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Integrating Specialty Palliative Care to Prepare, Improve Care, and Reduce Suffering in Cystic Fibrosis, or “InSPIRe:CF,” is a multicenter clinical trial of specialty palliative care for adults with cystic fibrosis. By embedding a palliative care specialist into the adult cystic fibrosis clinic, we hope to improve outcomes like overall quality...

Q & A with Laura Patel, MD – Chief Medical Officer of Transitions LifeCare Why did you decide to work in palliative care? When I first began in my internal medicine training, I found myself frustrated by the way our flawed systems repeatedly failed my patients. I was drawn to...

Alyssa Tilly, MD received a Collaborative Research Grant sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Medicine and Division of Palliative Medicine, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the Global Institute of Psychosocial, Palliative, and End-of-Life Care. This project aims to translate and validate the newly revised global...

Congratulations to Jennifer McEntee, MD for being appointed to the Medical Staff Executive Committee (MSEC) and thank you to departing member Gary Winzelberg, MD.  The MSEC consists of the officers of the Medical Staff, the Department Chairs, the Chief Nursing Officer, the Deans of the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry,...

UNC Palliative Care’s Kyle Lavin, MD, MPH along with Kristina Paré, BSPH, Joanna Grudziak, MD, MPH, May-Britt Sten, MSN, RN, CPHQ, Anneka Huegerich, BSN, RN, Karl Umble, PhD, MPH, Emma Twer, BS, and Trista Reid, MD, MPH, recently published the results of a pilot study evaluating family perceptions and experiences...

The latest episode of the PediPal podcast features Dr. Elisabeth Dellon, Medical Director of the UNC Children’s Supportive Care Team. Click here to listen to Episode 6: A Tale of Two Hats

Q&A with Ellen Ozier, MSW, LCSW, APHSW-C, OSW-C Why did you decide to work in palliative care?  Being a Palliative Care Clinical Social Worker is actually a second career for me. I worked as a photojournalist for many years before I decided to return to graduate school to complete my Master’s...

Heather Boykin, DNP, a nurse practitioner on the inpatient palliative care consult team with years of experience in dialysis, and Emily Chang, MD, assistant professor in the division of nephrology and hypertension, have partnered to form the Kidney Palliative Care Clinic (KPCC), a unique collaboration and the first of its kind...

Three UNC Palliative Care physicians were published in the recent special issue of the North Carolina Medical Journal focused on serious illness care in North Carolina. Drs. Kyle Lavin and Paul Zimmerman: Sidebar: Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Facilitate High-Quality Virtual Care for the Seriously Ill   Dr. Gary Winzelberg and...