Teaching
Scholars Program
is
an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine. After graduating from Yale
College, she completed medical school and residency at Harvard and spent
two years working on the Navajo Reservation. As a clinician-educator,
she attends on the hospitalist service at Moffitt-Long and is Assistant
Director of the Palliative Care Service. She is interested in designing
and evaluating palliative care curricula for residents and students.
Her current curricular projects include: developing and expanding an
experiential and interdisciplinary medical school elective on caring
for dying patients; creating a program in which students and adults
coping with serious illness exchange letters over the course of a year;
and evaluating a web-based video tutorial, which she and colleagues
produced, on code status discussions. She is also collaborating on a
UC-wide initiative to develop, disseminate, and evaluate palliative
care curricula for students and residents.
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