August 7-8: 3rd Annual Promoting Excellence in Pain Management and Palliative Care for Social Workers
Location:  Pasadena, CA
Affiliation:   SCCPI & City of Hope

August 24-27:  16th Annual Dementia Care Conference
Location:  Garden Grove, CA
Affiliation:   Alzheimer's Association, Orange County Chapter

August 28-30:  Current Concepts in Palliative Care: Update and Review Course
Location:  Chicago, IL
Affiliation:   American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

SEPTEMBER
September 8-10: Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care Educational Retreat
Location:  Monterey, CA
Affiliation:   Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition

September 16-18: 17th Annual Pain Resource Nurse Training Course
Location:  Duarte, CA
Affiliation:   SCCPI & City of Hope

September 23-26:  17th International Congress on Palliative Care
Location:  Montreal, Canada
Affiliation:   Palliative Care Division of the Departments of Medicine and Oncology of McGill University

September 25-28:  Fourth Annual Oncology Congress
Location:  San Francisco, CA
Affiliation:    Oncology Congress & Stanford Cancer Center

September 30:  Intensive Board Review Course in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Location:  Houston, TX
Affiliation:   University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

October 1-2: Pain and Symptom Management in Patients with Advance Disease: Clinical Review for Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses
Location:  Houston, TX
Affiliation:   University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

October 3: 12th Annual Interdisciplinary Approach to Symptom Control, Palliative and Hospice Care Conference
Location:  Houston, TX
Affiliation:   University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

October 9-11: ELNEC Critical Care
Location:  Washington, DC
Affiliation:   American Association of Nursing & City of Hope

October 30-Novermber 1: 19th Annual Meeting of the Alliance of State
Pain Initiatives (ASPI)
Location: Austin, TX
Affiliation: Alliance of State Pain Initiatives

NOVEMBER