EVENTS RELATED TO THE WORK OF PARTNERS IN HEALING

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May 9, 2012
William Collinge will give a presentation on massage in integrative cancer care at Medical Oncology Grand Rounds, Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Click here for details.

May 12, 2012
William Collinge will offer a half-day seminar on Touch, Caring and Cancer for the CLIMB for Health Professionals continuing eduation program, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon. Click here for details. ____________________________________________________________________

Previous events

January 20, 2012
William Collinge will present with Susan Bauer-Wu a workshop, "Mindfulness and Touch for Cancer Patients and Family and Professional Caregivers: Enhancing Wellbeing and Connectedness," at the Georgia Cancer Coalition Integrative Oncology Conference in Atlanta. Click here for details.

December 21, 2012
William Collinge and Margaret Donahue will present a seminar, "Family Caregiver Education Using the Touch, Caring and Cancer Program," at the Chinese Amercian Service League in Chicago, co-sponsored by the University of Chicago, with attendees from Rush University and Northwestern University. For info about CASL click here.

November 12, 2011
William Collinge will be a discussant on the panel "Massage and Energy Therapy Research", and will present with Susan Bauer-Wu a workshop, "Mindfulness and Touch for Cancer Patients and Family and Professional Caregivers: Enhancing Wellbeing and Connectedness," at the Society for Integrative Oncology annual meeting in Cleveland. Click here for details.

November 2, 2011
William Collinge was the guest speaker for an online tele-chat session on "Caring for the Caregiver" hosted by the Colon Cancer Alliance. Click here to listen.

October 19-22, 2011
William Collinge hosted an informational exhibit on The Touch, Caring and Cancer Program for professional massage therapists at the American Massage Therapy Association national convention in Portland, OR. Click here for details.

September 10-11, 2011
William Collinge will present a workshop, "Bringing Touch Into Caregiving to Reduce Patient Distress," at the "Celebrating a Second Chance at Life Survivorship Symposium" in Atlanta sponsored by the Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network. Click here for details.

June 14, 2011
William Collinge will present two seminars for palliative care personnel on "Touch, Caring and Cancer: A New Perspective on Caregiving," at the Strathcarron Hospice, in Denny, Scotland. Click here for details.

May 19, 2011
Dr. Vilma Tripodoro of the Pallium Latinoamérica Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Alfredo Lanari, University of Buenos Aires, will present a preview of the Touch, Caring and Cancer program and talk on "Family Caregiver Participation in Palliative Care: Effects of Instruction in Simple Touch and Massage Methods for Comfort and Quality of Life" at the 12th Congress of the European Association of Palliative Care in Lisbon, Portugal. Click here for details.

May 4-6, 2011
William Collinge will present a workshop, "Touch, Caring and Cancer: Building Family Caregiver Efficacy in Supportive and Palliative Care," at the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Oncology Social Work in St. Louis. Click here for details.

November 17, 2010
William Collinge and Leila Kozak, PhD, post-doctoral fellow in palliative care at the VA Puget Sound, will give a two-hour program on touch in caregiving to family members of veterans and active duty military personnel at the VA Puget Sound Fisher House in Seattle, 1-3 pm. Click here for details.

October 30, 2010
William Collinge will be speaking at the the conference "Living with Chronic GVHD (Graft Versus Host Disease)" in Chicago, sponsored by the Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network. Click here for details.

September 22, 2010
William Collinge will be at the Intercultural Cancer Council Regional Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer in Chicago. Click here for details.

June 9, 2010
William Collinge will be a guest on "Taking Care", BNN-TV, Boston, to discuss the Touch, Caring and Cancer program and research about the project. The hour-long program can be viewed online via streaming video at 6pm Wednesday June 9, 10am Friday June 11, and noon Sunday June 13. Click here to watch at those times.

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.

May 19, 2010
William Collinge will conduct an in-service presentation for the social work staff at Providence Cancer Center in Portland, Oregon. The program will focus on implementing the Center's plans to distribute the Touch, Caring and Cancer Program to new families coming for cancer treatment services. Providence Cancer Center will be the first facility in the country to make this program available to families.

May 13-15, 2010
William Collinge and Tracy Walton 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.

April 30-May 1, 2010
William Collinge and Tracy Walton gave 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.

March 8, 2010
William Collinge gave a presentation on "Randomized controlled trial of famly caregiver instruction in touch as supportive cancer care at home" at the DEA SRO Seminar, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD.

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.