Educational Sessions
The 2024 Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care will be presented in a hybrid format, creating an engaging educational experience planned to meet the unique needs of each attendee with the aim to enhance the delivery and quality of hospice and palliative care.
The below schedule is adapted for both in-person and virtual session planning. All morning keynote sessions (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) will be live-streamed from Phoenix for all audiences.
The content session schedule for the Annual Assembly is designed to give viewers a schedule-at-a-glance of the high-quality accepted sessions for Assembly 2024. The virtual platform will offer access to accredited educational content that promotes work-life balance and maximum access to the same exceptional content that will also be presented during the in-person meeting.
In-Person and Virtual Schedule*
Below is a snapshot of the 2024 Annual Assembly schedule. The full schedule will be posted in early winter.
Times are listed in Mountain Standard Time (MT).
*The schedule is subject to change.
Wednesday, March 20
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Pre-conference workshops (P01 - P14) require separate registration at an additional cost and are for in-person attendees only.
8 am - 5pm
HMD Board Certification Review Course and Update (P01)
Interprofessional Leadership Skills for Creating Positive Change (AAHPM and CAPC Collaborative Workshop) (P02)
ACHPN Certification Review Course (P03)
8 - 11am
Lessons in Leadership Using the Art of Poker (P07)
8 am - 12pm
Oncologist in my Pocket: What the Palliative Clinician Needs to Know About Hematology, Oncology and Radiation Oncology (P04)
Recognizing and Leveraging our Privilege towards Allyship in Action (P05)
Unleash the Therapist Within: Applying Psychotherapy Skills to Elevate Palliative Care Practice (P06)
12 - 1:30pm
Psychedelic Assisted Therapies in Palliative and Hospice Care Are Here: Let’s Discuss! (P08)
1 - 5pm
Management of Challenging Symptoms in Hospice and Palliative Care Patients (SPPCP) (P09)
Assessment Essentials for HPM Faculty (P10)
Voices of Loss and Grief (P11)
Afternoon at the Museum: Finding Connection and Meaning (P12)
Advanced Opioid Pharmacotherapy: Investigating all the Nooks and Crannies! (P13)
1:30 - 5pm
Tackling Tough Conversations (P14)
5 - 6:30pm
Faculty Attended Poster Session
5:15 - 6pm
AAHPM and HPNA New Member and Annual Assembly First-Timer Reception
5:30 - 7:30pm
Opening Reception with Exhibits
Thursday, March 21
8 - 8:45am
Introductions and AAHPM Award Presentations
8:45 - 9:45am
KEYNOTE SESSION
9:45 - 10:30am
Break with Exhibits and Poster Walk
10:30 - 11:30am
60- MINUTE LIVE STREAM SESSION
Speed Dating with the Pharmacy Ladies
60-MINUTE AAHPM INVITED SESSION
Bogetz Lectureship
A Primer in Palliative Psychiatry
60-MINUTE HPNA INVITED SESSION
Nessa Coyle Leadership Lecture
A Nurse Scientist’s Journey and the Promise of Inclusive Leadership
60-MINUTE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Interprofessional Spiritual Care Education Curriculum
VBID Hospice Carve-In: Thriving in a New World
Pearls from Adolescent Psychology and Psychiatry to Aid Pediatric and Adult Palliative Care
GROUPED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Primary Addiction Training for Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows: A National Survey of Program Directors
Palliative Care Experiences for People with Opioid-related Health Harms: A Multi-setting Qualitative Study
Disparities in Access to Palliative Care: Geographic Distribution of Palliative Care Specialists in 2022
A National Study of Psychosocial Well-being of Spouses of Persons Living with Dementia in the Last Years of Life
GROUPED PROFESSIONAL-IN-TRAINING/EARLY CAREER PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Give Us 8 Weeks: Building a Palliative Care Pipeline for URiM Medical Students
Consider Concurrent Hospice Care for Patients with Terminal Anorexia
Peeing Purple? Purple Urine Bag Syndrome in the Dying Patient
Water Under the Bridge: When Families Are at Odds Over Hydration at the End-of-Life
GROUPED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
The Prevalence of Lifetime Trauma and Association with Symptom Burden among Adults in the Last Years of Life
Psychological Distress Among Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis and Their Family Caregivers
"I Don't Want to Die on the Street": Perspectives on Aging and Illness by Homeless Adults Receiving Street Medicine
Variation in Uptake of Specialist Palliative Care Among People with Advanced Heart Failure Across VA Medical Centers
11:30 am - 1pm
Lunch Break with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
1 - 2pm
60-MINUTE LIVE STREAM SESSION
Hospice After-Hours: Is it Related and Who Pays?
60-MINUTE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Palliative Care in the Post-Roe Era: A Call to Engagement and Advocacy
GROUPED EDUCATION PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Ain’t Never Been Cared For: Identifying Priorities in Caring for Homeless and Vulnerably Housed Individuals
Strategies for Working with an Incarcerated Surrogate Decision Maker
GROUPED LEADERSHIP/PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Financial Toxicity: The Hidden Side Effect of Cancer
Development of a Cancer-Specific Palliative Care Educational Program for Advanced Practice Providers
GROUPED PEDIATRICS PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Development of Specialty-Based Pediatric Palliative Care Clinics
“Home Sweet Home”: A Pediatric Palliative Home Transport Guide for Rural and Under-Resourced Areas
GROUPED SYMPTOMS ASSESSMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Bringing Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy from Psychiatry to Palliative Care
Addressing Existential Distress Among Family Caregivers in Palliative Care through Meaning-Making Interventions
GROUPED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Factors Associated with Hospital Admission in the Last Month of Life
Developing ALERT, a Machine Learning Model to Identify Six-Month Mortality in Patients with Advanced Cancer
Life Prolonging Choices in Renal Failure: A Qualitative Study Focusing on Chinese American Patients
Effect of Proactive Monitoring Using the Integrated Palliative Care Outcomes Scale (IPOS) on Patient Quality of Life
GROUPED PROFESSIONAL-IN-TRAINING/EARLY CAREER PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
A Navigator-Delivered Model to Enhance Early Palliative Care Access for Women of Color with Advanced Breast Cancer
Clinical Perspectives on Cancer and Palliative Care Access among Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Veterans
Rural Hospice and Palliative Caregiving: A Scoping Review of Social Determinants of Health & Emotional Well-being
Using Patient and Care Partner Perspectives to Optimize Rehabilitation in Advanced Heart Failure
GROUPED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Impact of Palliative Care Referrals on End-Of-Life Outcomes in Patients with Advanced Hematologic Malignancies
Improving Perioperative Communication in Urologic Serious Illness: A Team Approach For Goals of Care and Surgery
Embedded Onco-Palliative Care: Improving access to palliative care delivery for patients with thoracic malignancy
Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care Delivery in High-Grade Glioma
2 - 2:30pm
Break with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
2:30 - 3:30pm
60-MINUTE LIVE STREAM SESSION
Pediatric State of the Science in Hospice and Palliative Care
60-MINUTE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Embodiment for Caregivers: Integrative Methodologies for Cultivating Self-Care
GROUPED LEADERSHIP/PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Palliative Oncology: Patient Outcomes and Lessons Learned from a Novel Criteria-based Inpatient Consult Service
Measuring the Impact of Outpatient Palliative Care
GROUPED EDUCATION PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Overcoming Geographical Barriers: A Distance Mediated Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Seminar
Living in Stillness: Learning from Art and Literature on Dignity and Despair in Advanced ALS
GROUPED HOSPICE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Liability for Under-prescribing Opioids in Vulnerable Patients with Severe Pain
Hospice Care in Emergency Planning and Response
GROUPED SYMPTOMS ASSESSMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
7Ps: An Organized Approach to Opioid Management for Patients with OUD and Painful Serious Illness
Early Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Involvement for Patients Who Inject Drugs
GROUPED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Disparities in Rural Hospital Goals of Care Documentation
African Americans Communities Speak to Healthcare Providers: Clinical Practice Outcomes
Listening to Many Voices: Serious Illness Communication Preferences Among Black and Latino Patients
Apoyo con Cariño: Improving Palliative Care Outcomes for Hispanics with Serious Non-Cancer Illness
GROUPED PROFESSIONAL-IN-TRAINING/EARLY CAREER PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Finding Compassion within Compassionate Release
Life and Choice: Navigating Palliative Care in a Shifting Legal Landscape
Addressing the Systemic Biases that Fail Adolescents with Chronic Pain Syndromes
Expanding the IDT: Collaboration Between Palliative Care and Child Life
GROUPED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
A Prospective Pilot Study of Longitudinal Parent Anxiety Screening: Implications for Data-Driven Palliative Care
Dignity in the Pediatric Population: A Systematic Review
Perinatal Palliative Care Pilot Study: An Innovative Theory-based Telehealth Intervention
Comparison of an Embedded- and a Referral-Based Inpatient Palliative Care Models and Care Utilization Outcomes
3:30 - 6:30pm
Break with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
4 - 4:45pm
CONTENT FOCUSED HOMEROOMS
DEI
Education
Hospice
Leadership/Program Development
Pediatrics
Professional-in-Training/Early Career
Scientific/QI/Research
Symptoms Assessment and Management
5 - 6:30pm
Faculty Attended Poster Session
Friday, March 22
6:45 - 7:45am
Cambia Sponsored Breakfast Lecture
8 - 8:45am
Introductions and HPNA Award Presentations
8:45 - 9:45am
KEYNOTE SESSION
9:45 - 10:30am
Break with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
10:30 - 11:30am
60-MINUTE LIVE STREAM SESSION
Lotuses Bloom in Murky Waters: Cultivating Resilience and Catalyzing Change in Broken Systems
60-MINUTE HPNA INVITED SESSION
Clinical Lecture Series
Advanced Practice Clinician Palliative Care Fellowship: A Leading-Edge Program
60-MINUTE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Improving Quality of Life for Patients with Cancer and Legal Involvement: Integrating Medical-Legal Partnerships
Five Year Experience of Concurrent Dialysis and Hospice: Outcomes and Perspectives
Targeted Drug Delivery (TDD) for Treatment in Patients Suffering with Cancer-Related Pain
Everything But: A Case Series of Strategies to Care for the Pediatric Chronically, Critically Ill Patient and Family
GROUPED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Learning Outcomes with Infographics vs. Text: Educating Informal Caregivers About Medications
People with Serious Illness Experience Healthcare Inequities in Patient-Clinician Communication
How is Telehealth Used to Increase Access to Specialty Palliative Care? A Systematic Review
Nurse-led Telephonic Case Management Versus Outpatient Palliative Care in Older Adults with Serious Illness
GROUPED PROFESSIONAL-IN-TRAINING/EARLY CAREER PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
“Yes, and…”: Improvisational Theater (Improv) as a Novel Educational Tool in Interdisciplinary Palliative Care
Interdisciplinary Clinician Perspectives on Serious Illness Communication with Systemically Minoritized Groups
Medical Aid in Dying Residency and Fellowship Curriculum
Unintended Consequences of Opioid Policy on Disparities in Pain Management for Older Adults with Serious Illness
GROUPED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Who Receives Chaplaincy Care? Associations with Serious Illness
Palliative Care for Hospitalized Patients with Cancer of Dharmic Religions: A Mixed Methods Study
Spiritual Care Needs of Patients with Cancer Belonging to Dharmic Religions: A Mixed Methods Study
Understanding the Supportive Needs of South Asian Breast Cancer Survivors and their Family Caregivers
11:30am - 1pm
Lunch Break with Exhibits and Poster Viewing
1 - 2pm
60- MINUTE LIVE STREAM SESSION
Unraveling Maternalism: How Relational Autonomy and Informed Non-Dissent Transform Quandaries into Closure
60-MINUTE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Examining Evidence of Disparities in Outcomes Associated with Gender, Race and Ethnicity
GROUPED LEADERSHIP/PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
The HPM Billing Boys Belt the Beatles: Hey Jude, We Can Work It Out!
Medicare Advantage and Serious Illness: Growth, Equity, and Oversight
GROUPED HOSPICE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
The End of the Shift: The Decision to Forego Dialysis and its Ethical Issues
A Tunneled Catheter Placement Program for Community Hospices
GROUPED SYMPTOMS ASSESSMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Who’s Your Mama? The Impact of Pharmacogenomics on Palliative Care
New Drugs and Drug News of 2023
GROUPED PEDIATRICS PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Bridging the Disciplines: Perspectives of Physicians Also Trained in Spiritual Care
Reimagining Respite: An Interactive Session Aimed at Improving Pediatric Respite Care Through Idea Exchange
GROUPED QI ORAL PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Derailed: How to Have a Successful Goals of Care Conversation with Those Living With Borderline Personality Disorder
Shocked at End-of-Life: An Educational Video for Hospice Workers about Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
The Patient-Initiated Note about Goals (PING)
Assessing the Impact of the Preference-Aligned Communication and Treatment (PACT) Project
GROUPED PROFESSIONAL-IN-TRAINING/EARLY CAREER PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Advance Care Planning in a Multidisciplinary Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Clinic
Enhancing Quality of Serious Illness Conversations: Is Communication Skills Training a Must?
Improving Recognition of Caregiver Burnout in Outpatient Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients
GROUPED QI ORAL PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Mortality Risk Predictive Index to Prompt Earlier Palliative Medicine Involvement
A Population Health Approach to Addressing Palliative Care Needs in Outpatients with Gynecologic Malignancies
Pilot Trial of an Educational Immunotherapy Intervention for Patients with Advanced Cancer
Sickle Cell Disease Providers' Perspectives on Palliative Care
2 - 2:30pm
Break
2:30 - 3:30pm
60- MINUTE LIVE STREAM SESSION
LGBTQ+ Inclusive Care
GROUPED LEADERSHIP/PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
A Financially Viable Palliative Care Model Supporting Persons with Dementia Living Alone or with Caregivers
After the Legislation Passes: How California’s Palliative Care Mandate is Being Met Five Years Later
GROUPED EDUCATION PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Patients as Part of the Audience: The Cures Act and Changing Documentation Processes in Palliative Care and Oncology
Redesigning a Serious Illness Conversation Guide to Center Equity: A Community-Engaged Qualitative Process
GROUPED HOSPICE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Hospice Use Patterns of Medicare Beneficiaries with Parkinson Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies
When Differences in Belief Intensify Family Tensions at End of Life
GROUPEDSYMPTOMS ASSESSMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Medical Aid in Dying: Developing Communication Strategies, Staff Support Systems, and Policy for Hospices
Clinical Conversations in Medical Aid in Dying
GROUPED PEDIATRICS PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
More than a Handprint: Interprofessional Perspectives Expand Traditional Views on Pediatric Legacy
Deepening Clinician Understanding of Family Caregivers’ Lived Experiences Caring for Medically Complex Children
GROUPED QI ORAL PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Lessons Learned from a Pharmacist-Led Palliative Care Opioid Deprescribing Pilot Program
Adapting Serious Illness Communication Training for Rehabilitation Clinicians to Improve Care Transitions
Integrating Palliative Medicine Physician Assistant in the Emergency Room
Evaluating the Role of Hospice Coordinator within a Large Health System
GROUPED PROFESSIONAL-IN-TRAINING/EARLY CAREER PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
“Who You are and Where You Live Matters” - Perspectives on Social Determinants and Home Hospice Care during COVID-19
ChatGPT & CTIs: A Study Using Artificial Intelligence in Hospice
Adapting the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) to Palliative Care: Lessons from Psychiatry
Perinatal Palliative Care Fellowship: Development of a Novel Subspeciality Track in Palliative Medicine
GROUPED QI ORAL PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
“No Regrets:” The Pediatric Experience with Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cell Therapy
The “Good Parent” in the NICU: A Pilot Study
Meaningful Display of Legacy Items Among Families Experiencing a Perinatal, Neonatal, or Infant Death
Good Grief Rounds: A Storytelling Based Debrief Method and its Ability to Improve Resilience in Healthcare Workers
3:30 - 4pm
Break
4 - 4:45pm
CONTENT FOCUSED HOMEROOMS
DEI
Education
Hospice
Leadership/Program Development
Pediatrics
Professional-in-Training/Early Career
Scientific/QI/Research
Symptoms Assessment and Management
6 - 7:30pm
Celebrating DEI and Belonging Assembly Reception
Saturday, March 23
8 - 8:30 am
Introductions with AAHPM & HPNA Convocation of Fellows/Science and Research Awards
8:30 - 9:30 am
KEYNOTE SESSION
9:30 - 10 am
Break
10 - 11 am
60- MINUTE LIVE STREAM SESSION
A Deep Dive into Opioid Antagonist Use for Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression (OIRD)
60-MINUTE AAHPM INVITED SESSION
AAHPM Advocacy and Policy Update
60-MINUTE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
The Weight of Being a Surrogate Decision Maker: What Are They Really Carrying?
The Moral Experience of LVAD Deactivation: Implications for Practice
Psychedelics in Palliative Care, Ready for Primetime! Making the Case for Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
From Cradle to Grave: Death Rituals across Cultures and Ages
GROUPED QI ORAL PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Revolutionizing Interprofessional Fellowship Education with a Side-by-Side Post-Graduate Training Model
Fostering a Lifelong Learning Approach to Communication Skills in Medical Students
DNAR: Do Not Address Resuscitation? A Pilot on Periprocedural Code Status Changes for Cardiology Procedures
Transdermal Buprenorphine: A safer option for Dyspnea and Rhinorrhea in End-Stage Pulmonary Disease
GROUPED PROFESSIONAL-IN-TRAINING/EARLY CAREER PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Improving Inpatient Respite Care: A Collaboration with ALS Patients and Caregivers
A Wound Too Deep: Navigating End-of-Life Care for a Young Woman with Extensive Wound Care Needs
Palliative Care in Interstitial Lung Disease: With the “Who,” We Need the What, When, Where, and How.
Using Transdermal Buprenorphine to Treat Chronic Pruritus in a Young Adult with Lymphoma and Anxiety
GROUPED QI ORAL PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Impacts of Per Diem Payment Rate Rebasing on the Medicare Hospice Benefit
Productivity in Palliative Care: What is a "Normal" Workload for a Palliative Care Provider?
Concurrent Use of Dialysis and Hospice Under Fee-for-Service Medicare
Ethical Issues Faced by Health Care Professionals in the Provision of Palliative Care in Kenya
11:15 am - 12:15 pm
60- MINUTE LIVE STREAM SESSION
HPC Voices: Collaborative Voices from the Field
GROUPED LEADERSHIP/PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
“Buffalo Face the Storm:” Lessons Learned from an American Indian Palliative Care Community Health Worker Program
Weaving the Outpatient Tapestry: A Model of Supportive Care Rounds Across Institutions and Teams
GROUPED EDUCATION PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Creating Required Palliative Care Exposure in Internal Medicine Residency: Curriculum Development and Evaluation
The Opportunities and Challenges of Establishing Palliative Care in Sickle Cell Disease: What’s Our Role?
GROUPED HOSPICE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
AI Writing CTIs?: Incorporating Artificial Intelligence within Hospice
Tales of the Unexpected: Understanding and Responding to Bleeding in the Hospice Setting.
GROUPED SYMPTOMS ASSESSMENT PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Protocol for Deactivation of Left Ventricular Devices
Spasticity Evaluation and Management: a Practical Primer for the Palliative Care Professional
GROUPED PEDIATRICS PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Not Just Small Adults: The Birth and Early Years of a Pediatric Hospice Program
“Somebody Hug the Interpreter”: Enhancing Pediatric Palliative Care Partnership with Medical Interpreters
GROUPED QI ORAL PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Optimizing Palliative Medicine Support for Liver Transplant Candidates
Quality of Life, Symptom Burden, and Prognostic Perceptions Among Patients with Decompensated Cirrhosis
Qualitative Study of Longitudinal Specialty-Aligned Palliative Care for Inpatients with Advanced Liver Disease
GROUPED PROFESSIONAL-IN-TRAINING/EARLY CAREER PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
I Wish My Doctor Knew: Perspectives on Hope and Meaning in AYAs with Cancer
The PERCEIVE Study: Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Perspectives on Roles as Psychosocial Interventionists
The ROAR Score: Quantifying Risk of Acute Return to the Hospital in Pediatric Hospice Patients
Connecting Residents and Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment Using a Novel Personal History Tool
GROUPED QI ORAL PODIUM PRESENTATIONS
Embedding Palliative Care (PC) in Nephrology Clinic: The Role of PC in Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease
Terminal Ventilator Liberation in Neuromuscular Disease
Goals of Care Conversations between Neurologists and Hospitalized Patients Suffering Stroke
1pm
Assembly Adjourns