PERINATAL HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE

PAST EVENTS

 

• Virtual grand rounds, Quality of Life and Advanced Care Program, McMaster Children’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 23, 2023

• Keynote speaker for perinatal palliative care symposium co-sponsored by the Center for Palliative Care and the Institute of the Care for Mother and Child, Prague, Czech Republic, Jan. 2, 2020

• Keynote speaker at perinatal palliative care symposium hosted by the Roger Neilson House and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Ottawa, Canada, Oct, 11, 2019

• Moderator for international conference on perinatal hospice & palliative care, co-sponsored by the Vatican office for Laity, Family, and Life and the Italian foundation Il Cuore in una Goccia. Program, e-book of presentations and video. Rome, Italy, May 23-24, 2019
  (Pope Francis gave an address on perinatal hospice to conference attendees; an English translation of his prepared text is available here. For news and photos from the conference, see this Twitter thread.) 

• Featured speaker for Virtua Health Perinatal Bereavement and Palliative Care conference, "Making the most of precious time," Voorhees, New Jersey, March 16, 2019

• Presentation at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Nov. 16, 2017

• Book-release event for Polish translation of A Gift of Time, Krakow, Poland, Nov. 10, 2017

• Presentation at 3rd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 26, 2017

• Presentation at University Health Service, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 11, 2017

• Palliative care awareness event in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, Oct. 8, 2017

• Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota ethics committee presentation, Minneapolis, April 13, 2017

• Guest host of International Children's Palliative Care Network tweetchat on perinatal hospice, March 1, 2017

• Guest host of Pallimed tweetchat on perinatal hospice, Oct. 19, 2016

• American Society of Bioethics + Humanities annual meeting plenary session, Washington D.C., Oct. 8, 2016

• "Perinatal Hospice and Palliative Care: Past, Present, and Future," 20th Biennial International Perinatal Bereavement Conference, Phoenix, Sept. 30, 2016

• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Remembrance Walk emcee, Stillwater, Minnesota, Sept. 10, 2016 

• Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center Perinatal Symposium plenary session, Pomona, California, April 27, 2016 

• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep webcast guest, Denver, December 2015

• Keynote speaker, Fourth Annual Orange County Women's and Children's Palliative Care Conference, sponsored by UC Irvine Health, Anaheim, California, January 29, 2015

• University of Minnesota Medical School Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health grand rounds, Minneapolis, August 19, 2014

• Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Minnesota section annual conference, Minneapolis, February 27, 2014

• Guest lecture at the University of Manchester School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Social Work, Manchester, England, January 7, 2014 

• Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian neonatal hospice conference, New York City

• Prenatal diagnosis and medical genetics symposium, University of Toronto/The Hospital for Sick Children/Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario

• Grand rounds, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario

• Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, ethics presentation and  "Compassion in the Art of Medicine" seminar, Houston

• National Society of Genetic Counselors annual education conference (plenary session), Kansas City

• Pediatric grand rounds, San Francisco General Hospital

• Presentation to OB/NICU staff, UCSF Children's Hospital, San Francisco

• Perinatal palliative care conference (plenary session), Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and UCSF Children's Hospital, Berkeley, California

• Pediatric ethics conference, Cleveland Clinic

• Pediatric bioethics conference, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle

• International Conference on Perinatal and Infant Death (keynote speaker), Minneapolis, Minnesota

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization national clinical conference, San Diego

• Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors annual education meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia

• National Association of Perinatal Social Workers annual conference (plenary session), Little Rock, Arkansas

• SANDS New Zealand national conference, Wanganui, New Zealand

• 2nd Annual Neonatal/Pediatric Palliative Care Conference, Betty H. Cameron Women and Children's Hospital, Wilmington, North Carolina

• Johns Hopkins University graduate seminar in genetic counseling, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

• National Perinatal Association (plenary session), Fort Worth, Texas

• National Perinatal Association, San Diego

• Perinatal and early infant loss conference (keynote speaker), Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania

• RTS "Blueprint for a Perinatal Palliative Care Program" conference keynote, Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation, La Crosse, Wisconsin

• Grand rounds, Omaha Children's Hospital

• Perinatal/neonatal palliative care and hospice conference, Gateway Northwest Maternal and Child Health Network and Atlantic Health, Morris Plains, New Jersey

• "Waiting for Life, Anticipating Death: A Perinatal Bereavement Conference" (keynote speaker), The Toledo Hospital/Toledo Children's Hospital, ProMedica Health System

• 16th Building Blocks of Care Perinatal Conference, St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska

• Perinatal palliative care conference, Lancaster General Women's & Babies Hospital, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

• American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

• Texas Perinatal Association, Odessa, Texas 

• Perinatal nursing symposium, Fort Worth, Texas

• University of Minnesota Medical School lunch lectures 

• Perinatal hospice conference, Dakota Medical Foundation, Fargo, North Dakota

• National Perinatal Bereavement Conference, Chicago

• National Perinatal Bereavement Conference, Las Vegas

• Minnesota section of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Minneapolis

• HealthPartners 25th Annual OB/GYN Update, Oakdale, Minnesota

• Pediatric cardiac critical care conference sponsored by Fairview-University Medical Center and University of Minnesota School of Nursing, St. Paul, Minnesota

• Spartanburg (S.C.) Regional Health Care System perinatal conference

• Presentations to Parkview Northeast OB/GYN Women's Health Group, social workers, nursing students, and others, Fort Wayne, Indiana

• Ridgeview Medical Center CME presentation, Waconia, Minnesota

• Perinatal loss conferences sponsored by Allina Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis (also served twice as steering committee member)

• North Carolina/South Carolina Perinatal Association conference, Greensboro, North Carolina (plenary session)

• International Death, Grief and Bereavement Conference, Center for Death Education and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

• American College of Nurse-Midwives chapter meeting, Minneapolis

• "Breath of Life" workshop for doulas and other birth professionals, Enlightened Mama, St. Paul, Minnesota

• Barnes & Noble "Journeys of Faith" speaker series, Roseville, Minnesota

• Featured author, College of St. Benedict Book Lovers' Night, St. Joseph, Minnesota

• College of St. Benedict/St. John's University "REDTalk," Minneapolis, April 9, 2014

• Philosophy/ethics courses, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

• Nursing courses, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota

• Social work course, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, Minnesota