Palliative Medicine Speakers Bureau

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The Palliative Medicine Speakers Bureau is managed by SAEM’s Palliative Medicine Interest Group. This resource provides a list of experts who are available to speak on topics such as communication skills in palliative medicine, symptom management, quality improvement, and systems/pathways of care. Information in this database includes speaker credentials, positions, institutions, whether they are board-certified in Palliative Medicine, and whether they are willing to be a collaborator or a co-investigator. 

 

Full Speakers List

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    Kate Aberger

    Medical Director

    Division of Palliative Care and Geriatrics

    kateaberger@gmail.com

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills
    3. Symptom management
    4. Systems/pathways of care
    5. Quality improvement
    6. COVID

    Speaking Categories: 

    1.  Communication skills
    2. Symptom management
    3. Systems/pathways of care

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

  • Jason Bowman

    Instructor of Emergency and Palliative Medicine

    Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

    jkbowman@partners.org

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Symptom management
    2. Communication skills
    3. Systems/pathways of care
    4. Emergency-Palliative Care Research

    Speaking Categories: See Expertise, above

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education and Communication skills

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Justin Brooten

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

    Wake Forest School of Medicine

    jbrooten@wakehealth.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education 
    2. Communication skills
    3. Quality improvement
    4. Systems/pathways of care
    5. Symptom management
    6. Observation medicine
    7. Research

    Speaking Categories: see Expertise, above 

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Systems/pathways of care and Research

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Elizabeth Clayborne

    Adjunct Assistant Professor

    University of Maryland

    elizabeth.p.clayborne@gmail.com

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education 
    2. Communication skills
    3. Quality improvement
    4. Systems/pathways of care

    Speaking Categories: see Expertise, above

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Marie-Carmelle Elie

    Chair Department of Emergency Medicine

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    elie@uab.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills
    3. Systems/pathways of care 
    4. Symptom management
    5. Research

    Speaking Categories: 

    1. Hospice
    2. Communication skills

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Research

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Jessica Fleischer-Black

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine & Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Medicine

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    jfblackmd@gmail.com

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education 
    2. Systems/pathways of care
    3. Mid-career fellowship

    Speaking Categories: 

    1. Mid-career fellowship

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Brian Gacioch

    Clinical Instructor in Emergency Medicine

    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    brian.gacioch@gmail.com

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education 
    2. Communication skills
    3. Symptom management

    Speaking Categories: see Expertise, above 

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None
    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Michael Ray Garcia

    Clinical Instructor

    Univesity of Pittsburg Medical Center

    michaelraygarcia@gmail.com

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise: None

    Speaking Categories: None 

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Naomi George

    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Division of Critical Care

    University of New Mexico

    nageorge@salud.unm.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education 
    2. Communication skills
    3. Quality improvement
    4. Systems/pathways of care

    Speaking Categories: see Expertise, above 

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Health services
    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Rebecca Goett, MD

    Assistant Professor & Asst. Residency Director

    Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

    Rebecca.Goett@rutgers.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills  
    3. Symptom management
    4. Quality improvement

    Speaking Categories:

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education and Communication skills

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Carrie Harvey

    Assistant Professor/ Assistant Residency Program Director

    University of Michigan

    hcarrie@med.umich.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills
    3. Systems/pathways of care 

    Speaking Categories: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Eric Isaacs

    Clinical Professor/Attending Emergency Physician

    UCSF/Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

    Eric.Isaacs@ucsf.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills
    3. Quality improvement

    Speaking Categories: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education and Communication skills

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Christian Jacobus

    Medical Director

    Blanchard Valley Health System--Bridge Home Health and Hospice

    chj@mindspring.com

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise: None 

    Speaking Categories: 

    1.  Communication skills
    2. Symptom management

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: No

  • Marynell Jellinek

    Assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine

    LAC-USC Medical center

    mnell@aol.com

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education 
    2. Communication skills
    3. Symptom management

    Speaking Categories: None

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

  • Karen Jubanyik, MD

    Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

    Yale University School of Medicine

    karen.jubanyik@yale.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education, including use of simulation to teach primary palliative care skills to medical students and residents
    2. Communication skills:  (VitalTalk-trained)
    3. Disparities in access to hospice and palliative medicine services
    4. Collaborations with EMS
    5. Psychedelic medication for treatment of existential crisis at EOL
    6. Ethics of the use of Triage/Resuscitation Protocols in a Global Pandemic

    Speaking Categories: 

    1. Education, including use of simulation to teach primary palliative care skills to medical students and residents
    2. Communication skills - VitalTalk trained
    3. Disparities in access to hospice and palliative medicine services
    4. Collaborations with EMS
    5. Symptom management
    6. Psychedelic medication for treatment of existential crisis at EOL
    7. Ethics of the use of Triage/Resuscitation Protocols in a Global Pandemic

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education and Communication skills

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Rita Manfredi

    Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

    George Washington University

    philritas@mindspring.com

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills  
    3. Research
    4. Quality improvement

    Speaking Categories:

    1. Education
    2. Communication  skills
    3. Symptom management

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Daniel Markwalter

    Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow (2021-2022)

    University of North Carolina

    daniel.markwalter@unchealth.unc.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills  
    3. Quality improvement  
    4. Symptom management
    5. Systems/pathways of care

    Speaking Categories:

    1. Education
    2. Systems/pathways of care

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Communication skills and Systems/pathways of care

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    True McMahan

    Medical Director

    Memorial Care Hospice Vituity Partnership

    true.mcmahan@vituity.com

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education 
    2. Communication skills
    3. Quality improvement
    4. Systems/pathways of care

    Speaking Categories: see Expertise, above

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Kei Ouchi

    Assistant professor

    Brigham and Women's Hospital

    kouchi@partners.org

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: No

    Areas of Expertise:

    1. Education 
    2. Communication skills
    3. Quality improvement
    4. Systems/pathways of care
    5. Symptom management
    6. Observation medicine
    7. Research

    Speaking Categories: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills
    3. Research

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Communication skills and Research

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes

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    Tammie Quest

    Director at Emory Palliative Care Center/Professor

    Emory University School of Medicine

    tquest@emory.edu

    Link to Bio

    Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

    Areas of Expertise: 

    1. Education
    2. Communication skills
    3. Systems/pathways of care 
    4. Symptom management
    5. Quality improvement
    6. Research

    Speaking Categories: see Expertise, above

    Areas You’ve Received Funding: Education, Communication skills, Quality improvement, Symptom management, Systems/pathways of care, Research

    Willing to collaborator or be a Co-I?: Yes