Looking Ahead to 2018 for Palliative Care and Hospice

by Christian Sinclair

In 2016, I made a list of upcoming events in palliative care and hospice. For some reason, it fell off my list of to-do's in 2017, but I wanted to bring it back because it is good to see all the important things happening in our field. Here are some of the things to put on your calendar right now, so you do not miss them! If you want to help out with maintaining this, it would be great to have a colleague and it doesn't take that long, please email me (below). We could even go crazy with the Google Calendar and make different ones that are relevant to different disciplines/interests, international and add submission deadlines for conferences. Technology makes this simple, I just need a few more hands.

To access these dates via Google Calendar (HTML), click here. (still adding some of the below over the next few days)

Winter (Jan, Feb)

• HPM Board Certification Registration Period Opens (ABIM) - Jan 8, 2018-Jun 14, 2018
• Hospice Medical Director Certification Board Application Open - Dec 12, 2017- Mar 6, 2018

Spring (Mar, April, May)

• Cambia Sojourns Scholars 2018 Letters of Intent due - Feb 1, 2018
• SWHPN Annual General Assembly - March 11-13, 2018, Boston, MA
• The Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (AAHPM/HPNA) - March 14-17, 2018 - Boston, MA
• Pallimed/GeriPal 12th Annual Gathering - March 15, 2018 @ 9p ET - Location TBD in Boston, MA
• National HealthCare Decisions Day - April 16 - Nationwide
• Implementation of Quality Measures for Community-Based Care Programs for Serious Illness: A Workshop from the NASEM Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness - April 17, 2018 - Washington, DC and Free Webinar
• NHPCO Management and Leadership Conference - April 21-24, 2018 - Washington, DC
• Hospice Action Network Advocacy Intensive - April 25, 2018 - Washington, DC
• Caring for the Human Spirit Conference (HealthCare Chaplaincy Network) - April 23-25, 2018 - New Orleans, LA
• Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC) Investigator Meeting - April 25-26, 2018 - Denver, CO
• Palliative Care Quality Network Spring Conference - May 3-4, 2018 - San Francisco, CA
• Hospice Medical Director Certification Board Testing Period - May 17-Jun 5, 2018
• 10th World Research Congress of the European Association of Palliative Care - May 23-26, 2018 - Bern, Switzerland

Summer (June, July, Aug, Sep)

• Cambia Sojourns Scholars 2018 Full Application due - June 1, 2018
• Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association Learning Institute - Jun 14-16, 2018 - Ottawa, Canada
• HPM Board Certification Registration Period Closes (ABIM) - Jan 8, 2018-Jun 14, 2018
• Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows finish and become attendings! - June 30, 2018
• New Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows begin! - July 1, 2018
• Hospice and Palliative Care Virtual Conference (NHPCO/AAHPM/HPNA) - July 18-19, 2018
• AAHPM Intensive Board Review Course - Aug 9-11, 2018 - Minneapolis, MN
• AAHPM Pedi-Innovate Course - Aug 9-11, 2018 - Minneapolis, MN
• MD Anderson Updates in Palliative Care and Physician Board Review Course - September 11 – 13, 2018 - Houston, TX
• MD Anderson 22nd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Supportive Care and Hospice and Palliative Medicine - September 14-15, 2018 - Houston, TX

Fall (Oct, Nov, Dec)

• 22nd International Congress on Palliative Care - October 2-5, 2018 - Montreal, Canada
• National Hospice Month - Nov 1-Nov 30, 2018 - Nationwide
• NHPCO Interdisciplinary Conference - Nov 3-7, 2018 - New Orleans, LA
• CAPC National Seminar - Nov 7-10, 2018 - Orlando, FL
• HPM Board Certification Exam (ABIM) - Nov 20, 2018
• Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium - Nov 16-17, 2018 - San Diego, CA
• NHPCO releases Annual Facts and Figures (usually in the Fall)
• End Well Symposium: Design for the End of Life Experience - Dec 6, 2018 - San Francisco, CA

Recurring

#hpm chat (Twitter) - Last Wednesday night of the month 9p ET - Subscribe to monthly updates on topics at www.hpmchat.org

If you know of any other major events, please add them in the comments below and we may add them to this growing list.

If you would like to help maintain this list and the Google Calendar, it is pretty easy if you have a Gmail address, and can be taught in less than 30 minutes, please email editor - at- pallimed.org.

If you are interested in writing up a report for a major conference listed above, we are always looking for traveling correspondents. Please read this overview of writing conference reports and submit the form on that page.
Christian Sinclair, MD, FAAHPM is the editor-in-chief of Pallimed, and always loves a good conference.