July 22-25, 2012
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC

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Nonmember Rate: $595*
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

John F. Kennedy

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

Emily Dickinson

We'd never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky.

Scottish Proverb

Were it not for hope the heart would break.

Scottish Proverb

Were it not for hope the heart would break.

Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

All problems stem from a loss of hope.

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Katherine Walsh, PhD, MSW, LICSW
Associate Professor
Westfield State University

Katherine Walsh, PhD, MSW, LICSW, is a Professor of Social Work at Westfield State University in Massachusetts and has been a practicing oncology social worker for 30 years. She has held a number of clinical positions including clinical social worker at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and director of Psychosocial Services for Hospice of Hampshire County.

Dr. Walsh has developed extensive curriculum resources and teaching models in the fields of oncology, palliative and grief care, and has co-led practitioner exchange programs for NASW to China, Cambodia, and Hungary. She has published over 20 peer-review journal articles and book chapters as well as a textbook for allied health professionals, Grief and loss: Theories and Skills for the Helping Professions (2nd Edition), which includes chapters on professional development and resilience. She is a co-author of the Cancer Survival Toolbox, a C-Penn Award winning self-advocacy training program for cancer survivors and caregivers. She has served in many national leadership positions including as president of the Association of Oncology Social Work (AOSW) and on the board of directors of the Social Work in Palliative, Hospice and End of Life Care Network (SWPEN).

She has received the Project on Death in America’s Social Work Leadership Development Award, AOSW’s Oncology Social Work Leadership Award, ACS’s Trish Greene Quality of Life Award, and the Western Massachusetts Human Service Forum’s Jim Quinn Human Service Award.

Dr. Walsh received her MSW from Columbia University in New York City and her PhD from Boston College. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers.

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