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3rd Annual Celebration Dame Cicely Saunders, Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement

New Understandings of Bereavement Speaker: David E. Balk, Ph.D.

David E. Balk, Ph.D. , Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY Director, Graduate Program in Thanatology

Date: Friday, June 19, 2009 Time: 3:30-4:30 pm Presentation Lecture 4:30-5:30 pm Wine & Cheese Reception

Location: VNSNY Hospice Care 1250 Broadway (Broadway & 32nd Street) 7th Floor — Conference Room 7A Please register your RSVP to: The Rev. Paul A. Metzler, Director, Community & Program Services (212) 609-1979 or Paul.Metzler@vnsny.org

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CicelySaundersLecture VNSNY Hospice Care 2009 Lec ture S er ies

David E. Balk is Professor in the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences at Brooklyn College of CUNY and Director of the Graduate Program in Thanatology. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Handbook of Thanatology: The Essential Body of Knowledge for the Study of Death, Dying, and Bereavement (ADEC, 2007) and recently co-edited Adolescent Encounters with Death, Bereavement, and Coping (Springer, 2009). He also serves as an editor of Death Studies, a peer reviewed professional journal.

The Dame Cicely Saunders Celebration honors the life of Dame Saunders as founder of the modern hospice movement.

She established St. Christopher’s Hospice in London in 1967 to meet the physical, social, psychological and spiritual needs of dying patients and their family/friends. A nurse, medical social worker and finally also physician and writer, Saunders is acclaimed for improving end-of-life care around the globe.This event celebrates her life work on what would have been her 91st birthday (June 22, 1918 - July 14, 2005).

Dame Cicely Saunders, Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement

Please register your RSVP to: The Rev. Paul A. Metzler, Director, Community & Program Services (212) 609-1979 or Paul.Metzler@vnsny.org

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