Overview
I am a palliative care physician and medical educator who takes care of patients with serious illness primarily in the hospital. I enjoy working with trainees at all levels of education on the wards, teaching primary palliative care skills, and creating curricula around this as well.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Medicine
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2024 - Present
Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care,
Medicine
Recent Publications
Innovations for the integration of palliative care for hematologic malignancies.
Journal Article Curr Probl Cancer · October 2023 Specialist palliative care provides additional support to facilitate living well with a serious illness, like cancer, even while pursuing disease-directed therapy. For patients with hematologic malignancies, integrated specialist palliative care improves s ... Full text Link to item CitePalliative care for patients with hematologic malignancies: are we meeting patients' needs early enough?
Journal Article Expert Rev Hematol · September 2022 INTRODUCTION: Palliative care for patients with cancer, and more recently for patients with hematologic malignancies, has increasingly been shown to be beneficial, with mounting evidence pointing to its vast benefits both to patients and caregivers. Despit ... Full text Link to item CiteWhy Are We Failing to Do What Works? Musings on Outpatient Palliative Care Integration in Cancer Care.
Journal Article JCO Oncol Pract · April 2022 Full text Link to item CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Duke University, School of Medicine ·
2018
M.D.