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ICE Australia Pty Ltd
183 Albion Street
Surry Hills, 2010
NSW, Australia |
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T: +61 2 8282 0544
F: +61 2 9368 1500 |
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The provision of Whole Person Care is both challenging and rewarding for patient and practitioner. Three international speakers and a host of national speakers will accompany us in exploring the complexities and challenges in responding to the distress of people who face life threatening illness.
This Symposium is for all doctors and other healthcare professionals who work with patients with life threatening or terminal illness.
In response to the needs of clinicians working with patients who have life–threatening or terminal illnesses, this inaugural, interactive and thought provoking Symposium will be held in Sydney in late October.
As we respond to patients with life threatening illness and their families, we are in a unique and challenging situation. We are confronted by people who may be experiencing great suffering, hopelessness, and possible loss of meaning. Our patients want the benefit of our knowledge, and of our diagnostic and procedural skills, yet the way that we communicate and connect with our patients in their distress is equally important to them. The expectations can seem overwhelming.
With the heavy demands of our work, we may have little time to reflect regularly, or to consider how we can make a difference in these stressful situations. There is little time to reflect on our own practice... and ourselves.
The aim of this Symposium is to introduce the concept of whole person care to health professionals and to provide insight into strategies to improve patients’ well being - but also health professionals’ well being.
International and national speakers will include Professor Harvey Max Chochinov and Dr Thomas Egnew, Dr. Robin Youngson, Dr. Stephanie Dowrick and others. Topics will include: exploring aspects of hope, dignity conserving care, meaning making, the clinician as healer, burnout and clinician self-care and the interaction of the health service and health provider.
The target audience will include health care workers involved in the care of patients with life-threatening or terminal illnesses: medical and radiation oncologists, general practitioners, palliative care specialists, surgeons, physicians and other health care professionals.
Following the symposium we are honoured and excited to announce that our guest speaker, Professor Harvey Chochinov will be running a two day post–symposium workshop on Dignity Therapy.
This is an inaugural symposium in this field in Australia. We hope that this will be the first of many more activities to come.
We look forward to seeing you all there. Places will be limited – so book soon.
Dr Judith Lacey & Prof John Kearsley
Co-Convenors
Organising Committee
Prof John Kearsley - Director of Cancer Services, St George Hospital and conjoint Professor, UNSW
Dr Judith Lacey - Palliative Care Physician, Calvary & St George Hospitals, Sydney
Dr Frank Brennan - Staff Specialist in Palliative Medicine at Calvary, St George and Sutherland Hospitals, Sydney
Ms Simone Connell - Bereavement Service Team Leader, Calvary Health Care, Sydney
A/Prof Liz Lobb - Associate Professor Palliative Care (Allied Health), Calvary Health Care, Sydney
Dr Christine Sanderson - Palliative Medicine Physician, Calvary Health Care, Sydney
Dr David Thomas - Medical Oncologist, St George and Wollongong Hospitals, Sydney
This Symposium is proudly presented in partnership with St George Hospital Cancer Services and Calvary Health Care Sydney. |
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