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March 22, 2021 - Malignant Bowel Obstruction
Presented by Evgenia Granina, MD, and Sundeep Pandey, MD; VCU Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
April 26, 2021 - TBD
May 24, 2021 - TBD
June 28, 2021
2/22/2021 -Total Pain
Presented by Michael Dodson, MD; University of Virginia Palliative Medicine Fellowship
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1/25/2021 - Community-based Palliative Care - A Chance to Design Systems That Improve Equity
Presented by Amy Salerno, MD, MHS; University of Virginia Palliative Medicine Fellowship
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12/14/2020 - Long-term Complications in COVID-19 Infection (Case Study)
Presented by Justin Van Klein, MD; Fellow, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School
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11/16/2020 - Interventional Blocks in Cancer Pain
Presented by Meghan McAlice, MD and Faten Ragaban, MD: VCU Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows
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10/26/2020 - Palliative and End-of-Life in Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Presented by Carol Zogran, PhD, RN, PMHCNS; Clinical Nurse Specialist, Care Coordination, VCU Health
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9/28/2020 - Palliative Care in COPD: Bridging the Gap
Presented by James O'Connor, MD, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
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8/24/2020 - Systemic Racism in Healthcare
Presented by Sheryl L. Garland, MHA, FACHE, Chief of Health Impact for VCU Health System and Jason Callahan, M.Div., MS, BCC, Palliative Care Chaplain
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7/27/2020 - Palliative Care in ESRD
Presented by Jason Kidd, MD
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6/22/2020 - Substance Abuse in Palliative Medicine
Presented by Alina Fomovska, MD; University of Virginia
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5/18/2020 - Document Review and Horror Stories
Presented by Candace Blades, JD, RN
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4/27/2020 - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Palliative Care
Presented by Jerry McQuain, MD
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4/13/2020 - Symptom Management for COVID-19
Presented by Danielle Noreika, MD
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3/23/2020 - COVID-19 and Palliative Care
Presented by Danielle Noreika, MD and Candace Blades, JD, RN
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2/24/2020 - Communication in Serious Illness: Part I
Presented by Danielle Noreika, MD, Candace Blades, JD, RN and Emily Rivet, MD
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1/27/2020 - Severe depression at end of life: is mental illness ever a terminal disorder?
Presented by Paul Zelensky, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow, Class of 2020
12/12/19 - Five Key Takeaways from the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) National Seminar
Presented by J. Brian Cassel, PhD; Danielle Noreika, MD
02/14/19 - Introduction to Palliative and Supportive Care
Presented by Danielle Noreika, MD
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02/28/19 - Surgical Palliative Care
Presented by Emily Rivet, MD
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03/14/19 - Basics of Advance Care Planning
Presented by Candace Blades, RN, JD
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03/28/19 - Basics of Cancer Pain Management
Presented by Egidio DelFabbro, MD
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04/11/19 - Pediatric Palliative Care
Presented by Kelly Lastrapes, MD and Amanda Gideon, Peds Palliative NP
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04/25/19 - Safety in Opioid Use in Serious Illness
Presented by Egidio DelFabbro, MD
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05/09/19 - The Virginia Physician Order for Scope of Treatment (POST)
Presented by Danielle Noreika, MD
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05/23/19 - Helping Children of Adult Patients
Presented by Amanda Gideon, CPNP
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06/13/19 - Mindfulness and Provider Self Care
Presented by Danielle Noreika, MD
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08/08/19 - Methadone Use in Palliative Care
Presented by Egidio Del Fabbro, MD
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08/22/19 - CBD: What You Need to Know
Presented by Aron Lichtman, PhD
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Further reading - Devane, et al.
Further reading - Gaoni, Mechoulam
Further reading - Herkenham
Further reading - Lee
Further reading - Matsuda
Further reading - Mechoulam, et al.
Further reading - Munro
Further reading - Van Sickle
Further reading - Zendulka, et al.
Further reading for case presentation - Go, et al.
Further reading for case presentation - Liebling, et al.
Further reading for case presentation - Mitchell, et al.
Further reading for case presentation - Puntillo, et al.
Further reading for case presentation - Sager, et al.
09/12/19 - Outpatient Palliative Care
Presented by Brian Cassel, PhD
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09/26/19 - All of Your Patients are Delirious: What to do about it
Presented by Egidio Del Fabbro, MD
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10/10/19 - Getting Through to Physicians Resistant to Consulting Palliative Care
Presented by Emily Rivet, MD
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Further reading - Rivet, et al. and Kotter, et al.
10/24/19 - Palliative Radiation
Presented by Christopher McLaughlin, MD
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Further reading - Memantine Study
Further reading - Patchell Cord
Further reading - Quartz Whole Brain
Further reading - Bone mets
11/14/19 - Existential and Spiritual Assessments
Presented by Jason Callahan, MDiv.
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Further reading - Bereavement follow up form guidelines for completion
Further reading - Bereavement follow up form template
Further reading - Bereavement booklet