ADVISORY/Day-Long Symposium Gathers Experts to Discuss Care At the End of Life for African Americans.News Editors/Community & Health Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (March 11) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: VITAS Innovative Hospice Care(R) and the Duke Institute on
Care at the End of Life are jointly sponsoring a day-long
symposium, Crossing Over Jordan: African Americans and Care at
the End of Life(TM). It is both a celebration of the
African-American community's rich cultural traditions
surrounding death and dying and an examination of the
challenges it faces in improving the quality of end-of-life
care.
WHO: Richard Payne, M.D., is Chief of the Pain and Palliative Care
Service in the Department of Neurology at New York's Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Karla F.C. Holloway, Ph.D., is the William R. Kenan, Jr.,
Professor of English and Dean of the Humanities and Social
Sciences at Duke University in Durham, NC.
Bishop Simon Gordon is pastor of Triedstone Full Gospel
Baptist Church in Chicago and state overseer of the Illinois
Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship.
Rev. Dr. Steven Avinger, Sr., is Senior Pastor of Greater
Saint Matthew Baptist Church in Philadelphia.
WHEN: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Temple University, Mitten Hall, Philadelphia
TO REGISTER: For more details, please visit http://www.iceol.duke.edu
Call Duke University Conference Services, 919-660-1760.
VITAS VITAS Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association Healthcare Corporation is the nation's largest and leading hospice provider, with 23 programs operating in eight states, including Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. VITAS (pronounced Vee-tahs) currently operates 16 inpatient inpatient /in·pa·tient/ (in´pa-shent) a patient who comes to a hospital or other health care facility for diagnosis or treatment that requires an overnight stay. in·pa·tient n. units nationwide, including three serving the Philadelphia community. The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, based at Duke University Divinity School Divinity School may be:
profession - the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"; "they formed a community of scientists" and practitioners from divergent di·ver·gent adj. 1. Drawing apart from a common point; diverging. 2. Departing from convention. 3. Differing from another: a divergent opinion. 4. fields who have joined together to improve care for the suffering and dying through interdisciplinary teaching Interdisiplinary teaching is a method, or set of methods, used to teach a unit across different curricular disciplines. For example, the seventh grade Language Arts, Science and Social Studies teachers might work together to form an interdiscipinary unit on rivers. , research and public outreach. One of the goals of the Institute is to work with African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. and other diverse groups who have been historically under-represented and under-served. |
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