Bernard Hammes will speak on advance care planning at noon Oct. 14 in the Presence Covenant Medical Center auditorium, 1400 W. Park St, Urbana.
Bernard Hammes, a professor of medicine, will speak on advance care planning from noon-1 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Presence Covenant Medical Center auditorium, 1400 W. Park St., Urbana. The event is free and open to the public.
Hammes is the director of Medical Humanities and Respecting Choices for Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His work has focused on improving care for patients with serious illness, and he has developed institutional policies and practices, staff education and patient and community education with a special focus on advance care planning.
The work has resulted in the Respecting Choices program being awarded the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award in 2015. He is the editor of the book “Having Your Own Say: Getting the Right Care When It Matters Most.”
A winner of the PDIA Palliative Medicine Community Leadership Award by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 2012, Hammes is a professor of clinical science at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, an associate adjunct professor of the Institute for Health and Society at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and a clinical assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
For more information about the lecture, contact Chantelle Thompson at 217-300-4221.
The event is hosted by the U. of I. College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, along with the Jon David and Elizabeth A. Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy at the College of Law, the School of Social Work and Illinois Public Media.
