GoalThis symposium course will provide a betterunderstanding of the palliative care team’s role inrelieving biopsychosocial and spiritual suffering.

AudienceChaplains, ministers, clergy, spiritual care counselors,nurses, social workers, and other health careprofessionals delivering spiritual care in thecommunity and in healthcare facilities.

The 2018 Steve Thorney Lecture in Spiritual Care:

Farr Curlin, MDJosiah C Trent Professor of Medical Humanities

Duke University

The Collective Soul Symposium“Living the Integration of Spiritual Care

in our Daily Practice… Touching the spirit and re-enchanting the soul in the body”

7thAnnual

Cost (includes breakfast, lunch, & reception)

$150 Registration Fee

$75 Student Rate (must show need)

$125 MDACC Employees

Certificates of attendance will be awarded.

February 9th, 2018, 7:30 a.m. –5:30 p.m.February 10th, 2018, 8:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m.

Duncan Building (CPB)1155 Pressler StreetHouston, TX 77030

Palliative Care is a Patient and family-centeredcare that optimizes quality of life by anticipating,preventing, and treating suffering of personswith life-threatening illness.“We are all part of the collective soul… Integrative carewith multidisciplinary approaches…to provide a touch ofhope…a touch of love…to decrease suffering and toimprove the quality of life of patients andfamilies/caregivers in distress.”

For more information:

Contact Deanna CuelloPhone: 713-794-1887

Email: cuello@mdanderson.orgtinyurl.com/collectivesoul2018

All statements and opinions contained herein are solely those of the individual speakers and may not reflect those of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Friday, February 9, 2018

Saturday, February 10, 2018

• Registration and Breakfast• Welcome• Invocation/Blessings• Caring for patients with advanced illness

the importance of an Early integration of Palliative Care in their care.

Break• Introduction of the Steve Thorney

Award Lecture to Farr Curlin, M.D.• The 2018 Steve Thorney Lecture in

Spiritual Care:Exploring ethical, clinical, and spiritual dilemmas found while caring for patients with advanced and terminal illness. Are we prepared to deal with them?

• Suffering and Healing: the paradigm of living life. Different cultural and religious perspectives

• Gibberish: A Fun Way to Relieve Stress, Increase Self-Confidence, and Team Build

Lunch & Music Performance

WORKSHOP A• The Palliative Care Team (The Collective

Soul) creating healing connections in suffering.

• Ups, Downs, and In-Betweens: Spatial Metaphors at the End of Life

• Ministry to a Salient Population: Latinos in our healthcare systems.

Break• Caring for Family Members and

Caregivers of patients with advanced and terminal illnesses

• A difficult task to do… to write a Letter to Death… living with advanced and terminal illnesses.

• Registration and Breakfast• Welcome: Remarks of the day• Yoga Mass• A soul that also suffers…Caring for

Kids with advanced and terminal illnesses

• Caring the broken spirit of patients with advanced illness in time of crisis. The Harvey Experience

Break• When someone deeply listens to you,

a journal of gratitude living with a life-threatening illness.

• Art therapy and healing the soul• The role of Mindfulness-based

interventions on Spiritual Distress and other symptoms in patients with advanced illnesses.

• Touching our own spirit in our daily journey

Adjourn, Evaluation

To register: www.mdanderson.org/conferencesFor more information contact Deanna Cuello at

713-794-1887 or e-mail:dcuello@mdanderson.org

Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation andIntegrative Medicine

MD Anderson Speakers:Unless noted otherwise, Department of Palliative,

Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine

• Regina Pair Allen, MDivChaplain, Department of Spiritual Care & Education

• Sujin Ann-Yi PhDPsychologist

• Martha Aschenbrenner, BSPalliative Care Psychological Counselor

• Karen Baumgartner, ANPAdvanced Nurse Practioner

• Eduardo Bruera, M.D.Professor and Chair

• Alejandro Chaoul, PhDAssistant Professor

• Luke Coulson, LCSWSocial Worker

• Marvin Omar Delgado Guay, M.D. (Chair)Assistant Professor

• Steven Findley, MDiv, BCCChaplain, Department of Spiritual Care and Education

• Diana Guzman, LPCCounseling Associate

• Carolyn Holmes, APRNAdvanced Practice Provider

• Gale Kennebrew, Dmin, BCC, ACPEDirector, Department of Spiritual Care & Education

• Lorna McNeil, PhD, MPHAssociate Professor, Department of Health Disparities

• Kevin Madden, MDAssistant Professor

• Suresh Reddy, M.D.Professor

• Ishwaria Subbiah, MDAssociate Professor

• Marieberta Vidal, MDAssistant Professor

• Paul Walker, M.D.Associate Professor

Guest Speakers:• Ali Candir

Institute of Spirituality and Health• Rev. Carla Cheatham, MA, MDiv, Ph.D., TRT

Heart to Heart Hospice• John Graham M.D.

Institute of Spirituality and Health• Geshe Denma Gyaltsen

Doctor of Bon Buddhist Philosophy• Hope Lipnick, MA, LPC, CHTP

Institute of Spirituality and Health• Susana McCollom, MA

Institute of Spirituality and Health• Sarath Menon-Chembottil, EdD

University of Houston• David M. Steinhorn, MD

Children’s National Medical Center• Linda Tavel, MD

Texas Home Health and Hospice• Paul Robertson, Mdiv, PhD, ACPE

Memorial Hermann• Cletus Udoh MDiv, MA

Chaplain, Spiritual Care DepartmentLyndon B Johnson General Hospital

All statements and opinions presented are solely those ofthe individual speakers and may not reflect those of TheUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

WORKSHOP B• Harmony and Health: adaptation of

a mind-body intervention for African American Christians

• Near Death Experiences – Clinical Implications of caring patients with severe illnesses.

• Psychological distress among patients with advanced and terminal illnesses

Break• The care of kids with parents with

advanced and terminal illness.• Working together to decreased

suffering: clinicians and spiritual/religious care leaders

Reception & Music Performance

Advanced Course Advisory Committee:

Marvin Omar Delgado-Guay MD, John Graham MD, SteveThorney MDiv, Eduardo Bruera MD, Carolyn HolmesAPRN, Kimmie Tallie APN, Gale Kennebrew MDiv, CletusUdoh, MDiv, Morvan O. Hall, DMin, Regina Pair AllenMDiv, MHSA, BCC, Stuart Nelson and Deanna Cuello.

Administrative Support: Elida Galan