Join us in person or online for Pediatric Grand Rounds in 15 with Mindy Hamilton, MD, MS! See you all soon!

We see 👀 our alumni Sonia Malhotra,MD,MS spreading some #hapc knowledge!! ❤️ 🌟

What impact does therapeutic alliance have on hospice utilization & emergency department admissions for advanced cancer patients? This secondary analysis by Sarah Bell Yael Schenker Bob Arnold
+ the CONNECT team is available in Journal of Palliative Medicine. #hapc buff.ly/3QqVOcT

Anna Donovan Ashley Youngs Lee Varelas, MD Getting started soon at #AIMW24 !

Great working with you Sonia!!

Today, we finished SurgTalk (powered by VitalTalk) for the AY 2023-24.

This is year #7 in Columbia Surgery

We trained 38 residents (out of 35 gen surg and 12 CT surg) in 8 sessions (81%).

'I would recommend this training to others' Score was 4.79/5!!

Outgoing and incoming Pitt Medicine Chiefs chief residents at #AIMW24 !! So proud of these amazing humans. Pitt General Internal Medicine PittDeptofMed

Exciting day with admitted students…showing off what we do…a passion I started in fellowship teaching about Hazards of Hospitalization which continues today…so much fun!! Teaching with Dr. Belland Mount Sinai GeriPal

Thanks to the hosts and visiting profs who have participated in this program. Helping to create national connections in palliative care research! The National Institute on Aging (NIA) MGH Center for Aging and Serious Illness (CASI) Mount Sinai GeriPal UCSF Geriatrics Dio Kavalieratos and many more!

Congrats to Hannah Reuman, MD, for successfully defending her Master's in Medical Education thesis yesterday! Reuman is a former CHP resident and current palliative care fellow. She is pictured here with mentor Amanda Brown, MD.
UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Spotlight on Dr. Harris' study determining the best way to communicate about uncertainties surrounding illness & respond to parental psychological distress, during prenatal cCHD diagnosis. Project supported by the National Palliative Care Research Center: buff.ly/4cEZNfh

Outstanding day with Dr. Carney and our chiefs, Drs. Santos and Liang!! Thx u María for sharing your wisdom! Mount Sinai GeriPal

🗓️ Join us at noon on Tuesday, 04.16.24, for the next DOM Grand Rounds!

Tuesday's MGR will be the annual Tisherman Lecture presented by Dr. Madeline Li from UofTPsychiatry on medically assisted dying in Canada.

For the link, visit dom.pitt.edu/grandrounds/.

A review of PaRC's first year of our Junior Visiting Professor Program--'Implementing a Palliative Care Junior Faculty Visiting Professor Program: Pearls and Pitfalls'-- has been published, authors include Dr. Jennifer Seaman, Risa Wong, Yael Schenker. buff.ly/4cMufnT

🥳Congratulations to our fellow Hannah Reuman, MD (and now MS!) for successfully defending her Masters in Medical Education thesis today!🙌 Her project to improve pediatric resident physician coping with patient death is AMAZING! #hapc #pedpc We’re so proud! 🥹

VitalTalk’s Navigating Serious Conversation course is the perfect tool to guide you through your advance care planning conversations as we approach National Healthcare Decisions Day! #NHDD #Advancecareplanning #VitalTalk

Congratulations, Dr. Laura Gelfman, our new Vice Chair of Quality and Clinical Innovation!

In her new role, Dr. Gelfman will ensure that we are providing the highest quality and most equitable care to our older adult patients, those with serious illness, and their caregivers.

Less is more in your presentation slides, illustrated in an eye tracking study.

Shown only one bullet point, students consistently read the whole bullet.

Shown lots of bullet points, students skimmed and inconsistently read.

1 min video summary:
youtube.com/shorts/z--JAH3…

.Jane Schell has been appointed as Medical Director of the UPMC Palliative and Supportive Institute. Congrats, Dr. Schell! 🎉

Last but not least, Dr. Yacono here showing us the importance of palliative care involvement on cariogenic shock patients on MCS. UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute PittDeptofMed Pitt General Internal Medicine Pitt Cardiology