Schindler Lecture Looks To Teach A Humanistic Approach To Caring For Seriously Ill Patients

Chesapeake Life Center invites the community to the 19th annual Emily Schindler memorial lecture, “Joyful Palliative Care: A Humanistic Approach to Connecting with Your Seriously Ill Patients,” presented by Delia Chiaramonte. The lecture will be held from 9:30am-12:30pm on September 20, in the Fellowship Hall at Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church, located at 611 Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard in Severna Park.

Caring for families facing aging or illness can be both meaningful and stressful, and holding space for other people’s suffering without actively taking care of one’s own wellbeing can lead to compassion fatigue and burnout. In this session, attendees will learn how to develop a healing presence, master heart-centered communication and actively take care of themselves.

This annual lecture was created in 2005 through a gift to the Schindler family from the Saint Agnes Cancer Center. Emily Schindler was an 18-year-old freshman at Frostburg State University and a member of the SPY swim team in Severna Park when she was tragically killed in a car accident in 2004.

Registration begins at 9:00am and a light breakfast will be provided. Maryland board social workers can earn three Category 1 continuing education credits. The cost is $20. Preregistration is required and can be completed at www.education.hospicechesapeake.org.

For details, call 888-501-7077 or email griefinfo@chesapeakelifecenter.org.

About The Presenter

Delia Chiaramonte is an integrative palliative medicine physician who is passionate about physician education. She spent a decade as the associate director and director of education for the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland medical school, and she is board certified in palliative medicine. Most recently, she ran an integrative palliative medicine program, serving mostly cancer patients. Seeing the power of this unique model, Chiaramonte started The Institute for Integrative Palliative Medicine with the goal of training 1,000 physicians to provide “whole person care for people with serious illness using all the tools that work.”