Palliative Medicine Speakers Bureau

Kate Aberger

Medical Director

Division of Palliative Care and Geriatrics

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

Justin Brooten

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wake Forest School of Medicine

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

Elizabeth Clayborne

Adjunct Assistant Professor

University of Maryland

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

Marie-Carmelle Elie

Chair Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

Jessica Fleischer-Black

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

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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

Brian Gacioch

Clinical Instructor in Emergency Medicine

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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

Michael Ray Garcia

Clinical Instructor

Univesity of Pittsburg Medical Center

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

Naomi George

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Division of Critical Care

University of New Mexico

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

Rebecca Goett

Assistant Professor & Asst. Residency Director

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

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

Carrie Harvey

Assistant Professor/ Assistant Residency Program Director

University of Michigan

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

Eric Isaacs

Clinical Professor/Attending Emergency Physician

UCSF/Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

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

Christian Jacobus

Medical Director

Blanchard Valley Health System--Bridge Home Health and Hospice

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

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

Rita Manfredi

Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

George Washington University

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

Daniel Markwalter

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow (2021-2022)

University of North Carolina

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

True McMahan

Medical Director

Memorial Care Hospice Vituity Partnership

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

Kei Ouchi

Assistant professor

Brigham and Women's Hospital

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

Tammie Quest

Director at Emory Palliative Care Center/Professor

Emory University School of Medicine

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

Maria Ramos

Program Director/ Assistant Professor

University of Puerto Rico

Link to Bio

Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise:

1. Education 
2. Quality improvement
3. Symptom management

Speaking Categories: 

1. Symptom management

Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

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

Chris Richardson

Assistant Professor/Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Mount Sinai Health System

Link to Bio

Palliative Medicine boarded?: Yes

Areas of Expertise: 

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

Speaking Categories:

1. Communication skills
2. Symptom management

Areas You’ve Received Funding: None

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