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Selected Previous Palliative Care Grand Rounds

To watch a streaming video of a previous Grand Rounds, click on the underlined title. There is a delay of a week or two before each new presentation is available.

* November 18, 2009: "Clinical Transitions and Palliative Care", Terrance O’Malley MD, North End Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

* November 4, 2009: "Developing Community Based Palliative Care in Africa", David Lee MD, Lamb Pain Foundation

* October 28, 2009: "Professional Development for Medical Educators", David H. Roberts MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Div of Pulmonary and Critical Care

* October 21, 2009: "Enhancing Empathy in Healthcare Delivery and Medical Education", Helen Riess MD,
MGH Director of Empathy Training and Research

* October 14, 2009: "My Inherited cancer syndrome, a physician’s experience", John Halporn, MD

* October 7, 2009: "Chronic Critical Illness: Triumph of technology or failure of communication",
Zara Cooper MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Surgery Department

* September 30, 2009: “The Caregiver: Implications of Family Caregiving for Clinicians. A Personal Odyssey”, Arthur M. Kleinman MD, Harvard Medical School Dept of Social Medicine

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* June 17, 2009: "Best Interest of a child: Revisited", Arden O'Donnell, MPH, MSW, LCSW and Ashley Atkins, CPNP, Children's Hospital Boston

* June 10, 2009: "Resiliency", Greg Fricchione MD, MGH Psychiatry

* June 3, 2009: "Palliative Radiation in Children and Adults", Tamara Vern DO, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care

* May 27, 2009: "Artificial Nutrition in Advanced Cancer", Ursula McVeigh MD, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care

* May 20, 2009: "End-stage liver disease...what to do when the liver fails", Sarah Slater MD, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care

* May 13, 2009: "Spirituality and Palliative Care", James Marroquin MD, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care

* April 29, 2009: "Hospice Medicare Policy: Change is on the Horizon", Melissa Wachterman MD, MGH/DFCI Pallliative Care

* April 22, 2009: "Suffering through adolescence: Transitioning from pediatric to adult palliative care", Jonathan Gully MD, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care

* April 15, 2009: "Palliating the Body's Largest Organ: Skin Issues in Palliative Care", Lindy Landzaat DO, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care

* April 8, 2009: "Isn't there anything else we can do?": The Role of Interventional Pain Techniques in the Palliative Care Patient, Mihir Kamdar MD, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care

* April 1, 2009: "To Err is Human, Even at the End of Life: Medical Error in Palliative Care", Erica Wilson MD, MGH/DFCI Palliative Care

* March 18, 2009: "Mind/Body Medicine for Cancer Patients", Ann Webster PhD, Benson-Henry Institute, MGH

* March 11, 2009: "How do I know my patient is getting better?", Eric Cassell MD, New York Hospital,
Cornell Medical Center

* March 4, 2009: "The Emerging Role of the Palliative Care Social Worker", Todd Rinehart LICSW,
MGH Palliative Care Service

* February 25, 2009: "Easing Suffering in Children with Advanced Cancer", Joanne Wolfe MD, Pediatrics,
Boston Children’s Hospital

* February 18, 2009: "Palliative Care in Situations of Conflict: Lessons from Jerusalem",
Nathan Cherny MBBS FRACP FRCP, Ben Gurion University, Jerusalem, Israel

* February 11, 2009: "Jewish Law and End of Life Decision Making", Craig Blinderman MD,
MGH Palliative Care Service

* February 4, 2009: "RFA for Cancer Patients", Debra A. Gervais MD, MGH Radiology

* January 28, 2009: "Biographical Impact of Teenage and Adolescent Cancer: Research Findings from the UK", Anne Grinyer, PhD

* January 21, 2009: "How to Reduce Unconscious Bias in Medicine", Daniel Goodenough PhD, Harvard Medical School

* January 14, 2009: "Understanding and Treating Dyspnea", Richard Schwartzstein MD, Assoc Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, BIDMC

* January 7, 2009: "Narrative Medicine: What it is, Why it Matters, and How it Can Help in Palliative Care", Suzanne Koven MD, MGH - Medicine

* December 17, 2008: "Medical Futility: Philosophy and Practice", Robert L. Fine MD,
Director, Palliative Care Service, Baylor University Medical Center

* December 10, 2008: "Teaching as a Performing Art", Charles Hatem MD,
HMS Professor of Medicine -  Mount Auburn Hospital

* December 3, 2008: "Providers and Variations in End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients," Nancy Keating MD, MWH General Medicine and Primary Care

* November 19, 2008: "Minimally Invasive Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty and its help to patients with Bone Mets", Marion Growney, NP MGH Interventional Radiology

* November 5, 2008: "End of Life Discussions and Care at the End of Life",
Alexi Wright MD, Medical Oncology DFCI.