Associate professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
J. Brian Cassel, PhD is Palliative Care Research Director and associate professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He received his doctorate from the City University of New York in 1995, in Psychology. In 2012 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Cicely Saunders Institute at King’s College London, UK. His research focuses on economic outcomes of specialist palliative care, and more broadly the value equation for palliative care. He teaches research design, palliative care topics, and population health & evidence-based medicine to medical students, residents and fellows. As a faculty member of VCU’s “Palliative Care Leadership Center” he has helped to train more than 150 palliative care teams from all over the US.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
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Friday, March 6, 2026
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Worsening Racial Disparity for Hospice, but not for Palliative Care: Explanation and Call to Action
Saturday, March 7, 2026
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