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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2692
Phone: (410) 516-7160
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February 25, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Leslie Rice
lnr@jhu.edu
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Johns Hopkins Lecture Hospice and Palliative Care: Is
There a Difference?
Carla S. Alexander, a specialist in end-of-life care, will
give a lecture, "Hospice
and Palliative Care: Is There a Difference?", at noon on
Wednesday, March 10, in
Shriver Hall on the University's Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles
St., in Baltimore.
Alexander, president-elect of the Board of Directors of the
American Academy of
Hospice and Palliative Medicine, is one of the country's leading
authorities on patient
and family-centered care. She is also a leading advocate of an
interdisciplinary team
approach that centers on the active anticipation, prevention and
treatment of suffering
for patients who are dying.
Alexander is director of Palliative Care at the University of
Maryland Institute of Human
Virology; assistant professor of Medicine at the University of
Maryland School of
Medicine; assistant professor of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins
University School of
Medicine; and medical director of the Johns Hopkins Home Hospice
Program.
This lecture is part of the Wednesday Noon Series presented by
the Johns Hopkins
University Office of Special Events.
Admission is free. For
further information, call the Office of Special Events at
410-516-7157.
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