The virtual public workshop will provide a venue to explore the challenges and opportunities of advance care planning, acknowledge and highlight divergent viewpoints, and examine what is empirically known and not known about advance care planning and its outcomes. The workshop will identify areas where more data and research are needed to fill evidentiary gaps, as well as identify potential approaches to improve the practice of advance care planning (ACP).

The workshop will be held over two webinars on October 26, 2020 and November 2, 2020.

The first webinar will feature two sessions:

The Paradox of ACP

Moderator:

JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, MBA, MSN, FAAN, Genesis Healthcare

Speakers:

Maurine Stuart, Volunteer, National Patient Advocate Foundation

Wyvonia Woods Harris, Volunteer, National Patient Advocate Foundation

Bernard Lo, MD, President Emeritus, The Greenwall Foundation

Rebecca Sudore, MD, Professor, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Interpreting the Evidence Base for Advance Care Planning

Moderator:

Susan E. Hickman, PhD, Director, IU Center for Aging Research, Regenstrief Institute, Professor, Indiana University Schools of Nursing & Medicine, Cornelius and Yvonne Pettinga Chair in Aging Research, Co-Director, IUPUI RESPECT Signature Center

Speakers:

Daren Heyland, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Professor, Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Queen’s University School of Medicine

Sean Morrison, MD, Ellen and Howard C. Katz Professor and Chair, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Director, National Palliative Care Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Patricia Bomba, MD, MACP, FRCP, Vice President & Medical Director, Geriatrics, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield

Carole Montgomery, MD, FHM, MHSA, Executive Medical Director, Respecting Choices