PC-HEART is pleased to be a sponsoring organization of the upcoming conference Ethical Issues in Care for Persons with Advanced Heart Failure April 17-8, 2006, at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington DC.

PC-HEART is pleased to be a sponsoring organization of the upcoming conference Ethical Issues in Care for Persons with Advanced Heart Failure April 17-8, 2006, at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington DC.

The conference aims to catalyze action by health care leaders and set an agenda to address:

• the distribution of treatments, devices and technologies and the selection of patients to receive them
• the distribution and range of palliative care provided to patients with advanced heart failure
• communication and decision-making with patients about heart failure course and prognosis
• the distribution of care and services to patients of differing age, race and social and reimbursement structure
• the health care financing issues that affect heart failure care

Audience: The conference will be of interest to health care administrators, health care policy-makers, clinicians and ethicists.

Faculty:

• Barry Massie MD,UCSF School of Medicine,San Francisco, CA
• George Mensah MD, Centers for Disease Control,Atlanta, GA
• Arthur Feldman MD,Thomas Jefferson University,Philadelphia, PA
• Sandra Dunbar RN , DSN Emory University School of Nursing, Atlanta, GA
• Sana M. Al Khatib, MD,Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC
• Lynne Warner Stevenson MD, Harvard University, Boston, MA
• JoAnn Lindenfeld MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences, Denver, CO
• Richard Rodeheffer MD, Mayo Clinic,Rochester MN
• Jack Guralnik MD Ph.D., National Institutes on Aging,Bethesda, MD
• Leslie Francis LLD, PhD, University of Utah School of Law, Salt Lake City, UT
• Jon Costlow,Chf patients.com Inc
• Timothy Quill MD,University of Rochester School of Medicine,Rochester, NY
• Amber Jones, National Hospice Work Group; Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care
• James Beattie MD,National Clinical Lead, NHS Heart Improvement Programme
• Stephen Connor PhD,National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• Barbara Riegel RN PhD,University of Pennsylvania
• John Spertus MD,Midwest Cardiovascular Institute,Kansas City, MO
• Reva Winkler, MD, MPH, National Quality Forum, Washington, DC
• Donald E. Casey Jr., MD, MPH, MBA, Atlantic Health System, Florham Park, NJ
• Mary Ann Baily PhD LLD, Hastings Center,Hastings on Hudson, NY
• Marcel Salive MD MPH, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid,Baltimore, MD
• Patty Orr RN EdD,Vice President, Clinical Integrity, American Healthways
• Joanne Lynn MD, Rand Corporation, Arlington, VA
• Harry R. Moody PhD, AARP, Washington DC

Registration Fees

• Charge per individual: $170 (includes continental breakfast both days, lunch on the 17th)
• Corporate support (for 1-4 persons) $1000

Conference Location

St. Regis Hotel, 923 16th and K Streets, N.W., Washington, DC. 20006

Hotel Reservations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the St. Regis Hotel at a rate of $189 per night. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel directly at 1-888-627-8087 by identifying the conference by the name “Ethical Issues in Heart Failure.”

We are grateful for partial funding from Medtronic Inc, Scios, Abbott Laboratories, The Byrne Foundation

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Please print. Use a separate form for each registrant.

Ethical Issues in Care for Persons with Advanced Heart Failure April 17 – 18, 2006
St. Regis Hotel, Washington, DC Contact Information

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Hotel Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the St. Regis Hotel at a rate of $189 per night. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel directly and identifying the conference by the name “Ethical Issues in Heart Failure.”

St. Regis Hotel
923 16th and K Streets, N.W.
Washington, DC. 20006
Phone: 1-888-627-8087

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The $170 registration fee must be prepaid. Payment must accompany registration form.

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Submitting Registration and Payment

You may submit your registration by fax or mail if you are payment by credit card and by mail if you are paying by check.

Please fax registration forms with payment to 877-595-7649 (Toll-free) or 732-380-3642 (Outside U.S.)

Please mail registrations to:

Ethical Issues in Heart Failure Registration
Attn: Noel Eberline
4700 W. Lake Ave
Glenview, IL 60025

If you have questions regarding registration, please e-mail Reg_Services@connect2amc.com or call 847-375-3685.

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