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MGH Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds

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Time: 8:00 AM




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Date/Time Presentation Info Video LINK
March 25, 2026
The Physiology of Aging

Craig A. Cromer, MD

Meeting ID: 815 0864 7916
March 18, 2026
Death, Dying and Meaning-Making in Islam

Fatimah Sajjad, MBBS

March 11, 2026
In the Eye of the Beholder: Common Ophthalmologic Conditions in Older Adults

Corinne R. Corbett, MD

February 25, 2026
Specialized Mental Health Care for Caregivers

Evan Plys, PhD, ABPP & Maggie Syme, PhD, MPH

February 18, 2026
Explaining, Framing, Deciding: Preliminary Themes from Real-World Anti-Amyloid Therapy Decision-Making Encounters in Early Alzheimer's Care
&
Enhancing Self-Management During Immunotherapy Among Patients with Advanced Cancer and their Caregivers


Joanna Paladino, MD & Laura Petrillo, MD

February 11, 2026
Updates on detection and treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Esther Oh, M.D., Ph.D.

January 28, 2026
Delirium "in the Round": Evaluating and Managing Delirium from Different Professional Perspectives

Alice Flaherty, MD, PhD; Esteban Franco Garcia, MD; Courtney Gilbert, MD; Colleen Gonzalez, DNP, RN, NE-BC; Felicia Smith, MD

January 21, 2026
Palliative Care and Child Maltreatment Concerns: Not Such Strange Bedfellows?

Ross W. Cleveland, MD

January 14, 2026
Person-centered treatment decision-making in kidney failure

Barnaby Hole, PhD, MBChB & Lucy Selman, PhD, MPhil

January 7, 2025
From Hospital Hallways to Street Corners: Expanding Access to Compassionate End-of-Life-Care

Naheed Dosani, MSc MD CCFP(PC) FCFP BSc



December 17, 2025
Designing and Testing Scalable Interventions to Improve the Care of Older Adults

Christy Cauley, MD MPH; Sevdenur Cizginer, MD MPH AGSF
Not Available
December 3, 2025
Working and Learning Together: Leveraging Longitudinal Partnerships to Expand Palliative care in the Caribbean
Ramon Yacab, MD, Mark Stoltenberg, MD, MPH, MA, Owen Gabriel, MD, Stacey Chamely, BSc, MB,BS, MSc, Bethany-Rose Daubman, MD


November 19, 2025
New Evidence-based Ways of Talking about Palliative Care

Anthony Back, MD; Mariam Grant, DNP, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN


November 12, 2025

Inclusive Facilitation: Removing barriers to Participation and Disagreement

Stephen Berns, MD; Lindsay Dow, MD MS
November 05, 2025
An Interactive Discussion of How Ageism Affects Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine

Ashton Applewhite
October 29, 2025
Effective Communication - When we're stressed, emotional, burned out, or otherwise not at our best

Elise Carey, MD, FAAHPM, FACP
October 22, 2025
Re-examining the Holy Grail: How Should Goal-Concordant Care Be Measured?

Isaac Chua, MD, MPH
October 15, 2025
An Interactive Discussion of How Ageism Affects Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine

Ashton Applewhite
Cancelled
October 08, 2025
Teach Like a Champion: Knowledge Building in Medical Educator Spaces

Sadie Mccleary, MA; Hannah Solomon, MA
October 01, 2025
Older Adults with Cancer

Tammy Hshieh, MD MPH
September 24, 2025
The Hidden Work of Noticing and Responding to Suffering

Elizabeth Broden Arciprete, PhD RN CCRN CHPPN
September 17, 2025
How Medicare Advantage is Shaping Serious Illness Care

Claire K. Ankuda, MD MPH MSc
June 18, 2025
Beyond the MMSE: Integrating Modern Cognitive Screening into Geriatric Practice

Serge Samaha, MD
June 09, 2025
Prognostic Uncertainty: How Ambiguity Compounds Inequity and Narrative

Niki Vora, MD, MSc
June 04, 2025
"Mind the Gap": The role of perceived suffering in Pediatric Critical Care and End-of-Life Decision-Making

Karolina Grekov, MD
MAY 28, 2025
Who is helping us? The transition from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to home

Rachel Deming, MD
MAY 21, 2025
It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Palliative Care for Trauma Patients

Sofia Wronski, CNP
MAY 14, 2025
Verse and Vitals: Exploring the Potential Role for Poetry in Modern Medical Practice

Brandon Turner, MD, MSc
MAY 07, 2025
Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation in Older Adults

Andrew Murphy, MBBCh
April 30, 2025
No EVENT No Event
April 23, 2025
Am I Tripping Out? An Overview of Psychedelics for Pain Management

Abby Thomas, PharmD
April 16, 2025
The Hospice Quality Conundrum: An Incentive Structure in Tension with Delivery of High-Quality End of Life Care

Margaret "Meg" Krasne, MD, MP
April 09, 2025
What's in a Name? Palliative or Supportive Care

Lindsey Ulin, MD
April 02, 2025
Increasing Equitable Access to Palliative Care for All

Pablo da Silva, MD, MPH
March 26, 2025
On Treating the Patient: When and How to Think About Amyloidosis

Blossom Tewelde, MD
March 19, 2025
Countertransference in Palliative Care: A Parent-Provider's Perspective

Brittany Gummere, MSW, LCSW
March 12, 2025
Designing (and Redesigning) Serious Illness Conversation Tools to Facilitate Engagement for All

Carine Davila, MD, MPH, Erik Fromme, MD, MA, and Joanna Paladino, MD
March 05, 2025
Heat Vulnerability in Older Adults: Exposure, Sensitivity, and Adaptive Capacity to Extreme Heat

Melanie Haines, MD
February 26, 2025
Innovating for Equity: Technology's Role
in Transforming Pediatric Palliative Care


Toluwalase Ajayi, MD FAAP
February 19, 2025
Palliative Care for Parkinson's Disease:
Building Evidence and Changing Culture to Foster A Higher Standard of Care


Benzi Kluger, MD, MS
February 12, 2025
Caring for Patients with Disabilities in the Palliative Care Setting

Dorothy Tolchin, MD, EdM
January 29, 2025
"eyeball test": Measuring Frailty from Big Data to the Clinic

Ariela Orkaby, MD, MPH
On-Demand video is Not Available.
January 22, 2025
Kidney Supportive Care: Innovative programs to improve patient-centered care

Emily Lu, MD
Lisa Maurer, LCSW, ACSW
Jane Schell, MD, MHS
January 15, 2025
Addressing Loneliness and Social Isolation in Serious Illness

Ashwin Kotwal, MD, MS
January 08, 2025
Unpacking Uncertainty: Narrative and Identity in Complex Decisions

Kate Nelson, MD PhD
No Recording
December 18, 2024
Supporting Innovation in Identification of Palliative Needs:
Implementing the HOMR Tool


James Downar, MDCM, MHSc, FRCPC,
December 11, 2024
Becoming Conflict Resilient: The What, Why, & How
for Managing Difficult Conversations At Work and Home


Bob Bordone, JD, and Joel Salinas, MD
December 04, 2024
Ratio and Writing in Medical Educator Spaces

Sadie McCleary, MA & Hannah Solomon, MA

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November 27, 2024
NO LIVE . NO EVENT - Happy Thanksgiving! No Event
November 20, 2024
Event Updates: MGH Palliative Grand Rounds: Canceled
No Event
November 13, 2024
Amplyfying Voices in Care: Understanding Nurses' Roles as Psychosocial Interventionists and the Psychosocial Needs of African American Parents in Pediatric Oncology

Ijeoma Julie Eche-Ugwu, PhD, MPH, FNP-BC, AOCNP, CPHON, BMTCN
November 06, 2024
NO LIVE . NO EVENT .
October 30, 2024
Words Matter: Cross Cultural Negotiations in Clinical Ethics

Nneka Sederstrom, PhD, MPH, MA, FCCP, FCCM
October 23, 2024
Hoping for a Miracle and Medical Decision-Making:
Miracle Literacy Training for Clinicians


Sarah Byrne-Martelli, DMin BCC-PCHAC, and Edward PeÑate DMin BCC
October 16, 2024
Novel Models of Delivering Early Integrated Palliative Care: Findings from the STEP-PC and REACH-PC Trials

Jennifer Temel, MD & Joseph Greer, PhD
October 09, 2024
Outpatient Palliative Care Education and Training: A Call to Action

Harry Han, MD
October 02, 2024
Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-Cell Therapy: Integrating Palliative Care

P. Connor Johnson, MD
September 25, 2024
A View from the Budside: A Clinical Approach to Medical Marijuana in Geriatrics

Ryan Zaklin, MD, MA
September 18, 2024
Prolonged Grief Disorder: A primer for the palliative care team

Christopher Magoon, MD
September 11, 2024
Accusations of Abandonment: A structural, trauma-informed, psychodynamic approach

Shareef Sam Tanyos, MD

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