Palliative Care and Head & Neck Cancer: Opportunities to Improve Care for Patients and Families with Complex Care Needs

Date
November 29, 2017
Time
06:45am - 07:30am
Details

Location

Mission Bay Hospital  - (A1602 B) - 1855 4th Street - San Francisco

Lecturer

Kana Y. McKee, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California San Francisco
Palliative Care Program, Division of Hospital Medicine

Topic

“Palliative Care and Head & Neck Cancer: Opportunities to Improve Care for Patients and Families with Complex Care Needs”

Educational Objectives

  • Define Palliative Care
  • Identify common palliative care needs of Head & Neck cancer patients and provide a framework for management by OHNS clinicians (primary palliative care) and/or specialist palliative care teams
  • Discuss useful skills for serious illness communication

How to Connect to the Conference

  • Video Conferencing available at Parnassus S-161
  • From Jabber/Movi or a registered UCSF video conference system the Video Conference Bridge Number is 55566864 (max of 8 video participants)
  • If you don’t have a Jabber account, please open a ticket with central IT at help.ucsf.edu and request a Jabber account
  • Participants from non-registered UCSF video conference system or outside UCSF, please dial [email protected]
  • Outside system that do not support URI dialing, use [email protected]
  • Audio Callers should dial 415-476-6500. At the prompt, enter 66864#

This program is sponsored by the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF). UCSF is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.

The UCSF School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity MGR18041.

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