Pediatric Palliative Care
“Quality of Life for the Children”
Program

Friday, September 12, 2008		Speakers
8:00	Registration
8:30am	Welcome Remarks	Susan Rogers, MS, BSN, RN Executive Director, DCPPCC Bette Keltner, PhD, BSN, Dean Georgetown University, School of Nursing and Health Studies Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, Dean, Georgetown University, School of Medicine
8:45am	Introduction to the Conference	Carlos Gomez, MD, PhD, Medical Director, DCPPCC
9:00am	“The Neuroscience of Pediatric Pain: The ethical imperative of excellent pain control”	James Giordano, PhD Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University
10:00am	“Acute Pain Management in Pediatric Palliative Care”	Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD, Children’s Hospitals of Minnesota
11:00am	Break
11:15 pm	“Management of distressing symptoms at the end-of-life of children”	Stefan Friedrichsdorf, MD, Children’s Hospitals of Minnesota
12:15pm	Lunch
1:30pm	“Collaborative communication in pediatric palliative care”	Chris Feudtner, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2:30pm	“The social worker as clinician”	Stacy Remke, LCSW, Children’s Hospital of Minnesota
3:30pm	Break
3:45pm	“Developing a hospital-based palliative care program for children: The experience from Boston”	Joanne Wolfe, MD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
4:45pm	Closing Remarks	Susan K. Rogers, MS, RN

	Saturday, September 13, 2008
8:00am	Registration
8:30am	Opening Remarks
8:45am	Essentials of Pediatric Ethics	Edmund Pellegrino, MD Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University
9:15am	Pediatric Ethics Grand Rounds	Edmund Pellegrino MD
10:15am	Break
10:30	Cultural Pediatric Ethics Round Tables
11:45am	Lunch
1:15pm	“Why do children suffer? The question of theodicy”	Carlos Gomez.MD, PhD DCPPCC Carol Taylor, PhD, RN Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Amani Babgi, RN, PhD National Military Hospital, Jedda, Saudi Arabia
2:30pm	Spirituality and Personal Involvement: Health Care as a form of Ministry	Christina Puchalski, MD GW Institute for Spirituality and Health
3:30pm	Break
3:45Pm	Spirituality as Self Care: Centering Prayer	Rev. Edward Bauman The Virginia Hospital Center
4:45pm	Closing Remarks	Susan Rogers, MS,BSN, RN, CHPN
5:00pm	End

Pediatric Palliative Care “Quality of Life for the Children” Program

Pediatric Palliative Care
“Quality of Life for the Children”
Program