Keynotes

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Kimberly A. Curseen, MD FAAHPM

 October 5  12:00 AM - 11:59 PM CT On-Demand

OVERVIEW

Dr. Curseen serves as the Director of Supportive and Palliative Care Outpatient Services for Emory Healthcare and the director and primary provider for the supportive oncology clinic. She is board certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and hospice and palliative medicine. Dr. Curseen is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Prior to transitioning to Emory she was the developer and director of Geriatric Palliative Care program for Don W. Reynolds Center on Aging in the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and an inpatient palliative care attending. Dr. Curseen completed her medical school training at Virginia Commonwealth University and completed internal medicine residency training at Yale University. She completed fellowship training in geriatrics and hospice and palliative medicine at University Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Curseen was also a recipient of HRSA Geriatric Career Development Award 2010.



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Vicki a. Jackson, MD MPH FAAHPM

 October 14  6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT On-Demand

OVERVIEW

Dr. Jackson is the Blum Family Endowed Chair in Palliative Care and the Chief of the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. She also serves as the Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care. She is the lead palliative care Investigator on several federally funded projects examining early integrated outpatient palliative care for patients living with cancer. In 2019, Dr. Jackson won the prestigious Harvard Medical School A. Clifford Barger mentoring award. She is the co-author of the book Living with Cancer: A step by step guide to coping medically and emotionally with a serious diagnosis, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.





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Mihir Kamdar, MD

 October 14  6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT On-Demand

OVERVIEW

Dr. Kamdar is the Section Head for Palliative Care in the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He is dual trained in both palliative care and interventional pain. His clinical and research interests center on the design of innovative models of care delivery for palliative care, with a particular focus on early palliative care interventions, refractory cancer pain, and the use of digital therapeutics and artificial intelligence in serious illness. 

  
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Jean S. Kutner, MD MSPH FAAHPM

 October 21  6 - 6:45 PM CT Live Watch Party

OVERVIEW

Dr. Kutner is a tenured Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (UCSOM). Dr. Kutner received her MD from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF)and completed residency training in internal medicine at UCSF. She subsequently completed a NRSA primary care research fellowship, earning an MSPH degree with honors, and a fellowship in geriatric medicine at UCSOM. She is Board Certified in internal medicine, geriatric medicine and hospice and palliative medicine. Her research focuses on improving symptoms and quality of life for people with serious advanced illness and their family caregivers. Dr. Kutner is Co-Chair of the NIH-funded Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC). She was a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Transforming End of Life Care Committee, is a Past-President of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and is President of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM). She served as head of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSOM from 2002–2014 and was appointed the inaugural Chief Medical Officer, University of Colorado Hospital/UCHealth in 2014.

  
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Katie Neuendorf, MD FAAHPM

 October 12  12:00 AM - 11:59 PM CT On-Demand

OVERVIEW

Dr. Neuendorf completed residency training in internal medicine at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She pursued hospice and palliative medicine fellowship training at the Medical College of Wisconsin and joined Cleveland Clinic as an inpatient palliative medicine physician over 10 years ago. Dr. Neuendorf has had various leadership roles in that time, including Medical Director for the Center for Excellence in Healthcare Communication, Associate Chief Experience Officer and currently Fellowship Director. She also serves as the Associate Leader for the Department of Palliative & Supportive Care, which obtained its department status earlier this year. In her current roles, Dr. Neuendorf is tasked with elevating professional development at all stages and, implementing meaningful initiatives. Dr. Neuendorf has given numerous presentations and workshops to both a national and international audience on relationship-centered communication and leadership. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Palliative Care and the Chair-Elect of AAHPM’s Workforce and Career Development Strategic Coordinating Committee. It is her extensive work in communication and palliative care that led AAHPM to name her an Inspiring Leader Under 40 in 2015.




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Tammie E. Quest, MD FAAHPM

 October 6  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Watch Party

OVERVIEW

Dr. Quest is the Montgomery Chair in Palliative Medicine and Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is the Chief of Palliative Medicine for the Division of Palliative Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine. She is the Past President of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Director of the Emory Palliative Care Center for Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC). She is the Chair of Georgia’s Palliative Care and Quality of Life Council. Her active education and research interests include emergency medicine and palliative care, advance care planning and care for serious illness in older adults. She is the recipient of multiple NIH grants and foundation funding to support innovations in palliative care She is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

  
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Christian T. Sinclair, MD FAAHPM

 October 8  12:00 AM - 11:59 PM CT On-Demand

OVERVIEW

Dr. Sinclair is an Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Kansas Health System. His contributions to the field of hospice and palliative care have focused on using social media as a public health tool through his work as Editor-in-Chief of the website Pallimed. In 2016, he served as president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

  
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Bethany Cox Snider, MD HMDC FAAHPM

 October 19  12:00 AM - 11:59 PM CT On-Demand

OVERVIEW

Dr. Snider is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Hosparus Health, a not-for-profit, community-based hospice and palliative care organization providing care to over 1600 patients daily. She also serves as adjunct faculty for the University of Louisville’s hospice and palliative medicine fellowship. Dr. Snider earned her medical degree from the University of Kentucky followed by residency training in internal medicine at the University of Kentucky, where she served as Chief Resident of the primary care track. She then pursued a hospice and palliative medicine fellowship with Hospice of the Bluegrass (now Bluegrass Care Navigators). Dr. Snider joined Hosparus Health directly out of fellowship as associate medical director and oversaw home hospice training for all fellows. She was first promoted to Senior Medical Director and then Chief Medical Officer in February of 2018. Dr. Snider’s special interests lie in outreach and education of the community along with development of novel programs to optimize the patient experience. She is currently serving as chair of the Leadership and Development Committee for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), member of the AAHPM Hospice Medicine Council and is serving a 3-year term on the Kentucky Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Advisory Council as appointed by the Governor. She was also recently named one of AAHPM’s Emerging Leaders in the field of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Most Admired Woman in Healthcare by Today’s Woman magazine, Adjunct Faculty of the year by UofL medical students, and Top 40 under 40 by Louisville Business First magazine. Dr. Snider was born and raised in Kentucky and lives there with her husband John and their children John Mark and Elizabeth.





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Martha L. Twaddle, MD FACP FAAHPM HMDC

 October 6  11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Watch Party

OVERVIEW

Dr. Twaddle currently serves as the Medical Director for Palliative Medicine & Supportive Care at Northwestern Medicine – North Region. Her academic work includes developing curriculum, guidelines and models of care for healthcare professionals to provide care for the seriously ill in all settings. In addition, at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, she works with teams that are evaluating the impact of communication skills training on healthcare culture along with creating and testing systems of care for seriously ill people and their families across settings of care. On behalf of AAHPM, Dr. Twaddle served as the Co-Chair for the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, which revised the clinical practice guidelines for the field and published in October 2018. In 2013, she was named one of the 30 most influential visionaries in hospice and palliative medicine and 2019 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the AAHPM. Dr. Twaddle served on the AAHPM Board of Directors, 1997-2004, and as President, 2002-2003. She was honored with the inaugural AAHPM Josefina B. Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician Award in 2005. Dr. Twaddle was recognized in 2016 as a Distinguished Alumni of Purdue’s College of Science and “an exemplary educator and pioneering contributor to end-of-life care” as the recipient of the Compassion in Action Award by Hospice of the Valley and Santa Clara University in 2015. Dr. Twaddle received her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed her residency in internal medicine through Northwestern University McGaw School of Medicine. She currently serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and is board certified in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.

  
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Rodney O. Tucker, MD MMM FAAHPM

 October 21  6:00 PM - 6:45 PM CT Live Watch Party

OVERVIEW

Dr. Tucker is a native Alabamian who graduated from medical school at UAB in 1989 and is now board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. After a career in private practice, home care and hospice services, Dr. Tucker returned to his alma mater in 2002. Since that time, he has been active at UAB in the development of a comprehensive clinical, educational and research program in palliative care, including the Southeast Institute for Innovation in Palliative and Supportive Care at UAB. Serving currently as the Director of the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care Dr. Tucker also completed his Masters in Medical Management at the University of Southern California in 2009. At UAB, Dr. Tucker has provided leadership in the opening of a 12-bed inpatient palliative care unit in 2006 and in the development of an ambulatory HIV palliative care clinic in the past. The UAB Center provides care for over 3,000 new patients annually and is currently a CAPC designated Palliative Care Leadership CenterTM. Dr. Tucker has been an active member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Center for the Advancement of Palliative Care (CAPC) for over a decade, having served in several leadership roles in the Academy including serving on the Board of Directors since 2014. He has participated in the education and mentorship of over 300 fellow learners and health care systems over the past decade and currently holds the Ritchie Endowed Chair in Palliative Care Leadership at UAB. From 2013-2018, Dr. Tucker also served in the role of Chief Experience Officer for UAB Medicine. In that role Dr. Tucker worked with Alabama’s largest employer in the practice of evidence-based leadership and communication to enhance the patient experience in the setting of a changing healthcare environment. Currently Dr. Tucker serves as the Chairman of the State of Alabama Advisory Council on Palliative Care and Quality of Life as well as the President of AAHPM beginning in March of 2020.

  
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JOanne Wolfe, MD MPH FAAHPM

 October 4  5:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Wolfe is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Palliative Care in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Director of Palliative Care at Boston Children’s Hospital and is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. In addition to providing clinical pediatric palliative care, Dr. Wolfe directs a research program focusing on easing suffering and promoting wellbeing in children with serious illness and their families and co-directs the Pediatric Palliative Care Research Network. Dr. Wolfe is currently serving as the immediate past president for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.