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.

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

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