{"id":2733,"date":"2020-08-28T17:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/im\/people\/paul-zimmerman-md\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:24:18","slug":"paul-zimmerman-md","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/im\/people\/paul-zimmerman-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Zimmerman, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul lives with his wife and two daughters in Carrboro, NC.\u00a0 He was drawn to the field of palliative care as it seemed to be the field that best fit with his original motivations to enter the field of medicine &#8211; to help patients live their best lives.\u00a0 He enjoys getting to know his patients and their families, learning about their goals and values, and helping them achieve their highest quality of life possible.\u00a0 He enjoys traveling, hiking, camping, running, reading, and spending quality time with his family and friends. Dr. Zimmerman splits his clinical time between the adult palliative care consult service at UNC Hospital and UNC&#8217;s inpatient hospice unit in Pittsboro, NC. He is a clinician educator and spends his non-clinical time creating educational curricula and teaching on palliative care topics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recognitions and Honors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2018 &#8211; Duke Regional Hospital \u201cHospitalist of the Year\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2022 &#8211; UNC Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Teaching Award<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected Bibliography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lavin K, Zimmerman PE. Sidebar: Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Facilitate High-Quality Virtual Care for the Seriously Ill.\u00a0<em>N C Med J<\/em>. 2020;81(4):263-264. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18043\/ncm.81.4.263\">18043\/ncm.81.4.263<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2734,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[43,56],"class_list":["post-2733","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-clinical-faculty","ud_division-faculty","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paul Zimmerman, MD - Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/im\/people\/paul-zimmerman-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Paul Zimmerman, MD - 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