Keynote speaker:

Judith Nelson, MD, JD
Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine;
Chief, Supportive Care Service,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Biography:

Dr. Nelson is a nationally recognized expert in the field of Chronic Critical Illness and Palliative Care Medicine.  She is Chief of the Supportive Care Service and Attending Physician on the Critical Care Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Nelson received her JD from Harvard Law School, and MD from New York University School of Medicine.  She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine.  Dr. Nelson’s research, educational, and clinical interests relate to systematic integration of palliative care with intensive care and with oncologic care. Dr. Nelson received a Faculty Scholar Award from the Soros Foundation’s Project on Death in America, the Roger Bone Award for Advances in End-of-Life Care from the American College of Chest Physicians, the Grenvik Family Award for Ethics from the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Pioneering Spirit Award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and Harvard Medical School’s Pontoppidan Visiting Professorship Award in Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine. She has been principal investigator of a series of research and career development awards from the National Institutes of Health, including a multisite randomized controlled trial evaluating an information/support intervention for families of patients with chronic critical illness. With support from NIH and the Center to Advance Palliative Care, she launched The IPAL-ICU Project, of which she is Director, for development and broad dissemination of resources to help improve palliative care for ICU patients and families. She recently founded the Supportive Oncology Committee of the Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers, which she Co-Chairs.  Her work is at the forefront of bringing a patient-centered focus into the intensive care unit. 

Course Director and Planners:

Kathleen J. Haley, MD - Course Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Associate Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care/Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Gerald L. Weinhouse, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Associate Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care/Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Daniela Lamas, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Associate Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care/Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Hasna Hakim, DNP, MPH, CCRH, VAQS
Nursing Director, Department of Nursing, Medical Intensive Care Unit,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Course faculty:

Robert Brown, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; 
Staff Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine/Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

Nomi Carrick-Levy, MD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; 
Associate Physician,
Co-Chair, Partners Healthcare Trauma Informed Care Initiative,
Associate Vice Chair for Ambulatory Clinical Services, Department of Psychiatry,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Peter Czarnecki, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Associate Physician, Division of Renal Medicine/Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Miguel Divo, MD
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Associate Physician, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care/Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jason Frankel, MD
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School;
Associate Physician, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Houman Javedan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Assistant Program Director, Multi-Campus Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Clinical Director for the Division of Aging,
Division of Aging/Department of Medicine,
Associate Physician,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Martha Jurchak, RN PhD
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School;
Executive Director, Ethics Consultation Service,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Susan Moore, MPH, RN, CCM, CHPN
Senior Director, Case Management,
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

Sangeet Narang, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard Medical School; 
Associate Physician, Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative and Pain Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Kristen Schaefer, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
Director, Medical Student and Resident Education,
Senior Physician, Adult Palliative Care Division, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute;
Division of Palliative Medicine/Department of Medicine,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital