foley, M.D. Attending Neurologist Emeritus Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Presenting: Advancing Spiritual Care through Palliative Care Globally: Opportunities and Challenges Definition of palliative care
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2019 Keynote Monday, May 20, 2019 Keynote Dr. Kathleen Foley, M.D. Attending Neurologist Emeritus Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Presenting: Advancing Spiritual Care through Palliative Care Globally: Opportunities and Challenges Definition of palliative care is the one definition in health care that has spirituality in it. Role of spirituality in the United Nations where the
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The Critical Bibliography Series for Health Care Chaplains HealthCare Chaplaincy, with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, is pleased to offer Practical Bearings, a series of bibliographies and critical reviews of the important books, articles and other publications on the theory and practice of pastoral care. The series name Practical Bearings derives from
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Chih-Hung Chang, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Medicine, Buehler Center on Aging, Health, & SocietyFeinberg School of MedicineNorthwestern University George Fitchett, D.Min., Ph.D.Associate Professor, Director of ResearchDepartment of Religion, Health, and Human ValuesRush University Medical Center Kenneth Pargament, Ph.D.Professor of PsychologyBowling Green State University Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr.P.H.Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care PolicyBaruch College Dylan Smith,
Susan D. Block, M.D Susan D. Block, M.D., is the Chair of the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, a national center of excellence in palliative care education. Dr. Block received her
Susan D. Block, M.D.Chair, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative CareDana-Farber Cancer InstituteProfessor of Psychiatry and MedicineHarvard Medical School Nathan Cherny, M.D.Department of Oncology, Cancer Pain, and Palliative MedicineShaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem Harvey M. Chochinov, M.D., Ph.D.Professor of Psychiatry, Community Health Sciences, and Family MedicineDivision of Palliative CareUniversity of Manitoba George Fitchett, D.Min., Ph.D.Professor
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Advocate Health Care Chaplaincy Research (Advocate Health Care team) Chaplains’ Work with Families of Critically Ill Children (Children’s Mercy Hospital team) Dana Farber Slides with Final Edits (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital team) Duke Revision Part 1 of 3 (Duke University team part 1 of 3) Duke Revision Part 2 of 3 (Duke University team
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HealthCare Chaplaincy Network™ (HCCN), founded in 1961, is a global health care nonprofit organization that offers spiritual care-related information and resources, and professional chaplaincy services in hospitals, other health care settings, and online. Its mission is to advance the integration of spiritual care in health care through clinical practice, research and education in order to improve patient experience and satisfaction and to help people faced with illness and grief find comfort and meaning – whoever they are, whatever they believe, wherever they are.
