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April 30-May 1, 2010
William Collinge and Tracy Walton will give a presentation at the Oncology Massage Healing Summit in Minneapolis, entitled "Research and Practice: Touch, Caring, and Cancer--Supporting Oncology Massage Research and Practice with an Instructional Massage Video for Caregivers." For information about the conference click here.

May 13-15, 2010
William Collinge and Janet Kahn will give a presentation at the Highlighting Massage Therapy in CIM Research Conference in Seattle, entitled "Family Caregiver Use of Massage as Supportive Cancer Care following Multimedia Instruction." For information about the conference click here.

June 3-6, 2010
William Collinge and Mary Malinski will make two presentations at the American Holistic Nurses Association annual conference in Colorado Springs, CO: An experiential workshop entitled "Reintegrating Touch into Patient and Family Care," and a research poster presentation entitled "Healing at home: empowering family caregivers to use touch as supportive cancer care." For information about the conference click here.

Previous events

February 18-21, 2010
William Collinge will give a presentation at the American Psychosocial Oncology Society 7th Annual Conference in New Orleans, entitled "Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Caregiver Instruction in Touch as Supportive Cancer Care at Home." For information about the conference click here.

November 13, 2009
William Collinge and Janet Kahn will give a presentation at the Society for Integrative Oncology Annual Meeting in New York, entitled "Randomized controlled trial of family caregiver use of massage as supportive cancer care following multimedia instruction," presenting findings from the Touch, Caring and Cancer program. An abstract of the presentation will also be published in the Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology. For information about the meeting click here.

September 21 and 22, 2009
William will present two three-hour continuing education programs for nurses at the Harriet Osborn Jeckel Conference, "Practical Wisdom: Easing Suffering through Healing Presence," Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, Oregon. The programs will include an overview of the Caring and Cancer Project, the research findings, a panel discussion with couples who participated in the project, and an opporunity for pariticpants to experience aspects of the program.

September 20, 2009
William will conduct an afternoon workshop "Touch, Caring and Cancer: A New Perspective on Caregiving" at Providence Cancer Center, Portland, Oregon, for the general public. This program is geared toward patients and their caregivers. Click here for details.

September 20, 2009
William will conduct an evening seminar for health professionals and interested community members, "Touch, Caring and Cancer: A New Perspective on Caregiving", at Providence St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, OR. For details click here.

September 18, 2009
William Collinge and Mary Malinski will conduct an afternoon poster presentation at the First Providence Health System Research Meeting, held at the Providence Cancer Center, Portland, OR. This will be the first time that research findings will be presented for the Caring and Cancer Project. To view the poster, click here.