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Full Schedule

  • Thursday, March 5, 2026
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm PST
    Lactation Lounge
  • 6:30am - 7:00pm PST
    Registration
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm PST
    Quiet Space/Labyrinth
  • 6:45am - 7:45am PST
    Integrating Spirituality into Clinical Practice: Breakfast with The GW Institute for Spiritualty and Health (GWish)
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    Early Career/Professionals in Training Orientation
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    AAHPM Academic Palliative Medicine Council Meeting
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    AAHPM Hospice Medicine Council Meeting
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    AAHPM Pediatrics Council Meeting
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    HPNA Pediatric SIG
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    HPNA Research and Emerging Scholars SIG
  • 8:00am - 8:30am PST
    Introductions & AAHPM Awards
  • 8:30am - 9:30am PST
    Clear on Purpose
  • 9:30am - 10:30am PST
    Break with Exhibits and Poster
  • 10:30am - 12:00pm PST
    Bogetz Lecture: Frontline Mental Health Care for Anxiety: Optimizing the Interprofessional Team across the Continuum
  • 10:30am - 10:45am PST
    Ethical Challenges in Forgoing Nutrition and Hydration in Infants with Severe Neonatal Encephalopathy
  • 10:30am - 10:45am PST
    Timing and Documentation of LVAD Deactivation Conversations in Destination Therapy
  • 10:30am - 10:50am PST
    Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial of Advance Care Planning for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Bridging Gaps in Care: A Framework for Building a Community-Based Pediatric Palliative Care Program
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Connecting with Compassion: National Strategies for Telepalliative Care
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Five Lessons from Malpractice Cases in Hospice and Palliative Care
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Rethinking Antimicrobials in End-of-Life Care: Navigating Evidence, Ethics, and Practices
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    What About Us? Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse People
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    When Will My Depression Get Better?: Current Status of Rapid-onset Antidepressants in Hospice and Palliative Care.
  • 10:45am - 11:00am PST
    Charlie’s Way Toolkit: Perspectives from Bereaved Parents and Staff on Postmortem Care
  • 10:45am - 11:00am PST
    Facilitating Autonomy and Understanding: Engaging Adults with Autism in Serious Illness Decision-Making
  • 10:50am - 11:10am PST
    Long-Term Outcomes of Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment and their Care Partners
  • 11:00am - 11:15am PST
    Sleep No More: A Case of Severe Insomnia Due to Injury to the Reticular Activating System From Glioblastoma Multiforme
  • 11:00am - 11:15am PST
    What Families Wish They Had Known: Research on Immediate End-of-Life Care Needs in Cancer Patients
  • 11:10am - 11:30am PST
    Improving Hospice Dementia Care: Reducing Antipsychotic Use Through Implementation of a Dementia Care Program
  • 11:15am - 11:30am PST
    Considerations for Care of Patients in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) Custody
  • 11:15am - 11:30am PST
    Making Serious Illness Conversations Happen: Understanding Implementation Through Teamwork
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Voices for Equity: Tackling Health Equity Challenges Through Multidisciplinary Collaboration
  • 11:30am - 12:00pm PST
    Safeguarding Wealth: Lawsuit Prevention and Tax Strategies
  • 11:30am - 1:00pm PST
    Lunch with Exhibits and Posters
  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm PST
    International Scholars Presentation
  • 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
    Ethics SIG Meeting
  • 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
    Program Leader SIG Meeting
  • 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
    Psychosocial & Mental Health SIG Meeting
  • 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
    Rural SIG Meeting
  • 12:15pm - 1:00pm PST
    Telehealth & Technology Forum
  • 1:00pm - 3:30pm PST
    Deep Dive into the Evolving Policy Environment
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
    The Soft Surrender, Film Viewing
  • 1:00pm - 1:20pm PST
    Trends in Hospice Use among Older Adults with Dementia and Cancer by Race and Ethnicity, 2011–2021
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    A Decade of Palliative Care-Focused Virtual Clinical Skills Training
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Calm your Nerves: Clinical Tips from Neuropalliative Experts to Ease your Neurophobia
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Listening Across Cultures: A Framework for Cross Cultural Serious Illness Communication
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Reinvigorating Hospice Care through Standards, Data, Branding, and Quality-based Competition
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Thriving in Transition: Empowering Mid-Career Clinicians in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
    HAPC Voices
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
    Pediatric State of the Science
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
    Serious Illness at the Margins: Providing Palliative Care to People with Serious Mental Illnesses
  • 1:20pm - 1:40pm PST
    Usability Testing of a Hospice Live Discharge Protocol (LDP)
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    Effective Strategies for Operationalizing Goals of Care Documentation: Lessons, Advice, and Key Messages
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    Lean on Me: Rehabilitation and Durable Medical Equipment in Serious Neurologic Illness
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    Star Witness: Physician Roles in Audits and Appeals
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    Supporting the Research Pipeline: The First Year of the AAHPM Serious Illness Research Consultancy Center
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    Tools for Trust Building: Developing a Serious Illness Conversation Primer
  • 1:40pm - 2:00pm PST
    Symptom Burden and Hospice Use of Nursing Home Residents Before Death
  • 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
    Break with Exhibits and Posters
  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm PST
    The Soft Surrender, Film Viewing
  • 2:30pm - 2:45pm PST
    Essential Components of Emergency Care Plans for Medically Complex Pediatric Patients
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    Bridging the Hesitation Gap: A Motivational Interviewing Approach to Earlier Goals of Care Conversations
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    Caring With Confidence: A Guided Approach to End-of-Life Care
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    Delirium 2.0: What’s New and What Works for Palliative Care and Hospice Patients?
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    Home Run: How Lessons Learned Using Dexmedetomidine in the Inpatient Hospice Unit Allowed for its Use in Home Hospice
  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm PST
    Beyond the Basics: Practical Skills for LGBTQIA+ Affirming Palliative and End-of-Life Care
  • 2:45pm - 3:00pm PST
    Coincidentia Oppositorum Bridging Obstetric Anesthesia and Palliative Care
  • 3:00pm - 3:15pm PST
    Views of Mental Health Professionals on Palliative Care
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    AI Guys Version 2.0
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    Beyond the Prescription: Supporting Families During and After Medical Aid In Dying
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    Breaking the Cycle: Complex Persistent Opioid Dependence and Buprenorphine in Chronic Sickle Cell Pain
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    Music’s Superpower: Incorporating Live Therapeutic Music into Your Hospice Care
  • 3:15pm - 3:30pm PST
    Emergency Department–Embedded Palliative Care Consultations: A Feasibility Pilot Study
  • 2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
    Communication, Shared Decision-Making, and Education
  • 2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
    Equity, Access, and Community Engagement
  • 2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
    Healthcare Utilization, Palliative Care Service Delivery, and Symptom Burden
  • 4:00pm - 4:30pm PST
    AAHPM Essentials
  • 4:00pm - 7:00pm PST
    Job Fair in Exhibit Hall
  • 5:00pm - 6:30pm PST
    Faculty Attended Poster Session
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    DEI Homeroom
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    EC/PIT Homeroom
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    Education Homeroom
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    Hospice Homeroom
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    Innovations Homeroom
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    Leadership/PD Homeroom
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    Peds Homeroom
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    Symptoms Homeroom
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    Accessibility, Disability & Inclusion Forum
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    ESAP PPF Forum
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    Latino PPF Forum
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    LGTBQ+ SIG Meeting
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    Richard Payne Black PPF Forum