COMPASSIONATE CARE: ACROSS THE CONTINUUM
Strengthening Understanding – Enhancing Care
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Welcome
Stephanie Karapita - CEO,
Casey House
Keynote Address: The Importance of Care
Tilda Shalof,
RN, Author of the Nurses
Story and Making of a Nurse
A Panel Discussion:
Sensitive
Practice - Reflections and Recommendations - Enhancing Care for Vulnerable Populations
Gillian Bone,
Physiotherapist, Canadian
Working Group on HIV / Rehabilitation
Elisse Zack,
Executive Director, Canadian Working
Group on HIV / Rehabilitation (CWGHR)
HIV/AIDS and Dementia
Dr Mark Halman,
Director, HIV Psychiatry
Program, Scientist, Inner City Health Research Unit, St. Michaels Hospital ,
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Principles of Infection Prevention
Vivia McCalla,
RN, Infection Control Resource
Nurse and Team Leader, Community Programs, Casey House
HIV/AIDS – An Overview for
Health Care Providers
Lisa Shishis,
RN, Community Programs, Casey
House
Medical Management
Dr. David Fletcher, Program Director of the HIV/Hepatitis C Preceptorship Program
Maintaining Excellence in Health Care for People Living with HIV / AIDS
Wednesday, September
24th, 2008
Keynote Speech: Dr. Mark
Wainberg
HIV/AIDS: Progress over the last 20 Years; Challenges for
the next 20.
Dr. Wainbergjust completed a
two-year tenure as president of the International AIDS Society, the
world's largest organization of AIDS researchers and clinicians. He is the
director of the McGill AIDS Centre and is currently working on the development
of an HIV vaccine.
A Panel Discussion: Moving Towards Wellness
From the Canadian Working
Group on HIV and Rehabilitation (CWGHR)
Moderated by: Elisse
Zack,Executive Director, Canadian
Working Group on HIV and Rehabilitation
Reflections and recommendations on supporting wellness.
HIV/AIDS Specialist: Dr.Gordon Arbess
Dr.
Arbess specializes in HIV primary care at the Health
Centre at 410 Sherbourne - St. Michael’s Hospital,
and teaches at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Access an informed view
on current medical concerns for those living with HIV/AIDS.
Update:ASO 411
Mark
Fisher, OHTN, TCPI Information and Access Working Group
Mark Fisher will introduce an AIDS Service Organization
(ASO) website that provides access to resources for people living with HIV/AIDS and
their care providers.
Pain and Palliative Care for those living with HIV/AIDS
Cindy Shobbrook, RN, MN, ACNP
& Lisa Shishis, RN
Cindy Shobbrook and Lisa Shishis,
Palliative Pain and Symptom Management Consultants
Become more familiar with
the management of pain in cancer and HIV/AIDS care.