April 25-27, 2004, 14th Annual Provincial Conference on Palliative and End-of-Life Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sponsored by Humber College and the Ontario Palliative Care Association. FMI contact Teresa Sottile, Conference Manager, Humber College Corporate & Continuing Education (Rm. NB111), 205 Humber College Blvd, Toronto, ON M9W 5L7; telephone 416-675-6622 ext. 4559; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.palliativecare.humber.ca.
April 27-May 4, 2004, The Program in Palliative Care Education & Practice, Part 1, Boston, MA. Sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education and the HMS Center for Palliative Care. FMI contact HMS Center for Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Founders House 606 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114; telephone 617-724-9509; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare.
April 29-May 2, 2004, Annual ONS Congress, Anaheim, CA. Sponsored by the Oncology Nursing Society, 501 Holiday Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15220-2749; telephone 412-921-7373; Web http://www.ons.org.
May 2004
May 1-6, 2004, INS 2004 Annual Meeting and Industrial Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT. Sponsored by the Infusion Nurses Society, 220 Norwood Park South, Norwood, MA 02062. FMI telephone 781-440-9408, Web http://www.ins1.org.
May 6-9, 2004, Annual Joint Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society/Canadian Pain Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Sponsored by APS/CPS. Abstract submission opens October 1; deadline November 17. FMI contact the American Pain Society, 4700 W. Lake Ave, Glenview, IL 60025; telephone 847-375-4715; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.ampainsoc.org/meeting/.
May 12-15, 2004, Finding Our Voice: The Power of Oncology Social Work, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Association of Oncology Social Work, 1211 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19107. FMI telephone 215-599-6093; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.aosw.org/Conference04/call_for_abstracts.html.
June 2004
June 3-6, 2004, Third Research Forum of the European Association for Palliative Care, Stressa Maggiore Lake, Italy. FMI contact EAPC Office, National Cancer Institute, Via G Venezian 1, 20133 Milan, Italy; telephone +39 02-2390-3392; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.eapcnet.org/research2004/.
June 8-10, 2004, "Incontro Internationale"-Exploring Connections, Palliative Care Nursing Research Conference, Prato, Tuscany, Italy. Sponsored by Monash University, Australia, and Kings College, London, UK. FMI contact Margaret O'Connor, Vivian Bullwinkel Chair in Nursing, Palliative Care, School of Nursing, Monash University, Peninsula Campus; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.nursingconf.monash.org/.
June 9-11, 2004, Art and Science of Palliative Nursing, Newton, MA. Sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Founders House 606, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114. FMI contact HMS Center for Palliative Care, telephone 617-724-9509; e-mail [email protected]; Web: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare.
June 23-27, 2004, Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, Boston, MA. Sponsored by Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education, 25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115. FMI telephone 617-384-8600; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://cme.med.harvard.edu.
July 2004
July 16-18, 2004, Taking Leadership in Dementia Care: 12th National Alzheimer's Disease Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association, 225 North Michigan Ave, Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601-7633. FMI visit the Web site: http://www.alz.org/educationconference2004/overview.htm.
August 2004
August 14-16, 2004, ELNEC Pediatric Palliative Care Training Program, Pasadena, CA. Sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium, One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 530, Washington, DC 20036. FMI telephone: 202-463-6930; fax: 202-785-8320.
September 2004
September 19-23, 2004, 15th International Congress on Care of the Terminally III, Montreal, Canada. Sponsored by the Palliative Care Division, Departments of Medicine and Oncology, McGill University School of Medicine, Gerald Bronfman Centre, 546 Pine Ave West, Montreal, PQ, Canada. FMI contact Events International Meeting Planners, 759 Victoria Square, Suite 300, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Y 2J7; telephone 514-286-0855; e-mail: [email protected]; Web http://www.eventsintl.com/PAL2004/registration/index.html.
September 30-October 2, 2004, 19th Management and Leadership Conference, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 1700 Diagonal Rd, Suite 625, Alexandria, VA 22314. FMI telephone 703-837-1500; Web http://www.nhpco.org.
November 2004
November 10-13, 2004, Innovative Cancer Therapy for Tomorrow: Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium XXII, New York, NY. Sponsored by the Chemotherapy Foundation and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology. FMI contact Jaclyn Silverman, Conference Coordinator, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, Box 1079, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029; telephone 212-241-6772; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.mssm.edu/tcf.
November 10-16, 2004, The Program in Palliative Care Education & Practice, Part 2, Boston, MA. Sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education and the HMS Center for Palliative Care. FMI contact HMS Center for Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Founders House 606, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114; telephone 617-724-9509; e-mail [email protected]; Web http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare.
January 2005
January 19, 2005, Preconference Events of the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, New Orleans, LA. Cosponsored by AAHPM and HPNA. FMI contact HPNA, One Penn Center West, Suite 229, Pittsburgh, PA 15276; tele 412-787-9301; Web http://www.hpna.org.; e-mail [email protected].
January 20-23, 2005, Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, New Orleans, LA. Cosponsored by AAHPM and HPNA. FMI contact HPNA, One Penn Center West, Suite 229, Pittsburgh, PA 15276; tele 412-787-9301; Web http://www.hpna.org.; e-mail [email protected].
April 2005
April 14-16, 2005, Disseminating End-of-Life Education to Cancer Centers (DELEtCC), Pasadena, CA. Sponsored by the City of Hope National Medical Center, Department of Nursing Research and Education, 1550 E. Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010. FMI, visit http://deletcc.coh.org.
April 28-May 1, 2005, Annual ONS Congress, Orlando, FL. Sponsored by the Oncology Nursing Society, 501 Holiday Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15220-2749; telephone 412-921-7373; Web http://www.ons.org.