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Full Schedule

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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, March 7, 2026
  • Logistics
  • 7:00am - 12:00pm PST
    Lactation Lounge
  • 7:00am - 12:00pm PST
    Quiet Space
  • 7:00am - 12:00pm PST
    Registration
  • Saturday Community Meetings
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    Humanities & Spirituality Meeting
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    Primary Care SIG Meeting
  • 7:00am - 7:45am PST
    Veterans SIG Meeting
  • Saturday Best in Science Plenary
  • 8:00am - 9:30am PST
    Best In Science
  • Deep Dive
  • 10:00am - 12:15pm PST
    Deep Dive into Navigating Suicidality in Serious Illness Care: From Practical Tools to Therapeutic Presence 
  • Saturday Learning Flight 1
  • 10:00am - 10:15am PST
    Rolling It Out: Operationalizing Inpatient Use of Medical Cannabis for Symptom Management in Advanced Cancer

    Presenting Author: Wendy Tong, MD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Author (not presenting): Christopher Richardson, MD – Department of Emergency Medicine and Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Lauren Kelly, MD, MPH, MS – Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital

    Author (not presenting): LaStacia Miles, MSN, RN – Mount Sinai Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Peter S. Paxos, MS, R.Ph. – Mount Sinai Hospital

    Author (not presenting): John Mato, MSN, RN, CHPN – Mount Sinai Hospital

  • 10:00am - 10:20am PST
    “We Are Not Alone”: Virtual Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Caregivers of Advanced Cancer Patients

    Presenting Author: Natalie S. McAndrew, PhD, R.N., CCRN – Mayo Clinic

    Presenting Author: Mashele Huschka, D.N.P., APRN, C.N.P., ACHPN – Mayo Clinic

    Author (not presenting): Sherry S. Chesak, RN, PhD – Mayo Clinic

    Author (not presenting): Erin Taylor, LICSW – Mayo Clinic

    Author (not presenting): Joan M. Griffin, PhD – Mayo Clinic

    Author (not presenting): Cindy Tofthagen, PhD, APRN, AOCNP, FAANP, FAAN – Mayo Clinic

    Author (not presenting): Allison Applebaum, PhD, FAPOS – Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Presenting Author: Deirdre R. Pachman, MD – Mayo Clinic

  • 10:00am - 10:25am PST
    A LiverPal Perspective: Palliative Care Pearls for the Care of Hospitalized Patients with Advanced Liver Disease

    Presenting Author: Nancy Mason, CNP – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Presenting Author: Sara Kenimer, AGPCNP-BC – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Presenting Author: Kirsten G. Engel, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Presenting Author: Michelle Diop, MD, ScM – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Presenting Author: Karen A. O'Brien, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Vicki A. Jackson, MD, MPH – Boston Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): Areej A. El-Jawahri, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

    Presenting Author: Nneka Ufere, MD, MSCE – Massachusetts General Hospital

  • 10:00am - 11:00am PST
    Caring with Complexity: Developing and Implementing a Pilot Substance Use Disorder Workflow in Palliative Care

    Presenting Author: Nicole E. Dussault, MD, MS – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    Author (not presenting): Jessica E. Ma, MD, MHSc – Duke University

    Author (not presenting): Noel Ivey, MD – Duke University School of Medicine

    Author (not presenting): Talia Bernal, MD – Duke University School of Medicine

    Author (not presenting): Dana Clifton, MD – Duke University School of Medicine

    Author (not presenting): Christopher A. Jones, MD, MBA, CPC – Duke University School of Medicine

    Author (not presenting): Wil L. Santivasi, MD – Duke University School of Medicine

  • 10:00am - 11:00am PST
    Cooking in the Kitchen Together: Hospice and palliative care partnership to build a hospital-based GIP program

    Presenting Author: Richard E. Leiter, MD, MA – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Presenting Author: Jacob Ramos, MD – HopeHealth

    Author (not presenting): Lynne O'Mara, MBA, MPAS, PA-C – Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Presenting Author: Kate M. Lally, MD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Presenting Author: Diana Franchitto, MBA, FACHE – HopeHealth

    Presenting Author: Tina Correia, RN, BSN – Hope Health Hospice & Palliative Care

    Author (not presenting): Elizabeth M. Rickerson, MD – Brigham & Women's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

    Presenting Author: Edward W. Martin, MD, MPH, FAAHPM CHMD – Hopehealth

  • 10:00am - 11:00am PST
    Custom Caring for Your Community: Models of Community-Based Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Care

    Presenting Author: Kayla Overstreet, CPNP – Carolina Caring

    Presenting Author: Steven Smith, MD – McMaster Children's Hospital

    Presenting Author: Laura Knaur, MSW, LISW-S, Cert. Death Doula – Nationwide Children's Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Lisa Lam, CPNP-PC – Dell Children's Hospital

    Presenting Author: Laura Cummins, CPNP – Dell Children's Hospital

  • 10:00am - 11:00am PST
    Having A Seat At The Table Isn’t Enough: Inclusive Facilitation Skills for Palliative Care Spaces

    Presenting Author: Lindsay A. Dow, MD MS – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Presenting Author: Kilbourne Boyle, MSPC, RN, CHPN – University of Vermont Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): Jennifer DiBiase, DSW, LCSW-R, APHSW-C – NYU Langone Health

    Presenting Author: Priya Raja, MD MPH – Weill Cornell Medical Center/New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital

    Presenting Author: Jamyl N. Walker, DNP, MSN, AGNP-C, ACHPN – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Presenting Author: Stephen Berns, MD – University of Vermont Health Network and Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont

  • 10:00am - 11:00am PST
    New Drugs and Drug News of 2025

    Presenting Author: Alexandra L. McPherson, PharmD, MPH – MWHC

    Author (not presenting): Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD PhD FAAHPM – University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

  • 10:00am - 11:00am PST
    Thrive and Revive: Psychological Strategies for Sustaining Wellbeing in Hospice and Palliative Care

    Presenting Author: Shari A. Langer, PsyD – Inova Peterson Life with Cancer/Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital

    Presenting Author: Linda Radbill, PhD – Children's Healthcare of Atlanta/Emory University

    Presenting Author: Michelle A. Fortier, PhD – University of California Irvine

    Presenting Author: Heather Bemis, PhD – Children's Hospital Los Angeles

    Presenting Author: Erin Kelling, PsyD – University of Colorado/Children's Hospital Colorado

  • 10:15am - 10:30am PST
    Managing Left Ventricular Assist Devices in Hospice: A Case-Based Review of Barriers and Solutions

    Presenting Author: Sawyer Kieffer, MD – UCSD/Scripps Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship

    Author (not presenting): Michelle A. Quan, MD – UCSD/Scripps Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship

    Author (not presenting): Holly Yang, MSHPED MD HMDC MACP FAAHPM – Scripps Health

  • 10:20am - 10:40am PST
    6-Month Cancer Family Caregiver Results from the ENABLE Cornerstone Randomized Clinical Trial

    Presenting Author: J. Nicholas N. Odom, PhD, RN – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Author (not presenting): Andres Azuero, PhD, MBA – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Presenting Author: Richard Taylor, PhD, DNP, CRNP – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Author (not presenting): Jennifer Y. Pierce, MD, MPH – University of South Alabama

    Author (not presenting): Gabrielle Rocque, MD, MSPH – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Author (not presenting): Rachel D. Wells, PhD, RN, CNL, CHPN, FPCN – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Author (not presenting): Shena Gazaway, PhD, RN – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Author (not presenting): Marie A. Bakitas, DNSc, RN – University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 10:30am - 10:45am PST
    Reframing the Fight: Veteran Identity and Combat Metaphors in End-of-Life Cancer Care

    Presenting Author: Samantha Kumarasena, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): Lara M. Skarf, MD – VA Boston HCS

    Author (not presenting): Jeff Kowaleski, MD – VA Boston HCS

  • 10:30am - 10:55am PST
    A Learning Exchange: Community-Engaged Education about Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning

    Presenting Author: Edward Penate, DMin, BCC – Northwestern Memorial Hospital

    Presenting Author: Bridget Sumser, LCSW – University of California San Francisco

    Presenting Author: Sarah Nouri, MD, MPH – UCSF

    Presenting Author: Loren Pogir, MPA – San Francisco Palliative Care Workgroup

    Presenting Author: Katelyn Dow Stepanyan, MD – UCLA

    Presenting Author: Grant M. Smith, MD – Stanford School of Medicine

  • 10:40am - 11:00am PST
    Palliative Care Intervention to Improve End-of-Life Care Communication in AML and MDS

    Presenting Author: Alison R. Kavanaugh, MSN, ACNP-BC, ACHPN – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Presenting Author: Heather A. Patel, MSN, APRN, ACHPN – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Joseph A. Greer, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Vicki A. Jackson, MD, MPH – Boston Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): Thomas W. LeBlanc, MD, MA, MHS – Duke University School of Medicine and the Duke Cancer Institute

    Author (not presenting): Jennifer Temel, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Areej A. El-Jawahri, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

  • 10:45am - 11:00am PST
    Crisis Averted: Early Palliative Involvement in Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

    Presenting Author: Kylie Shockley, MD – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): James J. Brehany, IV, MD – Ohio state university wexner medical center

    Author (not presenting): Maximillian H. Stevenson, PharmD, MA, BCPS – The Ohio State University

    Author (not presenting): Roberta C. G. Azbell, MD

  • Saturday Learning Flight 2
  • 11:15am - 11:30am PST
    US-UK Differences in Clinical Norms Surrounding Life-Sustaining Treatments for Persons Living with Dementia

    Presenting Author: Jason N. Batten, MD, MA – Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

    Author (not presenting): Julia K. Axelrod, BA – Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

    Author (not presenting): Sofia Weiss Goitiandia, BA, MSc, MA – University of College, London

    Author (not presenting): Teva D. Brender, MD – Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

    Author (not presenting): Katherine Walker, MD, MSc – Harvard Medical School

    Author (not presenting): Thomas Curtis, MBChB, MSc – St. Christopher's Hospice

    Author (not presenting): Elizabeth W. Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH – Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

  • 11:15am - 11:35am PST
    AI-Enabled Analysis of Functional Status Documentation Patterns and Decline Trajectories in Lung Cancer

    Presenting Author: Alaa Albashayreh, PhD, MSHI, RN – University of Iowa College of Nursing

    Author (not presenting): Yuya Hagiwara, MD – University of Iowa College of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

    Author (not presenting): William Zeitler, MD, MPH – University of Iowa College of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

    Author (not presenting): Stephanie Gilbertson-White, PhD, RN, FAAN – University of Iowa College of Nursing

  • 11:15am - 11:40am PST
    Caring for Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled Patients in the ICU

    Presenting Author: Colleen Vega, DNP, CNS, ACHPN – Stanford Health Care

    Presenting Author: Felicia Hui, MD – Stanford School of Medicine

    Presenting Author: Kelsey Hansen, MSW – Stanford Health Care

  • 11:15am - 11:40am PST
    Defining Outpatient Curricular Content for Hospice and Palliative Medicine Trainees: A National Survey

    Presenting Author: Harry J. Han, MD – Section of Palliative Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Presenting Author: Angelika Golebiowska, MD – Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

    Presenting Author: Emily N. Hansen, DO – Division of Palliative Medicine, University of Kansas Health System

    Author (not presenting): Michelle Park, MD – Wellstar Health System

    Author (not presenting): Jonathan C. Yeh, MD – Section of Palliative Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Presenting Author: Victoria I. Sweetnam, MD – Division of Palliative Medicine, , Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine,

    Author (not presenting): Christian T. Sinclair, MD – Division of Palliative Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center,

    Author (not presenting): Mary K. Buss, MD, MPH – UConn Health

  • 11:15am - 11:40am PST
    Educating Black and African American Populations About Serious Illness Care Options - It's An Act of Love

    Presenting Author: Dwan Kelsey, MSN, RN, ANP-C – Transitions LifeCare

    Author (not presenting): Betsy Barton, MPH, CT – Transitions LifeCare

    Author (not presenting): Jacqueline Sinicrope, MS, CT – Transitions LifeCare

  • 11:15am - 11:40am PST
    If You've Seen One Palliative Care Program: The Why and How of Developing Standards

    Presenting Author: Allison Silvers, MBA – Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

    Presenting Author: Ira R. Byock, MD, FAAHPM – Clinical Transformation Specialists PLLC

    Presenting Author: Stacie Sinclair, MPP – Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

  • 11:15am - 11:40am PST
    Unseen, Unrelenting, and Uncertain: Medically Complex Children’s Caregiver-identified Palliative Care Targets

    Presenting Author: Amy S. Porter, MD, PhD – Mass General Brigham for Children, Harvard Medical School

    Presenting Author: Mary Barber Bussiere, MSW, LICSW – Mass General Brigham for Children

    Presenting Author: Lauren Xenakis, MSN, CPNP-PC/AC – Pediatric Advanced Care Team, Boston Children's Hospital

    Presenting Author: Justin A. Yu, MD, MS – University of Pittsburgh

    Presenting Author: Jennifer M. Snaman, MD, MS – Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

  • 11:15am - 11:40am PST
    Worsening Racial Disparity for Hospice, but not for Palliative Care: Explanation and Call to Action

    Presenting Author: J Brian Cassel, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University

    Presenting Author: Brittany M. Chambers, MPH, MCHES – Center to Advance Palliative Care

    Author (not presenting): Kathleen M. Kerr, BA – Transforming Care Partners

    Author (not presenting): Amy Scheu, MSH, CHPCA – Advocate Health

    Author (not presenting): Jessica Allen, DO – Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

    Author (not presenting): Rachel George, PhD – Advocate Health

    Author (not presenting): Bassam Dahman, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University School of Public Health

  • 11:30am - 11:45am PST
    Bridging Health Literacy Gaps: Developing a Standardized Protocol for Defining Common Palliative Care Terms

    Presenting Author: Ruizhi Zhang, BA – University of Minnesota Medical School

    Author (not presenting): Eriko Onishi, MD, MCR, PhD – Oregon Health and Science University

    Author (not presenting): Allan Gao, MD – NYP Weil Cornell Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): Kimberlee S. Fong, DO – Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Cleveland Clinic

    Author (not presenting): Matthew Kwong, MD HMDC – Asian Network Pacific Home Care and Hospice

    Author (not presenting): Joanna Chen, MD, MPH – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Author (not presenting): Cynthia X. Pan, MD – NewYork-Presbyterian Queens

    Author (not presenting): Arshia Madni, MD FAAP FAAHPM – University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center/ LeBonheur Children's

  • 11:35am - 11:55am PST
    Identifying Depression in Palliative Care Patients' Messages Using Large Language Models

    Presenting Author: Selen Bozkurt, PhD – Emory University

    Author (not presenting): Sheida Habibi, Ms – Emory University

    Author (not presenting): Carina Oltmann, LCSW, MSSW – University of Miami

    Author (not presenting): Ravi Pathak, MD – Emory University

    Author (not presenting): Dio Kavalieratos, PhD, FAAHPM – Emory University

  • 11:45am - 12:00pm PST
    Analysis of Ambient AI Transcription in Outpatient Palliative Care

    Presenting Author: Andrew C. Torres, DO – Kaiser Permanente - Fontana Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): Jason Ngo, MD – Kaiser Permanente - Fontana Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): Chirag H. Gandhi, DO – Kaiser Permanente - Fontana Medical Center

  • 11:45am - 12:10pm PST
    A Decade of Interactive Educational Exchange: Impacting Interprofessional Palliative Care Education

    Presenting Author: Elise C. Carey, MD, FAAHPM, FACP – Mayo Clinic

    Presenting Author: Laura J. Morrison, MD, FAAHPM, FACP – Yale Palliative Care Program

    Presenting Author: Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, MA, ACSW, LCSW, OSW-CE, FNAP, FAOSW – Collaborative Caring

    Author (not presenting): Pamela N. Fordham, PhD, FNP – University of Alabama Birmingham

    Author (not presenting): Julie Bruno, MSW – American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

  • 11:45am - 12:10pm PST
    Difficult Conversations? Addressing sexuality and intimate relationships in AYAs with serious illness

    Presenting Author: Thomas McNalley, MD, MA, FAAHPM – UC San Francisco, By the Bay Health, George Mark Children's House

    Presenting Author: Colleen Cullinan, PhD – University of California San Francisco

  • 11:45am - 12:10pm PST
    Expanding Palliative Care Capacity Through an Intentional Transdisciplinary Model

    Presenting Author: Robert E. Leavitt, EMBA, MDiv, MAT, BCC – Providence Medical Group

    Presenting Author: Adrienne L. Goldberg, PhD, LICSW – Washington Rural Palliative Care Initiative Contractor

    Presenting Author: Gregg VandeKieft, MD, MA – Providence Swedish

  • 11:45am - 12:10pm PST
    Got-To-Be M2B: A New Standard of Care in Improving Opioid Access for Minority Patients with Cancer

    Presenting Author: Katherine Mark, MD – Mt Sinai School of Medicine

    Presenting Author: Joanna Chen, MD, MPH – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Presenting Author: Dylan K S Suyama, MD – New York Presbyterian

    Presenting Author: Jose Luis Alcaraz Alvarez, MD – Hackensack Meridian

    Author (not presenting): Janet An, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN – Mount Sinai West

    Author (not presenting): Sara Kroll, AGACNP-BC – Mount Sinai West

    Author (not presenting): Stephanie Lehrman, LCSW, APHSW-C – Mount Sinai West

    Author (not presenting): Margaret Colbert, LMSW – Mount Sinai Health System

  • 11:45am - 12:10pm PST
    Trauma-Informed Presence: A Neurobiological and Relational Reframe for Palliative Care

    Presenting Author: Chris Onderdonk, MSW, LCSW, AHPSW-C – UC San Diego Health Doris A. Howell Palliative Teams

  • 11:45am - 12:10pm PST
    Young Voices for Hospice: A Youth Advisory Board to Promote Hospice Awareness and Education

    Presenting Author: Angel E. Sanchez Artiles, MD, HMDC – Catholic Hospice/ HCA FL Aventura Hospital

    Presenting Author: Tracy Romanello, DO FACOFP FAAHPM HMDC – Catholic Hospice and Palliative Care Services

    Author (not presenting): Anabel Alonso, MD – HCA Fl Aventura Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Sanaz Kashan, MD – Catholic Hospice / HCA Fl Aventura Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Savier Aleman Rama, MD – HCA Fl Aventura Hospital

  • 11:55am - 12:15pm PST
    Comparing prognostic performance and reasoning between physicians and large language models

    Presenting Author: Megan Gjertsen, MD – Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Author (not presenting): WonJin Yoon, PhD – Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Med.

    Author (not presenting): Majid Afshar, MD, MS – Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Author (not presenting): Emma Croxford – Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Author (not presenting): John R. Caskey, PhD – Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Author (not presenting): Yanjun Gao, PhD – Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz

    Author (not presenting): Timothy A. Miller, PhD – Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital

    Author (not presenting): Jacqueline M. Kruser, MD – Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • 12:00pm - 12:15pm PST
    Power of Legacy: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Legacy-Building Program

    Presenting Author: Ellyn Gunya – University of Kansas Health System

    Presenting Author: Loren Steinfeldt, RN, MSPC – The University of Kansas Health System

    Presenting Author: Kate Shoemaker, LMSW, APHSW-C – University of Kansas Health System

    Presenting Author: Stacey Aumock, LSCSW, LCSW – The University of Kansas Health System

    Author (not presenting): Joanna Veazey Brooks, PhD, MBE – Divisions of Population Health and Palliative Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center

    Author (not presenting): Christian T. Sinclair, MD – Division of Palliative Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center,