Richard Leiter, MD, MA
@releiter
Palliative Care physician and researcher @ Dana-Farber. Writer. Canadian living in the U.S. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸Toronto sports fan. Tweets my own. He/him/his.
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🚨 #PalliativeCare clinicians face barriers to deliver existential care d/t difficulty identifying needs, & a lack of time & relevant training➡️Elise Tarbi, PhD, APRN Caitlyn Moore lead the next top 10 tips paper in Journal of Palliative Medicine🔗: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jp…🙏Harvey Max Chochinov Elizabeth Broden, PhD, RN (she/her) ☮️ #hpm
New #hapc Fast Fact! And I love that the authorship team includes our amazing APD Andrew Lawton, MD and former and future HMS Palliative Care fellows! Lindsey Ulin, MD
Humbled by this experience to chat with the gracious hosts of the 'About Empathy' podcast. Thank you Drs. Giovanna Sirianni, Irene Ying | 應意誠, and Seccareccia for bringing attention to the unique needs and suffering of Asian immigrant families living with serious illness. Sinai Health
🚨🚨🚨New NEJM paper from Katie Fitzgerald Jones PhD, ACHPN,CARN-AP et al. When Katie and team write about the intersection of OUD and serious illness care, it’s always worth reading! Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) AAHPM CAPC
🚨🚨🚨Stop what you are doing and read this essay by Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN. Proud to call him a friend!
Proud of our new paper on social injustice and moral suffering in health care. And it was a ton of fun to write with the indefatigable Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN! HMS Palliative Care Dana-Farber News Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
want more of the Palliative Story Exchange? mark your calendar 11/9/2023 8-930PM EST Richard Leiter, MD, MA Alexis Drutchas, MD (she/her) Rachel Rusch
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day World Hospice and Palliative Care Day #MSKWHPCD #WHPCDay23 #CompassionateCommunities #MSKCME Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN MSK CME Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center #pallcare #HPM
The palliative care story exchange with Richard Leiter, MD, MA Alexis Drutchas, MD (she/her) Rachel Rusch at the 4th Annual U.S. Celebration of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day World Hospice and Palliative Care Day #MSKWHPCD #WHPCDay23 #CompassionateCommunities #MSKCME Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN MSK CME Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center #pallcare #HPM
Journal of Palliative Medicine Study: Virtual Patient & Family Advisory Councils are a way to get patients' and families' input on patient care and #PalliativeCare research initiatives liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.10… Kimberly Mendoza et al
Join us with Alexis Drutchas, MD (she/her) Richard Leiter, MD, MA Steph Kiser Kate Sciacca NP TONIGHT at 7pm for the Live Palliative Story Exchange. Please Venmo @ Kate-Sciacca-1 for tix!
Wonderful, collaborative work with KRAFT group 👏👏 Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice - AST American Society of Transplantation (AST) Tarek Alhamad Krista Lentine, MD,PhD | FASN | FAST Bea Concepcion Prince Mohan Anand Sam Gelfand Richard Leiter, MD, MA Neeraj Singh Song Ong @joeladler
Last night at Gillette, Bruce Springsteen gave a shoutout to @danafarber & Dr. Paul Richardson before singing his hit song, Thunder Road. Thank you, Bruce Springsteen!
Friends, I am so excited to share my first piece for the New Yorker about how we misunderstand and misuse CPR. CPR exists to reverse death. And reversing a death does not always mean restoring a life. newyorker.com/news/the-weeke… Department of Medicine UMass Chan Medical School
New pub dropped in Journal of Pediatric Nursing: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hIJU38hTuK0…
>40% of 277 bereaved parents felt their child suffered, but feeling prepared for EOL symptoms was associated with lower risk of perceived suffering.
@jennifersnaman Danielle D'Emilia DeCourcey
#NurseTwitter #hapc
Congratulations to our Dana-Farber colleague Narjust Florez, MD, FASCO on being named one of Newsweek’s Greatest Disruptors, recognizing her transformative work to improve lung cancer screening and reduce disparities in care. newsweek.com/2023/06/30/mag…
A huge thank you to Andrew Healey William Osler Health System for presenting today at Ethics Grand Rounds Brigham and Women's Hospital on neurologic determinations of death and building trust in the ICU.
'There are many coniditons that can help set up a [serious illness conversation] for success, including timing/triggers, tone, emotional support, who's in the room...' said Carine Davila, MD MPH from MGH Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine during the 2nd day of the Ariadne Labs #SeriousIllness Care Summit 2023.
🎉Registration open for this FREE #PalliativeCare Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center conference for all disciplines & friends🎇Faculty info coming soon🚨Share far & wide (If you are faculty you do not need to register.) Agenda available➡️mskcc.cloud-cme.com/course/courseo… MSK CME MSK Library IAHPC WHPCA