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Full Schedule

  • Friday, March 6, 2026
  • 6:30am - 5:00pm PST
    Registration
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm PST
    Lactation Lounge
  • 7:00am - 5:00pm PST
    Quiet Space/Labyrinth
  • 6:45am - 7:45am PST
    Navigating Change, Fostering Innovation: Leadership Excellence in Hospice and Palliative Care
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    Cancer & Cancer Treatments SIG Meeting
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    Grief & Bereavement SIG Meeting
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    Research SIG Meeting
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    Self-Care Forum
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    SUPAT Forum
  • 8:00am - 8:30am PST
    Introductions & HPNA Awards
  • 8:30am - 9:30am PST
    Palliative Care for Persons With Late-stage Alzheimer's and Related Dementias and Their Caregivers
  • 9:30am - 10:30am PST
    Break with Exhibits and Posters
  • 10:30am - 10:45am PST
    Global Barriers to Pediatric Palliative Care: A Systematic Review
  • 10:30am - 10:50am PST
    Specialist palliative care vs usual care in cystic fibrosis: results of the InSPIRe:CF multisite trial
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Budgeting for the Soul: The Cost Conscious Case for Adding Spiritual Care to the Palliative IDT
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Bup or bust! Expanding safe and effective use of buprenorphine in the adolescent population
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Cannabis in the Clinic: How to Implement an Embedded Medical Cannabis Program in an Academic Palliative Care Practice
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    End of Life Symptom Management: Emergencies in Palliative Medicine—A Novel Simulation-Based Education Program
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    From Prompt to Practice: Real-World Applications of Generative AI in Specialty Palliative Care
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    Speed Dating with the Pharmacy Ladies: Pearls from the Wild Side of Palliative Pharmacotherapy
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    When Hospice Referrals Are Placed to Improve Hospital Mortality Metrics
  • 10:45am - 11:00am PST
    Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children Dying of Cancer: A Retrospective EHR Review
  • 10:50am - 11:10am PST
    Extending Specialty Palliative Care’s Reach: The Use of Comfort Care Order Sets
  • 11:00am - 11:15am PST
    Characterizing Communication Strategies to Open the Door to Difficult Conversations in Pediatric Serious Illness
  • 11:10am - 11:30am PST
    A pragmatic model for cultural adaptation of serious illness communication skills training
  • 11:15am - 11:30am PST
    Potential of Team-Based Approaches to Improve Goals of Care Conversations in Primary Care Settings
  • 10:30am - 11:30am PST
    AAHPM Early Career in Hospice & Palliative Care Medicine
  • 11:30am - 1:00pm PST
    Faculty Attended Poster Session
  • 11:30am - 1:00pm PST
    Lunch with Exhibits and Posters
  • 12:45pm - 1:00pm PST
    Passport Drawing
  • 1:30pm - 5:00pm PST
    Poster Pick Up
  • 1:00pm - 3:30pm PST
    Deep Dive into Opioid Conversion Calculations and Breakthrough Pain: Innovation Informing the Art and Science
  • 1:00pm - 1:15pm PST
    Unlocking Relief: Dextromethorphan-Quinidine as a Palliative Intervention for Jaw Clonus in ALS
  • 1:00pm - 1:20pm PST
    Inpatient Palliative Care Reduces 30- and 90-Day Readmissions in Decompensated Cirrhosis: A Nationwide Analysis
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Consensus Guidelines: Respiratory Changes in Home Hospice
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Home is Where the Heart Is: Experiences of an AHA-accredited Hospice Program
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Integrating Pharmacogenomics into Pediatric Palliative Care
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Introducing Clarity into Moral Distress Discernment: A 5-step Intergrated Approach for Palliative Care Leaders
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Smart Tools, Compassionate Care: Navigating AI in Hospice and Palliative Training
  • 1:00pm - 1:25pm PST
    Suzetrigine: What We Know and What We Don't
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
    Understanding the Landscape of Palliative Care Integration in the Care of People Affected by Sickle Cell Disease
  • 1:15pm - 1:30pm PST
    Intermittent Lidocaine Infusion for Refractory Neuropathic Cancer Pain
  • 1:20pm - 1:40pm PST
    Double Burden, Double Delay: Multimorbidity and Missed Opportunities for Timely Palliative Care
  • 1:30pm - 1:45pm PST
    Buprenorphine for Refractory HIV-Associated Peripheral Neuropathy
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    "Can't You Just Make Him Sleep?" The Trials and Tribulations of Pediatric Palliative Sedation
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    AI in the Gray Zone: Ethics of End-of-Life Resource Allocation in Language Models
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    DORA The Explorer: Exploring Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonists for Insomnia in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    Reducing Rural Palliative Care Gap: Partnering with Community Members with Cancer & Caregivers to Build the Program
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    Rising Like a Phoenix: Leadership Tips for Restoring Inpatient & Outpatient Palliative Care Teams' Morale & Purpose
  • 1:30pm - 1:55pm PST
    When Self Harm Becomes Terminal : The Ethics Of Decision-Making In Self Induced Terminal Illness
  • 1:40pm - 2:00pm PST
    Problems with Sensitivity, Accuracy and Bias of the Z51.5 Code as an Indicator of Specialist Palliative Care
  • 1:45pm - 2:00pm PST
    Refractory Agitation in Advanced Huntington’s Disease: Palliative Management at End of Life
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
    Insights from Emerging Leaders in Palliative Nursing Research
  • 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
    Break
  • 2:30pm - 2:45pm PST
    Development and Implementation of a Palliative Care Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents
  • 2:30pm - 2:50pm PST
    Associations Between Social Risk Factors and Advanced Childhood Cancer Care Quality and Experience
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    Bridging the Gap: Expanding General Inpatient Transitions to the Pediatric Population
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    Buprenorphine for the Management of Cancer Related Pain and Facilitation of Survivorship Transition
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    Chew on This: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for Swallowing Support at the End of Life
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    From Pathophys to Prognosis: Teaching Oncology Concepts to Elevate Interdisciplinary Palliative Care
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    From Pilot to Practice: Scaling a Supportive Oncology Innovation Across a Cancer Center
  • 2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
    Reflection & Resilience’: A Structured Team-Based Intervention to Address Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm PST
    Bridging Gaps in End-of-Life Care: A Statewide EMS Hospice Protocol for Pennsylvania
  • 2:45pm - 3:00pm PST
    Medical Education Considerations regarding Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD)
  • 2:50pm - 3:10pm PST
    “Well, how many times can I ask for it?” Parent perspectives of social needs support during childhood cancer care
  • 3:00pm - 3:15pm PST
    Bridging the Gap: Understanding Barriers in Transitions from Inpatient to Outpatient Palliative Care
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    Buprenorphine as First-Line Opioid for Pain in Palliative Care: When, How, and For Whom?
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    From ICU to IPU: Bridging the Gap in End-of-Life Care
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    Impact of an Interprofessional Trauma-Informed Palliative Care Workshop
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    Navigating Changes in Clinical Practice: Lessons from Supporting Buprenorphine Prescribing
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    PPC Catalyst Program: Model for Sustained Culture Change Across Specialties
  • 3:00pm - 3:25pm PST
    Precision in Pediatric Palliative Care: Looking Ahead to the Next Twenty-Five Years
  • 3:10pm - 3:30pm PST
    Prognostic Communication and End-of-Life Preparation in Pediatric Oncology: a Mixed-Methods Study
  • 3:15pm - 3:30pm PST
    Reflective Experiences on Integration of Palliative Care in the MICU at A Safety Net Hospital
  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm PST
    Washington Update: Federal Policy Developments Shaping Hospice & Palliative Care in 2026
  • 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
    Scientific Research Homeroom
  • 4:00pm - 4:45pm PST
    Symptoms Homeroom
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    Early Investigators Forum
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    Education SIG Meeting
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    Global SIG Meeting
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    Neuropalliative SIG Meeting
  • 5:00pm - 5:45pm PST
    SUDD SIG Meeting