Co-sponsored by LOS ANGELES PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY

The Reflective Clinician Series (Part II)

ATTENDING PAIN AND DYING:
A Workshop For Frontline Clinicians

Saturday, May 3, 2003
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
$95
(Graduate Students $45; medical specialty residents, no charge)

This program will satisfy requirements of the Medical Board of California as a CME course on pain and terminal care. Organized to meet the needs of physicians of all specialties and psychotherapists.

MORNING PROGRAM

Jerome Cohen Memorial Lecture

Edward Feldman, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA; Research Member, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society & Institute:

• STRUGGLES WITH MORTALITY: Mindfully Approaching the End of Life

Jean B. Sanville, MSW, PhD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Studies:

• MEDICAL RELIEF/IATROGENIC PAIN: A Survivor’s Story

David Wellisch PhD, Professor in Residence, Dept of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Science, David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA:

AFTERNOON PROGRAM

Film about 3 families in Hospice (courtesy of UCLA)

DISCUSSION: Lydia Szamray, MFT, Director of Substance Abuse Services, Aids Project Los Angeles

EVENING PROGRAM

A film Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

Breakout group leaders:

Roman Anshin MD, Diane Fletcher PhD, Ivan Gabor MD, Halina Irving MFT,
Dan Plotkin MD, Joy Shary PhD, Elizabeth Trawick MD, Lynne Weingarten Silbert MSW

Co-chairs: Thomas M Brod, MD and Bruce Gainsley, MD.

Schedule

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

Registrants of “Attending Pain and Dying” are encouraged to bring a guest and join us for a showing of Mickey Lemle’s critically acclaimed film “Ram Dass: Fierce Grace”.

“… Lemle, who has known his subject for 25 years, balances fascinating, often hilariously funny footage from the hippie era, with contemporary material on Ram Dass, as he remakes his life since suffering a stroke five years ago. –Film Forum.”

“In February, 1997, Ram Dass experienced a stroke, which left him with problems of expressive aphasia and partial paralysis. The after effects of the stroke have made it necessary for him to postpone plans for his radio program, but he has been able to resume his other teaching commitments, and he is using the experiences attendant on his stroke to explore more deeply the spiritual dimensions of suffering and the nature of the aging process.

“Ram Dass' latest book is on consciousness and aging, entitled Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying, which was published by Riverhead Books in May of 2001.”

Note: There will be no CEU’s offered for the evening portion of this program
Seating is limited. Non-Registrants may be admitted if space permits. Call LAPSI at 310.478-6541 regarding space and reservations.

Objectives:
By the end of this conference participants should be familiar with the impact pain and terminal prognosis has on quality of life from three domains: providers, the patient and their families. Practitioners will gain skills to deal more effectively with each of these domains