Geriatric Medicine & Palliative Care
Leadership
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 401
Philadelphia, PA 19107
- Assistant Director of Research
- Assistant Director, Primary Care Research Fellowship
Mission
To improve the lives of older persons and those with serious illness by partnering with all patients, all families, and all communities.
Vision
Model excellence in collaboration, inclusion and person-centered healthcare.
Geriatric Medicine & Palliative Care
- Susan Parks, MD (Geriatrics lead)
- John Liantonio, MD (Palliative Care lead)
- Lauren Hersh, MD
- Margaret Kreher, MD
- Lauren Latourette, CRNP
- Brooke Salzman, MD
- Kristine Swartz, MD
- Brooke Worster, MD
Geriatric Medicine & Palliative Care Research themes include:
Education
Geriatric Medicine
- Geriatric Academic Career Award, the Complex Care Curriculum (The 3Cs): Navigating Social Determinants of Health in Geriatric Practice – Dr. Lauren Hersh
- Macy Foundation, Learning to Practice Collaboratively for the Benefit of Patients with Complex Care Needs – Brooke Salzman MD, Tracey Earland OTD
- Integration of Occupational Therapy into Primary Geriatric Care
- Alzheimer’s Virtual Interprofessional Training Program
- Palliative Care
IPEX Grant
Utilizing telehealth to support interprofessional education
- Optimizing inpatient palliative care consultation
- Identifying high risk patients for complicated grief
- Understanding Primary Palliative Care in Graduate Medical Education
Geriatric Clinical Care
- Geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer
- Cancer Screening with older adults
- LGBTQ-Competent care for older adults
- Complex Care at home
Medical Marijuana
Pallative Care Clinical Care
- Optimizing inpatient palliative care consultation
- Identifying high risk patients for complicated grief
- Understanding Primary Palliative Care in Graduate Medical Education
Recent Projects
- Medical marijuana, cannabis, and cannabinoids for patients with significant symptom burden in serious medical conditions (Lambert Center for the Study of Medical Cannabis and Hemp);
- A Study of Compassionate Caregiving at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Funder: The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare)
- Identifying Patients at High Risk for Hospitalization
- Improving Medication Adherence in Older African-Americans with Diabetes (Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) Project: An Intervention to Increase Completion Rates
- Physician Perspectives on the Use of Technology to Facilitate Communication
- Race as a Predictor of Palliative Care Referral Time, Hospice Utilization, and Hospital Length of Stay: A Retrospective Non-Comparative Analysis
- Retrospective Chart Analysis for Evaluation and Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
- Survey of Jefferson Attending Physicians Palliative Care Practices and Attitudes
Selected Publications
Advance care planning: Making it easier for patients (and you)
Strategies to help reduce hospital readmissions
Family factors in end-of-life decision-making: Family conflict and proxy relationship
End of Life Decision-Making for Cancer Patients
Multidisciplinary family meetings in the ICU facilitate end-of-life decision making
The elderly, their families, and their caregivers
Intracerebral hemorrhage for the palliative care provider: What you need to know
Family discord and proxy decision makers' end-of-life treatment decisions
The state of advance care planning: One decade after SUPPORT
Medication prescribing for older adults
Evaluation of an educational program for long-term care nursing assistants