Palliative Care Chat - University of MD Baltimore

The authors of the Lancet publication "The Key Role of Palliative Care in Response to The COVID-19 Tsunami of Suffering" chat with Dr. McPherson.

AAHPM responds to COVID: Serving patients, providers and communities - Dr. Joe Rotella, Chief Medical Officer of AAHPM, shares how the Academy has stepped up to the plate during this pandemic, providing valuable resources to the community. http://aahpm.org/education/covid-19-resources

List to Shirley Otis-Green, palliative care social worker extraordinaire discuss “Horses are Made to Be Horses: How Palliative Care Lays the Foundation for Person-Centered Care.” Shirley is President and Founder of Collaborative Caring.

Dr. Ira Byock, physician, author, patient advocate and Founder of the Institute for Human Caring at Providence St. Joseph Health, recounts why "This Pandemic is Personal," and a "Crash Course in Being Mortal." This is a MUST listen!

Dr. Arif Kamal, internationally known researcher provider, discusses the emerging roles for palliative care in a pandemic.

Listen to Dr. Michael Frakin, founder and CEO of Resolution Care Network, discuss his innovative practice model with Dr. Lynn McPherson.

Our guest today is Dr. Phyllis Chappell, who is a supportive and palliative care physician at Houston Methodist hospital and also a student in the MS and Certificate Palliative Care program at UMB. Hear her story of how she became a "wedding planner" for one of her patients at Houston Methodist. Bring tissues!

October 20-26, 2019 is National Spirituality Week. Enjoy this lively conversation between two spiritual advisors about implications of spirituality in end of life care.

Many pharmacists (especially members of the Society of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacists) made incredible presentations at PainWeek 2019 in Las Vegas recently! In this podcast they discuss their presentations, including take-away messages.

Listen as Dr. McPherson interviews Christina McCurdy, RN, MS, director of inpatient care, nursing support services, crisis intervention care and Medicare care choices at Community Hospice and Palliative Care in Jacksonville, Florida.

Episode 25 - Clinical Practice Guidelines For Quality Palliative Care An Interview With Drs. Ferrell And Twaddle. This is a fantastic interview with Drs. Betty Ferrell and Martha Twaddle, co-chairs of the 4th edition of the National Consensus Guidelines on Palliative Care!

Episode 24 - I'd Like To Volunteer For That - Innovations In Volunteerism In Hospice And Palliative Care. Volunteers play an important role in hospice, and recruiting volunteers is an ongoing effort in hospice. This podcast shares an interesting approach to using student pharmacists as hospice volunteers, and masters students as volunteers in the inpatient palliative care department!

You'll really enjoy this recounting of how research in palliative care originated, where we are now, and directions for the future. Listen to two experts in the field - Dr. Sean Morrison and Dr. Jennifer Tjia - they'll have us all wanting to do research in our chosen field!

Please join us as Dr. Scott Shreve describes the Veteran Affairs approach to hospice and palliative care.

Episode 21 - Magical, Mystical, Mischievous Methadone – Let’s Learn How To Use Methadone Safely And Appropriately! Three authors of the wonderful new article “Safe and Appropriate Use of Methadone in Hospice and Palliative Care: Expert Consensus White Paper” published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management discuss the impetus for the paper, and provide a summary of recommendations. Full tex...

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, "Palliative Care Is Going to the Dogs (and Cats!): A Palliative Care Veterinarian to the Rescue!" Dr. McPherson interviews Beth Marchitelli, DVM, a veterinarian who specializes in hospice care and in-home euthanasia with 4 Paws Farewell in Asheville, NC.

Dr. McPherson speaks with Timothy Cox, JD, Senior Director of home based-post acute care evaluation and oversight at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield in Washington DC.

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson talks with Ms. Barbara Karnes, RN who authored the book "Gone From My Sights."

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews Jason A. Webb, MD, assistant professor of medicine, psychiatry, and behavioral medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, about psyche issues related to the end of life.

Palliative Care Chat - Episode 16 - Music Therapy For Seriously Ill Pediatric Patients by Palliative Care Chat - University of MD Baltimore

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews three of her palliative care pharmacy colleagues with whom she recently co-authored a new paper titled "Ten Tips Palliative Care Pharmacists Want the Palliative Care Team to Know When Caring for Patients."

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews Leah Sera, PharmD, MA, BCPS, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, about her project on anticholinergic burden in hospice patients

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. Lynn McPherson interviews Dr. Jennifer Kennedy, who is the senior director of regulatory and quality affairs at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat Dr. McPherson interviews Chaplain Karuna Thompson and current MS in Palliative Care student Marty Crittenden. Chaplain Thompson is with the Oregon State Penitentiary and Marty Crittenden works as a volunteer at the Oregon State Penitentiary training hospice inmates in the facility to provide hospice care and volunteer services to their colleagues in the faci...

In this episode of Palliative Care Chat Dr. Lynn McPherson interviews, Edmund A. Tori, DO, FACP, CH who is the Associate Director of the MedStar Institute for Innovation (MI2) and Director of The Influence Center at MI2.