The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
11th Annual Paediatric Palliative Care Symposium
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Updates, Elder Wisdom, CAM, Mindfulness
For more information http://www.schn.health.nsw.gov.au/health-professionals/professional-resources
For Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Professionals
Thursday 5 March
International Guest Speaker: Lonnie Zeltzer, M.D.
Lonnie Zeltzer, M.D. is a Distinguished Professor of Paediatrics, Anaesthesiology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Director of the Paediatric Pain and Comfort Care Program. Her UCLA pain program
received a 2009 Clinical Centres of Excellence in Pain Management Award from the American Pain Society and a 2012 award from the
Southern California Pain Initiative. She was Associate Director of the Patients and Survivors’ Program in the UCLA Cancer Centre and
is on the steering committee of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. Her research includes yoga and other mind-body therapies in
chronic pain control, as well as mechanisms of pain and central pain control in childhood. She has over 350 publications on pain,
cancer survivors or complementary therapies.
Program
Date
Time
Venue
Thursday, 5 March 2015
8.30am – 4.20pm (Registration from 8am)
Lorimer Dods Lecture Theatre
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Cnr Hawkesbury & Hainsworth Avenue, Westmead NSW 2145
0800-0830
0830-0900
0900-0930
0930-1000
1000-1030
1030-1100
1100-1200
Mindfulness Workshops will also be conducted by
Lonnie Zeltzer, M.D. on Friday, 6 March 2015.
Check the website
http://www.schn.health.nsw.gov.au/healthprofessionals/professional-resources for full details
and registration form.
Registration
Updates
Bear Cottage Update (Narelle Martin)
Very Special Kids Update (Sarah Hosking)
Reflections on social work practice in
paediatric palliative care
(Jess Jamieson)
What I have learnt about the political
process and palliative care (Sue Hanson)
Morning Tea
1200-1300
1300-1400
Lunch
The evidence for complementary and alternative
medicines in paediatrics (Lonnie Zeltzer)
Palliative sedation in children
(Nicole Armitage)
Physician assisted suicide and palliative
care (Rod Macleod)
1510-1540
Paediatric palliative care and the struggle to find
wisdom (Jen Hyson, RCH Melbourne)
The lessons of a long medical practice in palliative
care and the wisdom gained (Rosalie Shaw)
Afternoon tea
1540-1620
Mindfulness in clinical practice (Lonnie Zeltzer)
1620
Conclusion
Brief break
1410-1440
1440-1510
Faculty
Nicole Armitage, Palliative Care Fellow,
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Sue Hanson, National Director Clinical
Services, Little Company of Mary Health
Care & Co-Chair NSW ACI Palliative Care
Network
Sarah Hosking, CEO, Very Special Kids,
Victoria
Jen Hynson, Consultant Paediatrician,
Victorian Paediatric Palliative Care
Program, The Royal Children’s Hospital
(Melbourne)
Jess Jamieson, Senior Social Worker,
Paediatric Palliative Care Service, Starship
Children’s Health, Auckland, New Zealand
Rod Macleod, Senior Staff Specialist in
Palliative Care and Conjoint Professor of
the University of Sydney
Narelle Martin, Nurse Unit Manager, Bear
Cottage
Rosalie Shaw, Senior Consultant, Palliative
Care
Lonnie Zeltzer, Distinguished Professor of
Paediatrics, Anaesthesiology, Psychiatry and
Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA and the Director
of the Paediatric Pain and Comfort Care
Program
Annual Palliative Care Symposium
Thursday 5 March 2015
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Conference supported by The Shangri-la Hotel, Sydney