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MGH Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds

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Date: Every Wednesdays
Time: 8:00 AM




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Date/Time Presentation Info Video LINK
January 14, 2026
8-9am
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

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
June 26, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Serious Illness Care

Manuel Fanarjian, MD
June 12, 2024
Tell Me About Your Parent, Tell Me About Your Child: What pediatric and adult palliative care clinicians can learn from each other, and how to teach these lessons during palliative care fellowship

Miranda Ravicz, MD
June 05, 2024
Tip of the Iceberg. Carrying the Narrative of Advance Care Decisions in Children with Medical Complexity Across Care Settings

Christine Cahaney, MD & Ruth Myles, NP
May 29, 2024
The Civilian's Guide to Palliative Care for Military Veterans

Madison Bakken, DNP, FNP-C

May 22, 2024
The Bigger Picture:
The Story of Surgical Intervention in Pediatric & Young Adult Serious Illness


Danielle Ellis, MD, MA

May 15, 2024
Revolutionizing Recovery:
A Fresh Approach to Caring for Patients with Substance Use Disorder


Addison Sember, PharmD

May 08, 2024
Trauma-Informed Care for Older Adult Populations

Monique Hedmann, MD, MPH

April 24, 2024
Shackled at the End of Life: Palliative Care in the Context of a Growing Incarcerated Geriatric Population

Dorreen Danesh, MD

April 17, 2024
"Dígame más":
Serious Illness Communication with Latino Patients and their Families


Ramon Rodriguez, MD

April 10, 2024
Palliative Care through an African Lens:
incorporating Culture and Clergy in EOL Care


Maureen Villars, DNP

April 03, 2024
Active Allyship

Rosa Terrance, CNP

March 27, 2024
Palliative Care in Glioblastoma

Presenter: John Rhee, MD, MPH


March 13, 2024

Death by a Thousand Cuts:
Opportunities for Palliative Care in Chronic Critical Illness


Katherine Walker, MD, MSc


March 06, 2024

Review of Heart Failure Management in Older Adults

Hussein Almadhoun, MD


February 28, 2024

Strengthening Palliative Care Partnerships with SLP (Part 2):
Supporting Participation of Communication Vulnerable Individuals
in Serious Illness Conversations


Audrey Cohen, MS, CCC-SLP
Sarah Gendreau, MS, CCC-SLP
Elizabeth Lindenberger, MD
Stephanie Scibilia, MS, CCC-SLP
Rachel Towbin, MS, CCC-SLP


February 21, 2024

End-of-life Decision Making for Black/African American Older Adults Living with Dementia and the Lived Experiences of their Family Caregivers

Karen O. Moss, PhD, RN, CNL


February 14, 2024

Work Sustainability

Amanda Moment, LICSW


February 07, 2024

Bridging the Gap: Palliative Care for Adults Living with Sickle Cell Disease

Sharl Azar, MD, Stephanie Kiser, MD, MPH and Michelle Diop, MD


January 31, 2024

Palliative Care for People with Dementia

Peter Rabins, MD, MPH


January 24, 2024

Chronic Pain in Aging and Serious Illness: Clinical Practice Pearls

Lisa LaRowe, PhD & Katie Fitzgerald Jones, PhD, ACHPN, CARN-AP


January 17, 2024

What we learn from listening

Anna Gosline


January 10, 2024

HIV and Aging: Caught in the In Between

Matthew Russell, MD and Virginia Triant, MD, MPH

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