Featured Speakers

Keynote Address • Friday, November 9 • 10:30-Noon
Keeping Your Life in Balance When Cloning Yourself Won’t Work

The old ways of balancing our lives focused on how to do more by working harder and faster. We’ve learned the hard way that what we have tried hasn’t worked. We are busier than ever. In this fun- and idea-filled program, life-balance expert Mary LoVerde will help you realize that even though life is whizzing by, there are specific strategies that can bring more harmony into your home and work life.

LoVerde will share a wealth of uplifting insights and innovative ideas for taking small steps in the right direction for a less stressful, more satisfying life.

Trish Greene Memorial Quality-of-Life Lecture • Sunday, November 11 • 7:30–9 am
Quality of Life for Our Patients: How Media Images and Messages Influence Their Perceptions

Ellen Carr, RN, MSN, AOCN^®, a nurse case manager at the University of California–San Diego Cancer Center, will present this year’s ONS/Trish Greene Quality of Life Lecture. In “Quality of Life for Our Patients: How Media Images and Messages Influence Their Perceptions,” Carr will use examples from literature, film, music, and more to show the effect of the media on patient perceptions of QOL.