VNSNY Hospice Care 2009 Lecture Ser ies

3rd Annual CelebrationDame Cicely Saunders, Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement

New Understandings of Bereavement

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Speaker: David E. Balk, Ph.D.

David E. Balk, Ph.D. , Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNYDirector, Graduate Program in Thanatology

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Please register your RSVP to: The Rev. Paul A.Metzler, Director,Community & Program Services (212) 609-1979 or Paul.Metzler@vnsny.org

Date: Friday, June 19, 2009

Time: 3:30-4:30 pm Presentation Lecture4:30-5:30 pm Wine & Cheese Reception

Location: VNSNY Hospice Care1250 Broadway (Broadway & 32nd Street)7th Floor — Conference Room 7A

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David E.Balk is Professor in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciencesat Brooklyn College of CUNY and Director of the Graduate Program inThanatology.He is Editor-in-Chief of the Handbook of Thanatology:The EssentialBody of Knowledge for the Study of Death,Dying,and Bereavement (ADEC, 2007)and recently co-edited Adolescent Encounters with Death,Bereavement,andCoping (Springer, 2009).He also serves as an editor of Death Studies, a peerreviewed professional journal.

The Dame Cicely Saunders Celebrationhonors the life of Dame Saunders asfounder of the modern hospice movement.She established St. Christopher’s Hospice inLondon in 1967 to meet the physical, social,psychological and spiritual needs of dyingpatients and their family/friends.A nurse,medical social worker and finally also physi-cian and writer, Saunders is acclaimed forimproving end-of-life care around theglobe.This event celebrates her lifework on what would have been her 91stbirthday (June 22, 1918 - July 14, 2005).

Dame Cicely Saunders,Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement

Please register your RSVP to:

The Rev. Paul A.Metzler, Director,

Community & Program Services

(212) 609-1979 or

Paul.Metzler@vnsny.org

VNSNY Hospice Care 2009 Lecture Ser ies

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