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Home Challenges in Geriatric Practice Conference Contact Us Community Education Fellows Geriatric Clinical Services Give to the Center for Aging and Health Health Professionals MEDI286 Course Online Learning Patients Research Residents Students Webage	The 2008 - 19th Annual Challenges in Geriatric Practice Conference, February 22 - February 23, 2008 The keynote speaker was Kenneth Steinweg, MD, Director, Geriatric Division, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC Smudge, the comfort dog, whose professional capacities were discussed in a break-out session at the conference called "Benefits of Therapy Dogs." Above, a conference participant picks up her packet of information at the 2008 conference Above, Gary Winzelberg, MD, faculty member in UNC Chapel Hill's Division of Geriatric Medicine, talks on "Advance Care Planning in North Carolina: 2008 Update." At this point in the lecture he was discussing how health professionals can elicit patients' care goals and treatment preferences. Link to the 2008 geriatric practice conference brochure   Last updated 5/14/2008.
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