OCAMPR National Conference

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"CANCER: THE POWER OF FAITH AND PRAYER"

October 28-29, 2005
15th Annual OCAMPR National Conference
Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Brookline, Massachusetts

Preliminary Schedule

Friday, October 28

Please note all meetings and sessions are in the
Library Reading Room.


4:00 PM Executive Board Meeting-Library Reading Room
5:00 PM Supplication Service - Holy Cross Chapel
5:30-6:45 PM Registration and light refreshments (Library Reading Room)

6:50 PM Opening Prayer: His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco

Welcome: Fr. Nicholas Triantafilou, President, Hellenic College, Holy Cross School of Theology

Fr. Nicholas T. Graff, OCAMPR President


7:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Introduction and Moderator: Fr. Nicholas Graff

Keynote Speaker: Brother Charles S. Anthony
Director General, The Monastery Center of Panagia Philanthropini
Senior Member of the Board of Trustees

Education: Hellenic College class of 1982 B.A.
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology 1986 M.Div
The University of Thessalonike 1986-1988, Doctorate of Theology in Patristics

Vocation: The Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mounta Athos 1986-1991
Director General of the Monastery Center of Panagia Philanthropini, of the Sacred Monastery of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, in Ormylia Greece 1991-present (www.ormyliacenter.gr)

Topic: "Cancer: The Power of Faith and Prayer"
View the presentation outline.
7:50 PM Short break
8:00 PM

Respondents:

Medicine: Anastasios Bouras, MD (Mayo Clinic)
Psychology: John Chirban, PhD, ThD (Harvard Medical School/Hellenic College)
Religion: Rev. Kyprianos Bouboutsis, PhD

8:45-9:30 PM Interdisciplinary group discussion with panel


Saturday, October 29

Please note all meetings and sessions are in the
Library Reading Room.
The dinner is in the Maliotis Cultural Center.


8:00 AM OCAMPR MEMBERSHIP MEETING (ALL WELCOME)
Continental Breakfast and coffee will be served
9:30 AM Plenary Session #1
Introduction and Moderator: Dr. John Demakis
Speaker: Panagiotis Anastasiadis, PhD MAYO Clinic Cancer Research
10:15 AM Interdisciplinary group Discussion
10:45 AM Short Break
11:00 AM Plenary Session #2
Introduction and Moderator: Dr. John Chirban
Speaker: Georgia Photopoulos. Cancer survivor, Author, and Columnist
11:45 AM Interdisciplinary Group Discussion
12:15 PM Lunch (Library Reading Room)
Lunch Speaker:
Rev. Elias Kyprianos Bouboutsis, Ph.D.
Professor of Greek, Sociology, Ritual Studies Florida Center for Theological Studies, Miami
Infirmity and Healing in Orthodox Folk Religion

Holy Cross Bookstore will be open from 12:00 - 2:00 pm.

1:30 PM Plenary Session #3
Introductions and Moderator: Rev. George Morelli
Speaker: Roxanne Louh, PhD
Scarring, Disfigurement, Body Image and the Healing Power of Faith and Prayer.
12:15 PM Interdisciplinary Group Discussion
2:45 PM Short Break
3:00 PM Case Study: "Mary, a Young Mother Recently Diagnosed with Breast Cancer"
View the case study to be reviewed by the respondents.
Respondents:
Brother Charles Anthony
Dr. Panagiotis Anastasiadis
Georgia Photopulos
Dr. Roxanne Louh
4:00 PM Interdisciplinary Group Discussion of the Case Study
4:50 PM Memorial Service for Philip and Pheadra Moore, who bequested to OCAMPR the Funds for this conference.
5:00 PM Great Vespers, Holy Cross Chapel
7:00 PM Association Dinner, (Maliotis Cultural Center)
Dinner Speaker: Stratis Lagoutaris, MD

Topic: "That was not in my text book: living with someone with breast cancer"

Boston Attractions and Hotel Information

The OCAMPR, Hellenic College/Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts, and the OCMC Medical Missions will be co-hosting the OCAMPR Conference, October 28-29, 2005. Conference participants will arrange privately for transportation, accommodations, and food outside of Conference registration provisions.

OCAMPR offers the following Boston Hotels for Conference participants:

Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers
64 Arlington
Boston
617-426-2000 (1-800-225-2008)
First Class Convention Hotel near the public garden, Newberry Street shops and theater district. 10 minutes from Logan Airport. Tower level with concierge and extra amenities, hotel fitness center, and free parking nearby.

Holiday Inn
Boston at Brookline
1200 Beacon St.
Brookline, MA
(617) 277-1200

Other hotels may be found by using Internet search engines and listing Brookline, Massachusetts to find hotels nearby the Seminary.

Click here for the printable conference brochure and registration.