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and at near death. We will include factors thatsignal likelihood to respond such as blood oxy-gen saturation, intensity of dyspnea, underlyingdisease, nearness to death, and differing clinicalscenarios. We will also discuss alternatives to pal-liative oxygen treatment, including advantagesand disadvantages, and the role of the n-of-1 trialin routine clinical practice.

SIG Symposium

Learn from Today’s Palliative MedicineLeaders So You Can Become a PalliativeLeader Tomorrow (518)Fellowship Directors Forum SIGJeanette Ross, MD, University of Texas HealthScience Center, San Antonio, TX. Diane Meier,MD FACP FAAHPM, Mount Sinai School ofMedicine, Center to Advance Palliative Care,and Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg PalliativeCare Institute, New York, NY. David Weissman,MD, Palliative Care Education, LLC, Shorewood,WI. Sandra Sanchez Reilly, MD FAAHPM, Uni-versity of Texas Health Science Center, San Anto-nio, TX.(All authors listed above for this session have dis-closed no relevant financial relationships.)

Objectives1. Discuss leadership as an essential component

to practicing palliative medicine.2. Identify several paths to successful leadership

in the field of Palliative Medicine.3. Describe strategies to refine and develop

knowledge and skills needed to become a pal-liative medicine leader.

Effective leaders are able to inspire groups of di-verse and talentedpeople to realize their personaland collective potential while working collabora-tively towards a common goal. Great leaders man-age to affect others positively, and have a lastingand determining influence in others. Innate toour profession, hospice and palliative medicine(HPM) specialists need to be leaders; whetherworking with interprofessional teams in clinicalsettings, educational settings or the community.Effective leadership can be a deciding factor todifferentiate between a good palliative medicineprogram and a successful program achievinggreatness. In response to the fellowship directorforum special interest group need for creatingand fostering a cadre of next generation leaders,this session will explain leadership key concepts

as it relates to palliative medicine. Based on theavailable healthcare and business literature, wewill provide an overview of leadership and its im-portance in palliative medicine, highlighting thecharacteristics of great leaders. Subsequently, na-tionally recognized palliative medicine leaderswill describe their path to successful leadership.These HPM pioneers will address the challengesand opportunities that moved them forward orcaused them to be redirected. Furthermore, ac-tive discussion will be fomented and participantswill be encouraged to formulate personal strate-gies to refine and develop their leadership rolein HPM.

InterdisciplinaryProfessionals inTrainingSession (519)

12:15e1:15 pm

Educational ForumThe Practice of Palliative Medicine inDeveloping Countries

Book Club DiscussionDeath with Interruptions by Jos�eSaramago

AAHPM SIG MeetingsEthicsFellowship Directors Forum

1:30e2:30 pm

Concurrent Sessions

The Medical-Legal Partnership: AnInnovative Model to Relieve Medical-LegalSuffering in Hospitalized Patients WithAdvanced Cancer (520)Lynn Hallarman, MD, Stony Brook UniversityMedical Center, Stony Brook, NY. Denise Snow,JD RN CNM NP, Stony Brook University, StonyBrook, NY.(All authors listed above for this session have dis-closed no relevant financial relationships.)

Objectives1. Recognize hospitalized patients and their

families with medical legal suffering.2. Recognize the components of medical legal

consultation and consultation triggers.