MGH Medical Grand Rounds

MGH Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine Grand Rounds
2021- 2022

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Date: Every Wednesday
Time: 8:00 AM


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Date/Time Presentation Info Video LINK
June 29th, 2022
8:00 AM
To Care is to Cure: Applying Palliative Care to Surgical Patients

Presented by: Matthew Bartek, MD

June 22nd, 2022
8:00 AM
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Decisions around Tracheostomy

Presented by:Frances Flanagan MB, BCh, BAO
Sheila Osterhaus MS, RN, CPNP-PC, CHPPN

June 15th, 2022
8:00 AM
Naming the SHAME: Talking about substance use disorder and complex pain in Palliative Care

Presented by:Charmaine Lastimoso, MPH, MSN, NP-C, CARN-AP

June 8th, 2022
8:00 AM
Narrative Medicine: Teaching Understanding, Empathy, and Social Justice

Presented by:Sophia Bellin Warren

June 1st, 2022
8:00 AM
Reframing Falls as a Transition of Care

Presented by:Julia Gallagher, MD

May 25th, 2022
8:00 AM
"There are beautiful flowers there" - Palliative Care in Latin America and the experiences of Undocumented Latinx Patients in the U.S.

Presented by:Boris Martinez Recinos, MD

May 18th, 2022
8:00 AM
Unintentional Weight Loss in Older Adults

Presented by:Tolulope Famuyiro, MD, MPH

May 11th, 2022
8:00 AM
Communication in Chaos: A Call to Action for Emergency Medicine

Presented by:Emily Aaronson, MD

May 4th, 2022
8:00 AM
Provision of safe access to opioids in patients with advanced cancer in the setting of the opioid epidemic

Presented by:Joseph Ricciutti, PharmD

April 20th, 2022
8:00 AM
Concurrent Hospice and Dialysis Care: Can it be done?

Presented by:Jessica Cruz Whitley, MD

April 13th, 2022
8:00 AM
Riding the Wave: Describing and Supporting Provider "Grief"

Presented by:
Sarah Eastland, MSW, LCSW
Hadley Bloomhardt, MD

April 6th, 2022
8:00 AM
Burnout, Shame, Vulnerability & Resilience: In the Era of COVID-19 How do we Practice Primordial Prevention?

Presented by: Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC, FAHA
March 30th, 2022
8:00 AM
Have you talked with my family? Exploring end-of-life care in the Hispanic/Latino community

Presented by:Angela Banks Paulino, MD

March 23rd, 2022
8:00 AM
Palliative Care: The Nursing Model In Practice

Presented by:Sara D'Arpino, MSN, AGPCNP-BC

March 16th, 2022
8:00 AM
Dying at home: historical, clinical, and sociological perspectives

Presented by:Helen Knight, MD

March 9th, 2022
8:00 AM
A Hidden Network of Support: Illuminating the Work of Palliative Care with Referring Teams

Presented by:Jessica Logeman, MD, MHSc

March 2nd, 2022
8:00 AM
"Don't you dare tell him that he is dying" - Practicing Palliative Care Social Work in Vietnamese Culture

Presented by:Quynh Xuan Nguyen Truong, MPH

February 23rd, 2022
8:00 AM
LGBTQ Care in Geriatrics

Presented by:Olivia Ahrendsen, MD

February 16th, 2022
8:00 AM
Managing opioid complexity in individuals with serious illness

Presented by:Jessica Merlin, MD, PhD

February 2nd, 2022
8:00 AM
Integrating Behavioral Health into Hospice and Palliative Medicine: What, Why, Who, and How

Presented by:Daniel Shalev, MD

January 26th, 2022
8:00 AM
Measuring Frailty in Older Adults: Conceptual Models, Assessment Strategies, and Clinical Implications.

Presented by:Tamra Keeney, DPT, PhD

January 19th, 2022
8:00 AM
In the shadows: perspectives of family members of people with advanced kidney disease

Presented by:Ann O'Hare

January 5th, 2022
8:00 AM
Spiritual Care for Generalists and Specialists: Integrating Research and Practice

Presented by:Sarah Byrne-Martelli, DMin BCC

December 15th, 2021
8:00 AM
Calciphylaxis

Presented by:Sagar Nigwekar, MD

December 1st, 2021
8:00 AM
Shifting the Paradigm: Leveraging a Subspecialty Framework to Target Poverty as a "Novel" Risk Factor for Outcome Disparities

Presented by:Kira Bona, MD, MPH

November 10th, 2021
8:00 AM
Project EPIC: Early Palliative Care in COPD

Presented by:Anand Iyer, MD, MSPH

November 3rd, 2021
8:00 AM
Surrogate Decision Making and Guardianship in Clinical Practice

Presented by:Nicholas Kontos, MD
Emma Melton, J.D., M.Ed

October 27th, 2021
8:00 AM
Leading Teams Beyond COVID-19: From Recuperation to Regeneration

Presented by:Michaela Kerrissey

October 20th, 2021
8:00 AM
The Existential Dimensions of Palliative Care Conversations

Presented by:Elise Tarbi, PhD

October 13th, 2021
8:00 AM
The Path to Quality End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer

Presented by:Emily Johnston, MD, MS
Prasanna Ananth, MD, MPH

October 6th, 2021
8:00 AM
Leveraging Partnerships to Realize the Human Right of Access to Palliative Care Around the World: Launch event for the MGH Global Palliative Care Program

Presented by:Bethany-Rose Daubman, MD
Mark Stoltenberg, MD MPH, MA
Pedro E. Perez-Cruz, MD MPH
Dingle Spence, MBBS, Dip Pall Med, FRCR

September 29th, 2021
8:00 AM
Training Interprofessional Teams in Primary Palliative Care

Presented by:Jennifer Walter, MD, PhD, MS

September 22nd, 2021
8:00 AM
Racial Inequity in Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine: The Importance of Closing the Gaps

Presented by:Karen Bullock, PhD

September 15th, 2021
8:00 AM
When evidence and practice intersect...

Presented by: David C. Currow BMed, MPH, PhD, FRACP, FAHMS

September 8th, 2021
8:00 AM
Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia

Presented by: Thomas Finucane

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