Palliative Care Education and Practice (PCEP) | HMS Center for Palliative Care

Course directors

Vicki A. Jackson, MD, MPH, FAAHPM

Blum Family Endowed Chair in Palliative Care

Chief, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Co-Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jennifer M. Snaman, MD, MS, FAAHPM

Attending Physician, Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston Children's Hospital

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

James A. Tulsky, MD, FAAHPM

Poorvu Jaffe Chair, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Chief, Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Co-Director, Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Christina K. Ullrich, MD, MPH, FAAHPM

Senior Physician, Pediatric Palliative Care and Pediatric Hematology Oncolgy, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)

Attending Physician, Clinical Director, Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT), Boston Children's Hospital (BCH)

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Core faculty

Danielle D'Emilia DeCourcey, MD, MPH

Associate Chief, Division of Medical Critical Care, Boston Children’s Hospital

Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Juliet Jacobsen, MD, DPH

Attending Physician, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Joshua R. Lakin, MD

Attending Physician, Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Palliative Care Consultant, Population Health Management, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Sue E. Morris, PsyD

Director of Bereavement Services, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center

Karen A. O'Brien, MD

Director, Inpatient Palliative Care Team, Massachusetts General Hospital

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Arden O'Donnell, MPH, MSW, LICSW

Former Palliative Care Social Worker, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Nick Purol, MSW, LICSW

Clinical Social Worker, Pediatric Advanced Care Team, Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Director of the Pediatric Social Work Fellowship, Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship

Barbara Reville, DNP, ANP-BC, ACHPN

Former Nursing Director, Adult Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Former Director, Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing Fellowship, DFCI

Jane deLima Thomas, MD, FAAHPM

Clinical Director, Adult Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center

Associate Director, Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship

Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Faculty

Janet L. Abrahm, MD

Former Chief, Division of Adult Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Vanessa Battista, DNP, MBA, CPNP

Senior Nursing Director of Palliative Care, Director, DFCI/BWH Adult Nurse Practitioner Fellowship

Rachelle Bernacki, MD, MS

Director of Quality Initiatives, Division of Adult Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Associate Director, Serious Illness Care Program, Ariadne Labs

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Heather A. Carlson, MSN, APRN, ACHPN

NP Lead, Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital

Bethany-Rose Daubman, MD

Attending Physician, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jeffrey L. Greenwald, MD

Teaching Hospitalist, Inpatient Clinician Educator Service, Massachusetts General Hospital

Lead Physician, Partners Healthcare, High Performance Medicine Team on Readmissions

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Michelle Jacobo, PhD

Director of Psychology Services

Senior Psychologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Alison R. Kavanaugh, MSN, ACNP-BC, ACHPN

NP Lead, Inpatient Palliative Care consult service, Massachusetts General Hospital

Kate Lally, MD

Senior Physician, Clinical Director of Ambulatory Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Kathleen Lee, MD

Clinical Chief, Section of Palliative Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Anna "Nina" C. Muriel, MD, MPH

Chief, Division of Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Nicholas Purol, MSW, LICSW

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT), Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital

Michael W. Rabow, MD, FAAHPM

Director, Symptom Management Service, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Medical Director of Palliative Care, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Director, The MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care at UCSF/Mount Zion

Associate Chief of Education & Mentoring, Division of Palliative Medicine

Helen Diller Family Chair in Palliative Care

Professor of Clinical Medicine and Urology, University of California, San Francisco

Elizabeth M. Rickerson, MD

Palliative Care Physician, Division of Adult Palliative Care, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Pain Management Physician and Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Instructor in Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Mark Stoltenberg, MD, MPH, MA

Attending Physician, MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriatrics

Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH

Chair of Pediatrics, Mass General for Children, Massachusetts General Hospital

Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Carrie C. Wu, MD

Psychiatrist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Holly Yang, MD, HMDC, FACP, FAAHPM

Palliative Care Physician, Scripps Mercy Hospital

HPM Fellowship Program Co-Director at Scripps Mercy Hospital for the UCSD/Scripps Health HPM Fellowship Program

Disclosure policy

In accordance with the disclosure policy of the Harvard Medical School as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), course planners, speakers, and content reviewers have been asked to disclose any relationships they have to companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. In addition, faculty have been asked to list any off-label uses of pharmaceuticals and/or devices for investigational or non-FDA approved purposes that they plan to discuss.

Disclaimer

CME activities accredited by Harvard Medical School are offered solely for educational purposes and do not constitute any form of certification of competency. Practitioners should always consult additional sources of information and exercise their best professional judgment before making clinical decisions of any kind.