Our Mission
The Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care (HMS CPC) aims to ease suffering and enhance the quality of care for patients and their families dealing with life-threatening illness, through fostering leadership and supporting outstanding educational programs in palliative care. By educating future generations of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals, the Center serves as a national and international resource for the best practices in palliative care education.
Registration Now Open!
Practical Aspects of Palliative Care
October 8-10, 2010
Featuring:
Bernard Hammes, Ph.D
Lynn Spragens, MBA
This three-day course is designed to offer physicians and other clinicians the information and skills needed to provide high-quality, specialist-level palliative care to patients with life-threatening illnesses in a variety of practice settings. Through plenaries and workshops, participants will develop a toolbox of palliative care competencies and will learn from colleagues facing similar practice challenges.
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Latest in Palliative Care
Recent articles from the HMS Center for Palliative Care faculty:
Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non-Smal-Cell Lung Cancer
The New England Journal of Medicine
By: Jennifer S. Temel, M.D., Joseph A. Greer, Ph.D., Alona Muzikansky, M.A.,
Emily R. Gallagher, R.N., Sonal Admane, M.B., B.S., M.P.H.,
Vicki A. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., Constance M. Dahlin, A.P.N.,
Craig D. Blinderman, M.D., Juliet Jacobsen, M.D., William F. Pirl, M.D., M.P.H.,
J. Andrew Billings, M.D., and Thomas J. Lynch, M.D.
Patients with metastatic non–small-cell lung cancer have a substantial symptom
burden and may receive aggressive care at the end of life. We examined the effect
of introducing palliative care early after diagnosis on patient-reported outcomes
and end-of-life care among ambulatory patients with newly diagnosed disease... Click Here to download the full article
Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can't save your life?
The New Yorker
By Atul Gwande
"Modern medicine is good at staving off death with aggressive interventions—and bad at knowing when to focus, instead, on improving the days that terminal patients have left..." Click Here to download the full article