On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying in America
Agenda

Welcome and introduction                           Mary Alice Williams
Bill Moyers (pre-taped)
                
Video: Highlights from ON OUR OWN TERMS

Panel Discussion: Self and Community               Mary Alice Williams
* Coalition building and choosing a focus          Dr. Ira Byock
* Surveying and assessing your community           Myra Christopher
* Community action                                 Frank Ostaseski
                                                   The Rev. Wayne Muller

Audience Q & A (phones/faxes/emails)
                                                      

Panel Discussion: Volunteerism                     Mary Alice Williams
* How to increase understanding and                Dr. Ira Byock
  motivate the public to take action               Myra Christopher
                                                   Frank Ostaseski
                                                   The Rev. Wayne Muller

Audience Q & A (phones/faxes/emails)


Panel Discussion: Educating professionals           Mary Alice Williams
* Educating the healthcare community                Edwina Taylor
                                                    Dr. Linda Emanuel
                                                    Dr. Richard Payne
                                                    

Audience Q & A (phones/faxes/emails)                    
                                                     
Review of the ON OUR OWN TERMS                     Mary Alice Williams
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Dr. Ira R. Byock is Director of The Palliative Care Service, Founder and 
Principal Investigator of the Missoula Demonstration Project in Missoula, MO.

Myra Christopher is President of the Midwest BioEthics Center, and Program 
Officer for the Robert Wood Johnson FoundationŐs Community-State 
Partnerships to Improve End-of-Life Care.

Dr. Linda Emanuel is Vice-President, American Medical AssociationŐs Ethics 
Standards Division, head of the Institute for Ethics.

Rev. Wayne Muller is Senior Scholar of the Fetzer Institute, therapist and 
author of "Sabbath," "How, Then, Shall We Live?" and the national bestseller 
"Legacy of the Heart." 

Frank Ostaseski is Director of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, CA. 

Dr. Richard Payne is Chief of Pain and Palliative Care Service at Memorial 
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. 

Edwina Taylor, RN is Palliative Care Specialist at Cooper Green Hospital in 
Birmingham, AL. 

Videconference Moderator Mary Alice Williams is an Emmy-award-winning 
journalist.

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