End-of-Life Care End-of-Life Care Date: 2nd September 2010 to 11th November 2010 Invited Speakers: (in alphabetical order): Every Thursday evening (7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) Dr KS Chan, Deputy HCE/Chief of Service, Pulmonary & Palliative Care Unit, Haven of Hope Hospital Venue: Conference Room 2, 1/F, Shatin Hospital Professor Timothy Kwok, Professor, Department of Medicine & 33 A Kung Kok Street, Ma On Shan, Shatin, N.T. Therapeutics, CUHK; Director, Jockey Club Centre for Positive Ageing Target participants: Dr Raymond Lo, Cluster Coordinator (palliative care) NTEC; Chief of Doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, social workers and all health Service, Bradbury Hospice; Consultant, Geriatrics and Palliative care professionals interested in end-of-life care Medicine, Shatin Hospital Dr Michael Sham, Consultant in-charge, Palliative Medical Unit, Grantham Hospital Maximum number of Participants: 80 Dr CY Tse, the Honorary Consultant of Hospice Unit, UCH Dr Doris MW Tse, Chief of Service, Department of Medicine & Course Fees: $1,000 (10 sessions) Geriatrics, Caritas Medical Centre Dr Vincent Tse, Honorary Advisor, H.K. Society of Palliative Medicine Content: Professor Jean Woo, Chair Professor of Medicine; Head, Division of Topic Speaker Date Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, CUHK; 01. Introduction: principles and philosophy of palliative Dr Raymond Lo Sep 02 Hon Chief of Service (G), Shatin Hospital and end of life care 02. What is a good death? Patients’ perspectives: Prof Jean Woo Sep 09 dignity, autonomy, their expectations of health care professionals 03. Breaking bad news: a Chinese perspective Dr CY Tse Sep 16 04. Ethical issues: decision-making, advance Dr CY Tse Sep 30 Registration/enquires: directives, assisted death Contact : Ms Dora Pang 05. Principles of pain control and use of opioids Dr M Sham Oct 07 Tel : 2252 8764 06. Symptom control in advance cancer patients Dr KS Chan Oct 14 Fax : 2604 8091 07. End-of-life care in non-cancer setting Dr Raymond Lo Oct 21 E-mail : [email protected] Address : CUHK, Room 426, 4/F., School of Public Health 08. End-of-life for older patients Prof T Kwok Oct 28 Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T. 09. Professionals' reflections in facing death and Dr Vincent Tse Nov 04 Website : http://www.mect.cuhk.edu.hk/taughtpostgraduate.html dying http://healthyageing.sph.cuhk.edu.hk 10. Grief, bereavement, psychosocial and spiritual Dr Doris Tse Nov 11 issues Registration Form: End-of-Life Care Name: Prof/Dr/Mr/Mrs/Ms_______________________________________________ (in Capital) Profession : ________________________________________________________ Tel: __________________Fax: ________________E-mail: ______________________ Organization: __________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: _______________________________________________________ End-of-Life Care Workshops ______________________________________________________________________ Jointly organized by Department of Medicine & Therapeutics Course Fee : $1,000 (10 sessions) Faculty of Medicine Please make a cheque payable to “The Chinese University of Hong Kong” The Chinese University of Hong Kong Bank: ________________________ Cheque Number: ______________________ and Palliative Care Unit, Shatin Hospital Please reply on or before 2nd August 2010. Once registered, the course fee is non-refundable. Registration Procedure: Please send your completed registration form and a crossed cheque to: Ms Dora Pang End-of-Life Care The Chinese University of Hong Kong Room 426, 4/F., School of Public Health Prince of Wales Hospital Shatin, N.T. Date: __________________ Signature: _____________________________ .