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 This annual lectureship was established in 1997 to honor Florence Schorske Wald who is credited with bringing the hospice movement to the United States from England. Ms Wald graduated from the Yale School of Nursing in 1941, and became a teaching assistant to Hildegard Peplau at Rutgers University. In 1956, the schools of education and nursing were closed at Yale by President A Whitney Griswold who believed that training practitioners (i.e., engineers, teachers and nurses) did not suit the image of an academic institution). Florence was invited back to be acting dean, and then dean in 1959. She served in this role until 1968, establishing a graduate program that was extremely patient and family oriented and a strong foundation for graduate education in nursing. When she resigned as dean, she did so to return to clinical nursing, specifically hospice nursing. Largely influenced by Cicely Saunders' work in the hospice movement in the United Kingdom, and by the enthusiasm and encouragement of Virginia Henderson for this new field, she launched a new direction to her career, and a new movement for patient care.
The Wald Lectureship Series
Funded by Charles Shepard and Derry Ann Moritz, the lectureship involves a formal presentation and a series of meetings with community leaders on an aspect related to hospice or palliative care. The intent of the Wald Lectureship is to "provoke new thinking and stimulate dialogue and collaboration between the world of academia and practice, and the university and the community" (Letter from Derry Ann Moritz).
The speakers have approached the issue of hospice and palliative care from a number of perspectives. Listed here are the speakers and their topics:
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| 2006 |
Barbara Daly, PhD, RN, FAAN |
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Director of the Clinical Research Program at University Hospitals of Cleveland
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Case-Western Reserve
Ethical Quandaries in End of Life Research |
| 2004 |
Jeffrey Kahn, PhD |
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Maas Family Chair in Bioethics
Director of the Center for Bioethics of the University of Minnesota
Caring or Conflict at the End of Life: The Case of Proxy Consent for Organ Donation |
| 2003 |
Ida Martinson, PhD, RN, FAAN |
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Professor, Family Health Care Nursing, School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco, CA
When
children die ... lessons from
the past, hopes for the
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| 2002 |
Barbara Koenig, PhD, RN |
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Senior Research Scholar and Executive Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of End-of-Life Care |
| 2001 |
Joanne Wolfe, MD., MPH |
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Pediatric Advanced Care Team, Medical Director
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Instructor, Pediatric Oncology
Children's Hospital of Boston |
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Janet Duncan, BSN, RN |
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Inpatient Nurse Specialist
Children's Hospital of Boston, Boston, MA
Improving Care of Children at the End of Life |
| 2000 |
Ira Byock, MD |
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Director, Palliative Care Service, Missoula, MT
Research Professor, Department of Philosophy, and member, Practical Ethics Center, University of Montana
The Ethics of Caring: A Vision for the New Millennium
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Joan Halifax, PhD |
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Buddhist Teacher
Upaya-A Buddhist Center, Santa Fe, NM
Being with Dying - A Contemplative Basis for End of Life Care |
| 1998 |
Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN |
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Research Scientist, City of Hope, Duarte, CA
The Meaning of Hospice
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For more information or to receive a brochure for the upcoming lecture, contact Cory Franklin (frank070@umn.edu) or call 612-625-1187.
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