Introduction to Palliative Care: Perspectives of Patients and Families

Event Information

The series continues Mondays with the following presentations:

Monday, October 5, 2015
Interdisciplinary Practice of Patient-Centered Palliative Care
Zail Berry, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Vermont
Panelists: UVM Health Network – Home Health & Hospice and UVMMC Staff

Monday, October 12, 2015
Palliative Care in the Rural Vermont Setting
Mary O. Ready, MD, Hospitalist in Palliative Care
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital

Monday, October 19, 2015
Monkey Trap: Helping Children Understand Issues of Life and Death
Virginia Fry, MA, Director of Hospice and Palliative Care Council of Vermont,
Bereavement Coordinator for Central VT Home Health & Hospice

How to Register

The Palliative Care Series is free and open to the community.  Registration is not required.

Event Sponsors and Contributors

This series is made possible through the generous support of:
UVM College of Medicine Palliative Care Student Interest Group,
Madison-Deane Initiative of the UVM Health Network – Home Health & Hospice of Chittenden & Grand Isle Counties,
UVM College of Medicine Student Council,
UVM College of Medicine Dean’s Palliative Care Collaborative,
UVM Medical Center Departments of Family Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Pediatrics,
and the Department of Medicine’s Hematology-Oncology Division