Other Educational Offerings

The Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care and its faculty also conduct other educational courses and programs
for faculty and students.

1. Palliative Care Faculty Seminar
2. MGH Palliative Care Grand Rounds
3. "Evaluating Quality of Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care"
with guest speaker J. Randall Curtis, MD MPH
March 27, 2008, 12:00-1:00pm
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium

1. Palliative Care Faculty Seminar

For Palliative Care and Hospice Clinicians, this seminar offers opportunities for individuals interested in different facets of palliative care from across the HMS institutions (including the hospice community) to come together to discuss practice, research, educations, and contemporary ideas related to end-of-life care.

The Seminar is usually in a case-presentation format, and is a venue for mutual learning, collaborative projects, and the development of a community of palliative care experts. It provides a mix of highly interactive sessions with opportunities for sharing personal experiences with more traditional didactic learning.

DIRECTORS: J. Andrew Billings, MD, and Susan D. Block, MD

WHEN: The second Friday of the month from September through May.

* February 8, 2008
* March 14, 2008
* April 11, 2008
* May 9, 2008

WHERE: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Smith Building, room 308-309 (subject to change for any given month).

LUNCH WILL BE SERVED.
RESERVATIONS ARE NECESSARY TO RESERVE LUNCH.
If you would like to attend or for further information, please call Venus Watson at 617-582-7859, or e-mail us at pallcare@partners.org.

3. "Evaluating Quality of Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care"

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Division of Psychosocial Oncology
and Palliative Care

Presents

"Evaluating Quality of Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care"
with guest speaker

J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
University of Washington

March 27th, 2008
12:00-1:00pm
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jimmy Fund Auditorium

Dr. Curtis is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and Section Head for the Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Harborview Medical Center.  He is also the Director of the Harborview/UW End-of-Life Care Research Program.  His research focuses on improving palliative care for patients with critical illness and their families and he is funded by 3 grants from the National Institutes of Health for this research.  He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and more than 60 editorials and chapters.  He also edited the text "Managing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: the Transition from Cure to Comfort" published by Oxford University Press.  he has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Roger C. Bone Award for Advances in End-of-Life Care from the American College of Chest Physicians and the Grenvik Family Award for Ethics from the Society of Critical Care Medicine.  He serves on the Executive committee of the American Thoracic Society and was elected to be President of the Society for the 2009-2010 term.

For further information or to RSVP:
Phone: 617-582-7859
venus_watson@dfci.harvard.edu

*This lecture is sponsored by a generous gift from Harvey and Andrea Rosenthal, who are committed to disseminating advances in the sciences of palliative care for patients with cancer.