Positive Spirituality in Health & Health Care
This program is funded in part by a grant from the
Featuring Fred Craigie, PhD
Frederic C. Craigie, Jr., PhD is a faculty member at the Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Augusta, Maine. He also holds appointments as Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Visiting Associate Professor at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.
Dr. Craigie has a longstanding interest in spirituality and heath care. Over the last 25 years, he has written and presented extensively about the healing and life-giving roles of spirituality in patient care, in the experience of health care providers, and in the life and culture of health care organizations.
With the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Craigie has taught about spirituality and health care for the Fellowship and Integrative Medicine in Residency programs since 2001. He received a John Templeton Spirituality and Medicine Award for Primary Care Residency Training Programs (in conjunction with George Washington University Medical Center, Institute for Spirituality and Health) in 2002. He is also the founder of a pastoral care program at the Residency’s affiliated hospital, the organizer of an annual Maine symposium on spirituality and health care since 1987, and has served for many years as associate editor of a professional journal devoted to Christian faith and mental health.
His book, Positive Spirituality in Health Care: Nine Practical Approaches to Pursuing Wholeness for Clinicians, Patients, and Health Care Organizations, was published last year.
Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011
Time: Breakfast @ 7:45am; Business Meeting Begins @ 8:30am
Location: Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport, ME
Sponsored by: The Maine Hospice Council & Center for End-of-Life Care
Need to book a hotel for the event? There are several hotels in the area that can accommodate you.
- Hilton Garden Inn (where the event is taking place) has a special rate until June 8th at $159.00 per night
- Brewster House Bed & Breakfast has some rooms starting at $159.00 per night
- Kendall Tavern Inn Bed & Breakfast has some rooms starting at $160.00 per night
- Comfort Inn & Suites has rooms starting at $169.00 per night
The Day’s Agenda
| 7:45am | Breakfast |
| 8:30am | Business Meeting |
| 9:30am | Break & Networking |
| 10:00am | Positive Spirituality in Health & Health Care by Fred Craigie, PhD |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 12:45pm | Book Signing by author |
| books available for sale on site | |
| 1:30pm | Joe May Award & Friend of the Maine Hospice Council Award Presentations |
| 2:00pm | Panel Discussion with Moderator: Fred Craigie, PhD |
| Renee Pierce, CNA, HealthReach Hospice | |
| Elizabeth A. Keene, MA, FT, St. Mary’s Health Systems | |
| Melissa Bryant, CNA, Maine General Rehabilitation and Nursing Care at Glenridge | |
| Arlene Wing, RN, MHSA, Hospice of Southern Maine | |
| David Giansiracusa, MD, Maine Medical Center | |
| 3:30pm | Wrap-Up |
Sponsorships & Exhibitors
The Maine Hospice Council welcomes sponsorships and exhibitors . If you or your organization would like to become a sponsor or an exhibitor, you can contact the Maine Hospice Council by calling us @ 207-626-0651, or downloading one our forms.
