MedConference organized by the American Association of Medicine and the Person

2011 Program Sessions

Benefit Concert in honor of
Father Aldo Trento

Keynote: “Nanomedical Vistas… into My Heart”

Mauro Ferrari, PhD
followed by discussion

Moderator: Daniel Sulmasy, MD

Book Presentation: Enzo Piccinini: The
adventure of a friendship
(E. Bonicelli)

Marc Beauchamp, MD
Damiano Rondelli, MD

Presentation of the American Association of
Medicine and the Person (AAMP)

Nurse and midwives session
"To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort
always" – clinical cases

Cristina Benetti, RN
Maria Ciantia, CM
Elizabeth Freiling, RN
Frances McCarthy, MS, RNC

Moderator: Enrico Grugnetti, RN

Students session
“Who are our teachers?”
followed by discussion

Laurence Normand-Rivest, MD (PGY1 Family Medicine – McGill University, Montreal, CA)

Nicole Shirilla, MD (PGY1 Medicine/Pediatrics – Case Western Reserve University Hospitals and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio)

James Saint-John, MS (4th year – Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA)

Moderator: Federica Fromm, MD

“To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always”
Fr Aldo Trento

Session: “Active treatment of patients with ‘incurable disease’: what’s the point?”

Gerald Batist, MD
Antonella Goisis, MD
Anthony Lechich, MD

Moderator: Mark Basik, MD