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Catherine adams, MD PhD

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Adams is the Chief Medical Officer of Palliative Care Partners and the Chief of Palliative Medicine at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, New York, part of the Trinity Health System. Dr. Adams completed her MD and PhD in cell biology with a focus on immunology at the University of Connecticut. She then received her training in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine at Yale University. She currently chairs the Cancer SIG for AAHPM. Dr. Adams is active in graduate medical education at Albany Medical Center and was awarded Community Preceptor of the Year by the Family Practice Residency. She is currently developing a community-based palliative care program and pursuing alternative payment models. Her special interests include advanced care planning education, ethics, and conservative kidney management. In her free time, she is camping, fishing and climbing high peaks in the Adirondacks with her 6 year old son.



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Christopher Collura, MD MA FAAP

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Collura is an assistant professor of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Science in Rochester, Minnesota. He is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, and Pediatrics. He is the medical director of the pediatric palliative care program in the Center of Palliative Medicine at Mayo Clinic and the medical director of the Neonatal ICU at Mayo Clinic Hospital. Dr. Collura graduated from Saint Louis University with a bachelor’s degree in theology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and University of Minnesota with a master’s degree in bioethics. He chairs the Pediatric Ethics Advisory Board at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Collura is the outgoing chair of the Pediatrics SIG for AAHPM and was recently elected to the executive committee for the Section of Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

  
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SANDRA GOMEZ, MD FAAHPM

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Gomez is a private practice physician and President of Symptom Management Consultants (SMC), PA, in the greater Houston area. She attended the University of Washington School of Medicine and received further training in Palliative Care at the Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice at Harvard Medical School where she received the title of Faculty Scholar. She is an adjunct Associate Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center for the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Palliative Care. SMC has worked with physicians and administrators of the two largest health care systems in Houston to develop novel programs for the seriously ill, most notably creating educational programs for nurses, physicians and other allied health professionals in crucial conversations, symptom control and advance care planning as well as launching community based consultation services for inpatient palliative care. The results of these efforts resulted in SMC receiving the prestigious American Hospital Association’s Circle of Life Citation of Honor in 2016 and an international award from the International Hospital Federation in Quality, Safety & Patient Centered Care in 2017. Dr. Gomez has recently joined Wellmed, a physician-led, physician-driven company specializing in the complete health care coordination of patients in Texas in order to launch their palliative care initiatives in Houston. She is married, has five amazing kids and lives on an 11-acre hobby farm.

  
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JILLIAN GUSTIN, MD FAAHPM

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Gustin is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, OH where she serves as Director of the Division of Palliative Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine and recently stepped down after 9 years as the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program Director. She has had a national presence in education leadership including member of AAHPM’s HPM Entrustable Professional Activities workgroup, co-chair of the Curricular Milestone as well as the ACGME’s HPM-specific Reporting Milestones workgroups. Dr. Gustin serves as a member of the AAHPM Pediatric Curriculum Workgroup. She is also an active member of the Alliance of Designated Cancer Centers’ Physician Advisory Workgroup and Improving Goal Concordant Care Workgroup. She has served on multiple administrative, clinical and education committees at her home institution of OSUWMC. Dr. Gustin graduated medical school from The Ohio State University College of Medicine, completed her Internal Medicine Residency at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC) and finished fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine (HPM) at Harvard University. Her career goals include expanding access to high-quality palliative care to patients in inpatient and ambulatory settings and increasing goal concordant care through communication skills training to physicians who care for seriously ill patients.






Mihir kamdar, MD

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

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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CHRISTINE KHANDELWAL, DO HMDC

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Khandelwal is board certified in both geriatric medicine and hospice and palliative medicine (HPM). Seven years ago, Dr. Khandelwal started at Transitions LifeCare, a non-for-profit community-based outpatient hospice program that was looking to establish an inpatient palliative pare service (PC) for a large hospital system in Raleigh, North Carolina. This PC service has become an integral part of the hospital system and for the surrounding community as well. Dr. Khandelwal believes that medical training in a community-based setting provides a realistic view of collaboration among academic centers and community partners. As Dr. Khandelwal developed to expand the inpatient PC service, she was identified early on as being an excellent educator and was approached to develop the inpatient PC service as a teaching service. Dr. Khandelwal is currently an Adjunct Professor at Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor at UNC, Chapel Hill. Dr. Khandelwal has been awarded the Wake AHEC Teaching Award and was recently inducted to the Academy of Educators at UNC. Dr. Khandelwal has used her leadership roles to expand knowledge about HPM both regionally and at the state level. Two years ago, Dr. Khandelwal was appointed as the first HPM physician to serve as a member on the North Carolina Medical Board. This is an appointed position by the Governor of North Carolina where Dr. Khandelwal has been an active voice on topics relevant to the field of HPM. As an active member of AAHPM, Dr. Khandelwal has served as the Chair for the Osteopathic SIG and last year she was awarded the Hearst AAHPM Leadership Scholars Fund to support her expanding role as a leader in the field. We look forward to Dr. Khandelwal providing AAHPM members methods to expand their HPM programs within a community-based setting.



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Laura Shoemaker, DO MS FAAHPM

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Shoemaker is a palliative medicine specialist at Cleveland Clinic. She is Chair of the Department of Palliative and Supportive Care and has been leading the Palliative Care team at Cleveland Clinic since 2016. Dr. Shoemaker graduated from the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.  She completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Palliative Medicine Fellowship training at Cleveland Clinic.  She is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Internal Medicine. Dr. Shoemaker is the holder if the Harry R. Horvitz Endowed Chair for Palliative Medicine, as well as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and a Clinical Assistant Professor for the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Shoemaker’s special interests include narrative medicine, symptom management, relationship-centered communication, end-of-life care, and business operations. She was born and raised in Northeast Ohio and resides there with her husband, 2 children, and 2 Beagles (Bosco and Lucy).

  
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LYLE S. WALTON, MD MHSA

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Walton is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Staff Physician at the Birmingham VA Medical Center. In addition to providing clinical geriatric and palliative care in the acute care setting, Dr. Walton serves as the Medical Director for the Community Based Palliative Care Program of Affinity Hospice also in Birmingham, Alabama. Within the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care (CPSC) Dr. Walton serves as Director of the Center Scholars Forum which, along with the Center Research Scholars Program, aims to cultivate and promote innovation and collaboration in the advancement of palliative and supportive care research across the University of Alabama at Birmingham and beyond. Dr. Walton is active in graduate medical education as well as research, holding appointments within the Birmingham/Atlanta Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) and the Center for Palliative and Supportive Care where he also serves as a Center Research Scholar. Dr. Walton’s research interests include health and aging policy, healthcare resource utilization and palliative care in the post-acute care setting. Dr. Walton is Board Certified in Family Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine with an advanced degree in Health Management and Policy.

  
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DAVID WANG, MD

 October 15, 22 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT Live Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Wang is Director of Palliative Medicine at Scripps Health in San Diego, CA where he leads value-based expansion of palliative services across the health system. He holds leadership roles at the intersection of emergency medicine and palliative care with the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, where he is a Hearst Leadership Scholar. Dr. Wang chairs national committees, lectures widely, and recently published his book, “Palliative Skills for Frontline Physicians.”  He has prior experience in strategy consulting, health policy, and startup advisory. Dr. Wang is board-certified in emergency medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.