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Previous events

October 27-29, 2016
3rd Oncology Massage Ltd Conference, Canberra, Australia: William Collinge and Maggie Donahue led a training for 40 oncology massage therapists on "Bringing Touch, Caring and Cancer Into Your Community." See the PowerPoint used in the training. William also presented a keynote on "Integrative Approaches in Palliative Care." Website.

April 30, 2016
William Collinge presented "Veterans and Their Partners: Reducing PTSD with Home-Based Intervention", based on the Mission Reconnect research, at the 23rd Annual Combat Stress Conference in San Diego. PowerPoint presentation.

December 2-5, 2014
William Collinge and Janet Kahn will present the results of the Mission Reconnect project at the AMSUS Society of Federal Health Professionals conference, in Washington, DC. Website.

September 6, 2014
Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4Us) conference hosts workshop on the TCC program. The IM4Us conference in Portland, Oregon hosted a 90 minute workshop led by William Collinge on the TCC program as a resource for reaching underserved populations. William provided a Powerpoint presentation on (1) the original TCC research, (2) the study by Mishka Cira at the National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi, and (3) the Underserved Outreach Project sponsored by the Lloyd Symington Foundation with the collaboration of the City of Hope Family Caregiver Education intitiative. Participants then sampled the instructional process used in this caregiver education program. Website.

September 21, 2013
Cancer Survivorship Retreat -- One day program for patients and their care partners in Eugene, Oregon, sponsored by the Willamette Valley Cancer Institute Foundation, PeaceHealth, and others. Led by William and Maggie Donahue, Susan Isaacs, Andrea Isaacs and Jan Stafl.

April 25, 2013
Massage Therapy Research Foundation Conference, Boston -- Presentation by William and Mishka Cira on the Touch, Caring and Cancer project conducted at the National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam.

April 18, 2013
Society for Oncology Massage -- Presentation by William and Mishka Cira on the Touch, Caring and Cancer project conducted at the National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam.

May 19, 2012
William Collinge will offer a half-day seminar on Touch, Caring and Cancer for the CLIMB for Health Professionals continuing education program, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon. Click here for details.

May 21, 2012
William Collinge will offer a free evening seminar on Touch, Caring and Cancer: A New Perspective on Caregiving, at the Eugene Public Library, Tykeson Room, from 7 to 8:30 pm. Click here for details.

January 20, 2012
William Collinge will present with Susan Bauer-Wu a workshop, "Mindfulness and Touch for Cancer Patients and Family and Professional Caregivers: Enhancing Wellbeing and Connectedness," at the Georgia Cancer Coalition Integrative Oncology Conference in Atlanta. Click here for details.

December 21, 2012
William Collinge and Margaret Donahue will present a seminar, "Family Caregiver Education Using the Touch, Caring and Cancer Program," at the Chinese Amercian Service League in Chicago, co-sponsored by the University of Chicago, with attendees from Rush University and Northwestern University. For info about CASL click here.

November 12, 2011
William Collinge will be a discussant on the panel "Massage and Energy Therapy Research", and will present with Susan Bauer-Wu a workshop, "Mindfulness and Touch for Cancer Patients and Family and Professional Caregivers: Enhancing Wellbeing and Connectedness," at the Society for Integrative Oncology annual meeting in Cleveland. Click here for details.

November 2, 2011
William Collinge was the guest speaker for an online tele-chat session on "Caring for the Caregiver" hosted by the Colon Cancer Alliance. Click here to listen.

October 19-22, 2011
William Collinge hosted an informational exhibit on The Touch, Caring and Cancer Program for professional massage therapists at the American Massage Therapy Association national convention in Portland, OR. Click here for details.

September 10-11, 2011
William Collinge will present a workshop, "Bringing Touch Into Caregiving to Reduce Patient Distress," at the "Celebrating a Second Chance at Life Survivorship Symposium" in Atlanta sponsored by the Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network. Click here for details.

June 14, 2011
William Collinge will present two seminars for palliative care personnel on "Touch, Caring and Cancer: A New Perspective on Caregiving," at the Strathcarron Hospice, in Denny, Scotland. Click here for details.

May 19, 2011
Dr. Vilma Tripodoro of the Pallium Latinoamérica Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas Alfredo Lanari, University of Buenos Aires, will present a preview of the Touch, Caring and Cancer program and talk on "Family Caregiver Participation in Palliative Care: Effects of Instruction in Simple Touch and Massage Methods for Comfort and Quality of Life" at the 12th Congress of the European Association of Palliative Care in Lisbon, Portugal. Click here for details.

May 4-6, 2011
William Collinge will present a workshop, "Touch, Caring and Cancer: Building Family Caregiver Efficacy in Supportive and Palliative Care," at the 27th Annual Conference of the Association of Oncology Social Work in St. Louis. Click here for details.

November 17, 2010
William Collinge and Leila Kozak, PhD, post-doctoral fellow in palliative care at the VA Puget Sound, will give a two-hour program on touch in caregiving to family members of veterans and active duty military personnel at the VA Puget Sound Fisher House in Seattle, 1-3 pm. Click here for details.

October 30, 2010
William Collinge will be speaking at the the conference "Living with Chronic GVHD (Graft Versus Host Disease)" in Chicago, sponsored by the Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network. Click here for details.

September 22, 2010
William Collinge will be at the Intercultural Cancer Council Regional Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer in Chicago. Click here for details.

June 9, 2010
William Collinge will be a guest on "Taking Care", BNN-TV, Boston, to discuss the Touch, Caring and Cancer program and research about the project. The hour-long program can be viewed online via streaming video at 6pm Wednesday June 9, 10am Friday June 11, and noon Sunday June 13. Click here to watch at those times.

June 3-6, 2010
William Collinge and Mary Malinski will make two presentations at the American Holistic Nurses Association annual conference in Colorado Springs, CO: An experiential workshop entitled "Reintegrating Touch into Patient and Family Care," and a research poster presentation entitled "Healing at home: empowering family caregivers to use touch as supportive cancer care." For information about the conference click here.

May 19, 2010
William Collinge will conduct an in-service presentation for the social work staff at Providence Cancer Center in Portland, Oregon. The program will focus on implementing the Center's plans to distribute the Touch, Caring and Cancer Program to new families coming for cancer treatment services. Providence Cancer Center will be the first facility in the country to make this program available to families.

May 13-15, 2010
William Collinge and Tracy Walton will give a presentation at the Highlighting Massage Therapy in CIM Research Conference in Seattle, entitled "Family Caregiver Use of Massage as Supportive Cancer Care following Multimedia Instruction." For information about the conference click here.

April 30-May 1, 2010
William Collinge and Tracy Walton gave a presentation at the Oncology Massage Healing Summit in Minneapolis, entitled "Research and Practice: Touch, Caring, and Cancer--Supporting Oncology Massage Research and Practice with an Instructional Massage Video for Caregivers." For information about the conference click here.

March 8, 2010
William Collinge gave a presentation on "Randomized controlled trial of famly caregiver instruction in touch as supportive cancer care at home" at the DEA SRO Seminar, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD.

February 18-21, 2010
William Collinge will give a presentation at the American Psychosocial Oncology Society 7th Annual Conference in New Orleans, entitled "Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Caregiver Instruction in Touch as Supportive Cancer Care at Home." For information about the conference click here.

November 13, 2009
William Collinge and Janet Kahn will give a presentation at the Society for Integrative Oncology Annual Meeting in New York, entitled "Randomized controlled trial of family caregiver use of massage as supportive cancer care following multimedia instruction," presenting findings from the Touch, Caring and Cancer program. An abstract of the presentation will also be published in the Journal of the Society for Integrative Oncology. For information about the meeting click here.

September 21 and 22, 2009
William will present two three-hour continuing education programs for nurses at the Harriet Osborn Jeckel Conference, "Practical Wisdom: Easing Suffering through Healing Presence," Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, Oregon. The programs will include an overview of the Caring and Cancer Project, the research findings, a panel discussion with couples who participated in the project, and an opporunity for pariticpants to experience aspects of the program.

September 20, 2009
William will conduct an afternoon workshop "Touch, Caring and Cancer: A New Perspective on Caregiving" at Providence Cancer Center, Portland, Oregon, for the general public. This program is geared toward patients and their caregivers. Click here for details.

September 20, 2009
William will conduct an evening seminar for health professionals and interested community members, "Touch, Caring and Cancer: A New Perspective on Caregiving", at Providence St. Vincent Hospital in Portland, OR. For details click here.

September 18, 2009
William Collinge and Mary Malinski will conduct an afternoon poster presentation at the First Providence Health System Research Meeting, held at the Providence Cancer Center, Portland, OR. This will be the first time that research findings will be presented for the Caring and Cancer Project. To view the poster, click here.