Presentations
Child Therapy within a Family Therapy Framework. (Brief
Presentation) American Family Therapy Association Annual Meeting. San Diego, Ca.
June, 1985.
Working With a Family Possessed by the Devil. (Brief
Presentation) American Family Therapy Association Annual Meeting. Washington,
DC. June, 1986.
Differentiation of Self/Differentiated and Undifferentiated
Families. Maternal Child Health Coordinators, Rhode Island Department of Health.
June,1990.
Crystals, Auras, Chakras and Energy Fields. University of Rhode Island,
Narragansett Bay Classroom. November, 1991.
New Age Treatment Modalities. (Five 2-minute radio broadcasts).
University of Rhode Island and Brown University Healthwatch Program. Fall, 1991.
Holistic Alternatives. South County Hospital Nursing Staff
In-service Program. April, 1992.
Women’s Consciousness and Health. Rhode Island State Nurses
Association. May, 1992.
Holistic Approaches to Pain Management. Rhode Island Cancer Pain
Initiative. American Cancer Society. Providence, R.I. February, 1994.
Holistic Nursing Intervention. Grand Rounds, Connecticut Mental
Health Center, New Haven, Ct. March, 1994.
Holistic Pain Interventions. The First Southern New England
Palliative Care Conference, Rhode Island Hospital. April, 1995.
Palliative Care Service, a Nurse-Driven Consulting Service. The
Eleventh Annual International Hospice Institute Symposium. Vancouver, British
Columbia. July,1995.
Holistic/Adjuvant Interventions in Pain Management. Valley
Hospice, Slater Health Center, Pawtucket, R.I. September, 1995.
Alternatives in Pain Management. Burn Care: A nuts and Bolts
Approach. Burn Care Conference, Rhode Island Hospital. October, 1995.
Holistic Pain Interventions. The Second Southern New England
Palliative Care Conference, Rhode Island Hospital. April, 1996.
The Role of the In-Patient Palliative Care Service in the
Treatment of AIDS patients. Co-authored A. Fisher, Vohr, F & Wacker, M.
International AIDS Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia. July, 1996.
Palliative Care Concepts, Quality of Life Issues for the Patient
with a Brain Tumor. The Third Annual Anne Martel Leveille Neuroscience Nursing
Science Seminar, Rhode Island Hospital. October, 1996.
Palliative Care Issues across the Continuum of Nursing Practice.
Rhode Island Nurses Association. October, 1996
Palliative Care: Issues in Caring for Terminally Ill Patients.
Pastoral Care Week Breakfast Conference. October, 1996.
The Mind/Body Connection. Diabetes Workshop, Rhode Island
Hospital. November, 1996.
Interdisciplinary Team Model. The Third Annual Southern New
England Palliative Care Conference. Providence, R.I. May, 1997.
Alternative Therapies. Horizons Nursing Conference sponsored by
Region I Members of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, Boston,
MA, April, 1998.
Psychosocial Issues in Pain Management. Annual Graubart-Irving
Lecture sponsored by The Arthritis Foundation, Southern New England Chapter.
Providence, R.I. September, 1998.
Development of Pain Education Materials for Health Care
Professionals and Patients. Poster Presentation at the 33rd ASHP Midyear
Clinical Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada. December, 1998.
Development of the Pain Resource Professional Training Program (PRP).
Poster Presentation at the American Society of Pain Management Nurses (ASPMN)
Annual Meeting. April, 1999.
Chronic Pain. Pharmaceutical Pearls, Nurse Practitioner Council
Lecture. March, 1999.
Traditional and Complementary Therapies for Chronic Disease. New
England Hemophilia Center Northeast Regional Conference. May, 1999.
Theoretical Basis for Alternative Therapies in Cancer Pain
Management. Rhode Island Cancer Pain Initiative. Warwick, R.I. June, 1999.
Pain Assessment, Ethical, Family and Cultural Issues in Pain
Management, Non-Pharmacological Methods in Pain Management. (Three separate
presentations at each biannual conference). Pain Resource Professional Training
Program, Providence, R.I. 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Pain Management of the Medical Patient (Part I). Brown University
Department of Medicine Noon Conference. July, 1999.
Pain Management of the Medical Patient (Part II). Brown
University Department of Medicine Noon Conference. August, 1999.
Nuts and Bolts of Pain Management (Part I). Brown University
Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. January, 2000.
Nuts and Bolts of Pain Management (Part II). Brown University
Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. February, 2000.
Surgical Case Presentation. Brown University Department of
Surgery. February, 2,000.
Acute Postoperative and Procedural Pain Management. Brown
University Department of Surgery. March, 2000.
Pharmacological Pain Management. Lecture-Seminar Series for the
Third Year Core Clerkship in Surgery. Brown University Department of Surgery:
March, 2000
May, 2000
November, 2000
February, 2001
May, 2001
Pain Management of the Orthopedic Patient. Brown University
Department of Orthopedics. May, 2000.
Pain Assessment and Management in the Elderly Population. Rhode
Island Attorney General Conference. April, 2001.
Pain Assessment and Management. Lake Sumter Community College,
Leesburg, Florida. February, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 March, 2003, 2004, 2005.
Pain Assessment and Management Florida Hospital-Waterman, Eustis,
Florida. July, 2002
Overview in Pain Management People's Medical School. November,
2002.
Painless Approaches to Consulting on Unrelieved Pain Issues.
National Association of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants, New Orleans. March,
2005.
Psychosocial Factors and Pain Assessment. American Society of
Pain Management Nurses, New Mexico April-May, 2005.
Is it Soup Yet? Neurophysiology of Pain. National Student
Nurses Conference, Fall 2007.
Under-management of Pain in the Elderly. American Association of
Legal Nurse Consultants National Education Conference, 2008.
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