Honoring Your Wishes, an advance care planning initiative lead by Iowa City Hospice, is hosting two events on Oct. 4, 2016.

Conference for Health Care Professionals

The first, a professional conference called “Honoring Health Care Preferences through Caring Conversations,” will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, 1301 5^th St., Coralville, Iowa.

Dr. Angelo E. Volandes, a physician and noted expert on Advance Care Planning, will be the keynote speaker.  A faculty member in the General Medicine Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Volandes leads a group of internationally-recognized researchers who create and study video decision aids to empower patients and families to make informed decisions at the end of life. This conference will highlight best practice methods and clinical benefits of Advance Care Planning.

Cost: $25 for Allied Health Professionals, Health Educators, Public Health, and Students; $50 for Physicians.  CEUs and CMEs provided.

To review the brochure and to register, please click here. Scroll down to October events.  Registration deadline: September 28, 2016.

 Free Community Program

The second event is a part of the Iowa City Book Festival.  Community members are invited to join Dr. Angelo E. Volandes as he discusses his book, “The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of Life Care,” on Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.

To register for this free community program, please go to www.medicine.uiowa.edu/community.

If you have questions or require an accommodation in order to participate in these programs, contact Jane Dohrmann by e-mail at jane.dohrmann@iowacityhospice.org or call Judy at Iowa City Hospice at 319-688-4213.

Thank you to the following sponsors who make these events possible: Iowa City Hospice, UNESCO City of Literature, University of Iowa Health Care, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Oaknoll, University of Iowa Center on Aging, Lensing Funeral and Cremation Service, University of Iowa College of Nursing, Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center, Hills Bank and Trust, Mercy Iowa City, US Bank, and the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.