Promoting Quality Care Near the End of Life: What Policy Makers Need to Know

Wednesday, July 18, 2001
Noon - 2:00 PM
708 Hart Senate Office Building

Sponsored by:

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
The American Psychological Association

Presenters:

Karen Orloff Kaplan, MPH, Sc.D., Executive Director Partnership for Caring, Inc.
 Moderator

Barry Rosenfeld, Ph.D.,  Associate Professor of Psychology  Fordham University, New York
Psychosocial research on end-of-life care

Gwen London, D.Min., Executive Director D.C. Partnership to Improve End-of-Life Care
Special challenges of delivering psychosocial services to minority communities

Patricia A. Grady, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
NINR's palliative care portfolio: Current projects and future research needs

James L. Werth, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology The University of Akron
Training needs for mental health professionals: Improving end of life care

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