Chief, Geriatrics & Palliative Care
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
Dr. Pan is Chief, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine, and Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Graduate Medical Education (GME) at
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, Flushing, NY, and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Pan is the founding director of NYPQ’s Palliative Care Program (2010). This program has helped thousands of seriously ill patients and families. In 2015, Dr. Pan and her team started a new Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship at NYPQ. Under her leadership, the NYPQ Palliative Care team is fully interdisciplinary, with physicians, nurse practitioners, social worker, pharmacist, chaplains. Dr. Pan promotes medical and interdisciplinary education. She has several palliative care related grants, including a teaching grant “GOComm-PC” (Goals of Care Communication for Primary Care) to train ambulatory care clinicians how to open GOC conversations with patients living with serious illness; a Cornell Meyer Cancer Center grant to assess multidimensional needs of Asian patients living with EGFRm lung cancer. She has championed multiple quality improvement projects, including the routine use of MOLST forms, improving appropriate use of NIPPV at end-of-life, optimizing appropriate use of feeding tubes, promoting early palliative care consultations and hospice screening, and promoting Age Friendly Care for hospitalized elderly patients. Dr. Pan works collaboratively with hospital leadership, interdisciplinary teams, and community agencies to optimize palliative and transitional care for patients with serious illnesses. She has presented in both geriatrics and palliative care national societies, and brings awareness of these topics at the international level. Dr. Pan speaks English, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. She is excited to share her new book, Exit Strategies: Living Lessons from Dying People!
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:30am - 11:45am PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose