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GENERAL SESSION | Eccles Health Sciences Education Building Alumni Hall 

7:15 | Registration & Breakfast   

8:00 | Welcome & Opening Remarks Holli Martinez, FNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN

8:10 | Keynote:  Language as Medicine: Finding the Right Words for the Right Conversations about Living and Dying Sunita Puri, MD, MS

9:10 | Jackpot Journal Club Lynn Reinke, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FPCN 

10:00 | Morning Break & Networking [20 minutes]

10:20 | TBD Katie Irby, MD

11:10 | Update in Hospice & Palliative Care Cari Low, MD & Gabrielle Langmann, MD, MS

12:00 | Lunch Break & Networking [50 minutes]

12:50-1:00 | Poem Reading Susan Sample, PhD, MFA 

1:00 | Grief Exploration Casey Murphy, MD 

2:00 | End-of-Life Care in Vulnerable Populations panel discussion with Timothy Farrell, MD/Geriatrics, Jillian Olmsted, Executive Director & Jeffrey McNally, MD from The INN Between

2:50 | Afternoon Break & Networking [10 minutes] 

3:00 | Hearing the Native Voice in Serious Illness Abbey Hafen, DNP & Brittany Begaye, MD, MMS

3:50 | Pediatric Breakout Session Reconvenes in Alumni Hall  

4:00 | Closing Remarks & Evaluations Holli Martinez, FNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN

PEDIATRIC BREAKOUT SESSION | Room 2948

1:00 | Child Life with Palliative Care Davi Vitela, PhD, CCLS

2:00 | Palliative Sedation Guideline Development for Pediatric Patients Sarah Schear, MD, MS & Holly Spraker-Perlman, MD, MS

2:50 | Afternoon Break & Networking [10 minutes]

3:00 | Taboo Topics at End-of-Life Holly Spraker-Perlman, MD, MS 

3:50 | Pediatric Breakout Session Reconvenes in Alumni Hall