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Speaker: Monte Luehlfing

Topic: Caregiving as a Project - Applying Project Management to Family Care

Location: Table 100, 100 Ridge Way, Flowood, MS 39232

Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Time: 6:00 P - 8:00 PM

Cost: $35 PMICMS Members, $35 Non-members

PDUs: 1

Speaker Bio: 

Monte is a graduate of the Doctorate of Health Administration (DHA) program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC).  Monte’s doctoral project was “Investigating Barriers to Increased Use of Electronic Health Records in Rural Mississippi Hospitals.” Since graduating, he has chaired several doctoral committees for students in the program.

He is currently the Vice President-Emeritus for the Central Mississippi Chapter of the Project Management Institute. His activities with the chapter include several presentations for chapter meetings as well as participating with a group to discuss project management with students at a local high school.

He is an IT Project Manager at UMMC, primarily involved with healthcare project implementation. He has over 25 years’ experience in information technology and health information technology, leading a number of projects related to IT implementations, EHR implementations/upgrades, biomedical device integration, legacy application decommissioning, and data archiving.

He is also an adjunct instructor for the Health Informatics and Information Management (HIIM) program at UMMC, served as an adjunct instructor at the Madison, MS branch of Tulane University prior to its closing, and taught project management and IT-related courses at the Mississippi Institute of Technology Services. He is slated to teach a PMP preparation boot camp in November.

He is also involved in several community service activities, including being an advisory board member and a volunteer for his local Habitat for Humanity affiliate. He has also volunteered on numerous occasions to serve meals at the local “soup kitchen.”

About the Event:

In this highly practical and empathetic session, project managers will learn how the principles of project management can bring clarity, coordination, and compassion to the emotionally intense task of caregiving for an aging relative. From stakeholder communication to risk management, participants will see how caregiving mirrors professional project work—and how project thinking can reduce stress and improve outcomes for families.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize caregiving as a complex, dynamic project with unique goals and constraints.
• Apply core PMBOK knowledge areas (e.g., scope, cost, schedule, risk) to caregiving situations.
• Use PM tools (e.g., Gantt charts, RACI matrices, communication plans) to coordinate care effectively.
• Develop leadership qualities—like empathy, conflict management, and resilience—through caregiving.
• Reflect on how project skills can be applied in high-stakes, emotionally charged personal environments.