Professional Development
Montgomery Hospice Conference
September 16, 2011
11:15am -4:30pm
The Universities at Shady Grove
Conference and Event Center (Bldg 2)
9630 Gudelsky Drive
Rockville , MD 20850
It is time for the health care disciplines and our general culture to integrate the facts of aging, dying, death and grief within a broad vision of what a healthy last chapter of life looks like. Stories of success – brilliant and effective programs of care or people expressing a sense of wellness in the midst of difficult circumstances – often challenge our assumptions and expand the realm of what we consider possible. Dr. Byock will explore the hopeful clinical, cultural and even political implications of affirmative visions for these difficult, but normal, times in human life.
Speaker : Ira Byock , MD is Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and a Professor at Dartmouth Medical School.
Dr. Byock has authored numerous articles on the et