Areej El-Jawahri, MD - Course Director
Director of BMT Survivorship Program,
Associate Director of the Cancer Outcomes Research and Education Program (CORE),
Massachusetts General Hospital;
Director of Digital Health,
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center;
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Dr. El-Jawahri graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital. She subsequently completed her hematology-oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center Fellowship Program. Dr. El-Jawahri is an oncologist specializing in the care of patients with hematologic malignancies and those undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and adoptive cellular therapy. Her goal is to improve the lived experience of patients with hematologic malignancies and their families. Her research interests include investigating patient-reported outcomes, developing interventions to enhance patient-centered decision-making, and designing supportive, palliative, and digital health interventions to improve the care of patients with hematologic malignancies and their families. She serves as the Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Survivorship Program, the Associate Director of the Cancer Outcomes Research and Education Program (CORE), and the Director of Digital Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Alison Kavanaugh, MSN, ACNP-BC, ACHPN
Inpatient Nurse Practitioner Lead,
Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

Ms. Kavanaugh is the Nurse Practitioner Lead for the Massachusetts General Hospital inpatient palliative care consult service. She is a graduate of Colgate University and earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Ali completed the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship program, and is board certified in both Acute Care and Hospice & Palliative Care. She has a particular interest in the care of patients with cancer and their families and is part of a research team investigating the integration of palliative care services for patients with hematologic malignancies and those undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Jason A. Webb, MD, DFAPA, FAAHPM
Section Chief, OHSU Palliative Care, Quality Medical Director,
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Palliative Care;
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry,
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University

In 2020, Dr. Webb joined Oregon Health and Science University as the Section Chief of Palliative Care, Knight Cancer Institute. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, and Dr. Webb is directing the clinical, education, and research programs for the Section of Palliative Care in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology and across OHSU Health. Additionally, he serves as the Quality Medical Director for Palliative Care for OHSU Health.

Dr. Webb focuses his practice on the mental health and palliative care needs of patients with chronic serious illness. Dr. Webb is an active clinical member of OHSU Palliative Care, where he attends on the inpatient Palliative Care Consultation Service. He provides outpatient palliative care for patients in the Knight Cancer Institute concurrently with their oncologists, treating their pain and managing complex symptoms, with special emphasis on the neuropsychiatric aspects of care for cancer patients.

Dr. Webb received his medical degree from the University of Nevada, School of Medicine, and completed a combined Internal Medicine and Psychiatry residency training at Duke University. He served as the Chief Resident for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and the Medicine-Psychiatry Chief Resident at Duke University Hospital. Dr. Webb also served for an additional year as the Internal Medicine Chief Resident at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in a leadership role for the Duke Internal Medicine Residency training program. Dr. Webb then completed fellowship training at Duke University in Hospice and Palliative Medicine prior to joining the faculty of Duke Palliative Care in 2014. He served as the Director of Education for the Duke Center for Palliative Care, and the Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Duke from 2014 until 2020 where he was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry.

Dr. Webb’s conducts collaborative clinical research with colleagues at Duke University and Massachusetts General Hospital. This research team is currently conducting multiple randomized trials examining the role of early palliative care interventions for patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing curative intent treatments including patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation. His team- based research has been published in JAMA Oncology, Cancer, and the Journal of Palliative Medicine.

Nationally, Dr. Webb has served on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines committee for the Cancer-Related Fatigue panel and was a member of the NCI Palliative and Supportive Care Editorial Board for the Physicians Data Query. He is an active member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) currently serving on the Quality Committee and has previously served as the Chair of the Early Career Professional’s Special Interest Group (SIG), the Psychosocial and Mental Health SIG, Co-Chair of the Outpatient Palliative Care SIG, and served as an Associate Editor for the Symptom Assessment and Management section for PC-FACS. Dr. Webb has been honored by the AAHPM as an Inspirational Leader in Hospice and Palliative Care, was named an AAHPM Hearst Leadership Scholar in 2018, and achieved Fellow status in the Academy in 2019. In 2020 he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.