JAN 13 | Dio Kavalieratos, PhD, FAAHMP
Palliative care in light of treatment through breakthroughs: the case of cystic fibrosis

MAR 10 | Kimberly Kopecky, MD, MSCI, Avery Bechthold, PhD, BSN, RN, Korijna Valenti, PhD, IPCC, MS, MPW 
AAHPM Highlights

MAR 13 | Justin Yu, MD, MS
Family Caregivers of Children with Medical Complexity: Essential Partners for the Future of Pediatrics

APR 14 | Richard Taylor, PhD, DNP, CRNP, APN-BC
Life-Space Mobility in Older Adult Colorectal Cancer Survivors: A Mixed Method Cohort Study

JUN 9 | Joseph Bakeer, MD Kaitlyn Barr, MD Matthew Jennings, MD
HPM Palliative Care Fellows Presentation

SEPT 8 | Meghan Hebdon, PhD, DNP, MSN-FNP
The Intersection of Family Caregiving, Work, and Well-Being for Family Caregivers in Early and Middle Adulthood

JAN 10 | Anand Iyer, MD, MSPH
Project EPIC: Empowering People to Independence in COPD

JAN 22 | Elizabeth Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH
Institutional Structures and its Impact on Cultures of Intensities of End-of-Life-Care

FEB 14 | Angela Feraco, MD, MMSc
We don't stop chemo for birthdays: investigating communication, parental distress, and quality of life among children receiving cancer treatment

FEB 26 | Kate Nelson, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Navigating Uncertainty in Decision Making for Children with Medical Complexity

APR 10 | Tessie October, MD
NIH Funding Landscape

JUN 19 | Dyan Alvarez, MD, Justine McGiboney, MD, John Rainwater, MD, Gabe Daniels, MD
HPM Palliative Care Fellows Presentation

SEPT 9 | Jill Deaver, MA, MS Carolyn Kezar, MD, Jonan Phillip Donaldson, PhD
Adventures in AI Supported Systematic Review

OCT 21 | Rachel D. Wells, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL
Building the Bridge: Current Training and Support Strategies for Palliative Care Navigators in Serious Illness

NOV 11 | Rhiannon Reed, DrPH, MPH
Leaving a Little Ray of Hope: Perspectives from Providers, Patients, and Caregivers on Palliative Care and Future Healthcare Planning for Patients Ineligible for Kidney Transplantation

DEC 9 | Shena Gazaway, PhD, RN
Thinking about translation in your early-developmental work

JAN 23 | Richard Taylor, PhD, DNP, CRNP
Fostering the Relationship Between Research and Clinician

FEB 6 | Julie Kanter
ACCESS to care in Sickle Cell Disease

FEB 27 | Lisa Chamberlain, MD Noelle Hanako Ebel, MD Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD
Panel Discussion: Having a Real World Impact: Bridging Research to Policy 

MAR 6 | Shena Gazaway, Jun Yeong Byun
AAHPM Sneak Peek

APR 3 | Kira Bona, MD, MPH
Shifting the Paradigm: Poverty as a Novel Target in Pediatric Oncology

APR 24 | Patricia A. Patrician, PhD, RN, FAAN
Learning to Improve

MAY 1 | Sigrid Ladores, PhD, RN, PNP, CNE FAAN, Brittany Woods, BSN, RN, CNOR, PhD(c)
The Lived Experience of African American Adults with Cystic Fibrosis: Implications for Clinical Care and Future Research

SEPT 13 | Jennifer Snaman, MD
Spotlighting the Unseen: Early Bereavement Outcomes of Parents of Children that Died from Cancer

OCT 11 | Joan Carpenter, PhD, CRNP, ACHPN, FPCN
Primary Palliative Care in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Outcomes of a Pilot Pragmatic Trial

NOV 8 | Marla Hertz, PhD
Crafting an effective data management plan for NIH grants

DEC 13 | Rachel Wells, PhD, MSN, RN, CNL
From Likes to Insights: Maximizing the Impact of Social Media and AI in Palliative Care Research and Higher Education

JAN 24 | Bertha Hidalgo, PhD, MPH
Academic Writing – Reliance in the Academy 

FEB 28 | Joel Dobbs, PhD
Including Team Science in Grants

MAR 7 | Timmy Lee, MD
The Hemodialysis Vascular Access Lifeline for End Stage Kidney Disease Patients: The Patient, Life plan, and Personalized Therapies

MAR 22 |  Michael Wiederman, PhD
Optimal Teams: Effective Teams and Teamwork

APR 25 |  Caitlin Clevenger, MD
Being in Community: Transgender Individuals' Recommendations for Researching their Palliative Care Needs

MAY 2 | Rhiannon Reed, DrPH, MPH
Assessing Provider, Patient, and Caregiver Perspectives for Palliative Care and Advanced Care Planning in Kidney Transplantation: The ACCEPT Study

JUN 5 | Frank Puga, PhD
The Mental Health Experiences of Sexual Gender Minority Cancer Survivors and Their Intimate Partners

JUN 5 | Michael Barnett, MD, MS
Determining Values and Care Preferences of Older Gay and Bisexual Men with Serious Illness in the South

JUN 27 | Renie Moss, M.Ed.
Patient Advocacy

SEPT 26 | Marie A. Bakitas, DNSc, NP-C, FAAN, Grant R. Williams, MD, MSPH, Shena Gazaway, PhD, MSN, RN
Panel Discussion: Critical Research Resources

OCT 3 | Reed Bratches, PhD, MPH, MALS
Communicating Information from Clinic Visits to Family Caregivers

OCT 24 | Jennifer Croker, PhD
Accelerating Discovery to Improve Health: Introduction to the (CCTS) Center for Clinical and Translational Science

NOV 7 | Edwin Aroke, PhD, CRNA, FAANA, FAAN
Understanding the Interplay Between Pain Disparities and Epigenomics

NOV 28 | Katherine A. Meese, PhD
Job Crafting and Empowering Leadership

DEC 2 | Prasanna Ananth, MD, MPH
Patient-Centered  End-of-Life Quality Measurement for Children with Cancer

JAN 4 | CANCELLED 

FEB 1, 21 | Rachel Wells, PhD, RN
Homegrown: Developing a Program of Research Examining Critical Components of Early Palliative Care for Advanced Heart Failure

MAR 1, 21 | Sylvia Huang, PhD, MA, MEd
System-wide Depression Screening Implementation: Practice Transformation to Improve Access and Quality of Psychosocial Cancer Care

APRIL 5 |  Emily Johnston, MD, MS
Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer

MAY 3  |  Sara Lappan, PhD, LMFT
Culturally-Based Values and Preferences for Clinician Care and Communication of Lesbian and Bisexual Women with Serious Illness and their Partners

JUNE 7  | Caitlyin Clevenger, PhD and .Rhianon Reed, DrPH
Culturally Based Values and Preferences for Clinician Care and Communication Transgender and Gender Diverse People with Serious Illness and their Partners & Assessing Provider, Patient, and Caregiver Preferences for Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Kidney Transplantation

SEP 27  | Michael Wiederman, PhD
Practices to Build Resilience

OCT 25  | Molly Wasko, PhD, MBA
Implementation Science

NOV 22 | Patricia Drentea, PhD
Work and Life Balance

JAN 6 | Tom Buford, MD
Optimizing Exercise to Prevent Age-Related Functional Decline

FEB 3 | Cindy Cain, PhD
Supporting or Undermining Personhood? How Staff Practices Support and Undermine Personhood for People with Dementia

FEB 24 | James Dionne-Odom, PhD
Writing Compelling Science: Storytelling Basics and Structure

MAR 2 | Deb Ejem, PhD
Optimizing Exercise to Prevent Age-Related Functional Decline

MAR 23 | Tom Buford, PhD
The Basics of Pilot Clinical Trials

APR 6 | Lyle Walton, MD and Emily Johnston, MD
PREP Awardees Presenting on their Projects

APR 27 | Rachel Wells, Tisha Felder, Erin Currie, Kristan Allen Watts
How to be Successful, Insights from Young Investigators and Junior Faculty

MAY 4 | Karina Halilova, MD and Gabrielle Rocque, MD
PREP Awardees Presenting on their Projects

JUN 1 | Sara Lappan, PhD and Rachel Wells, PhD
PREP Awardees Presenting on their Projects

SEP 14 | Grant Williams, MD
Assessing the Older Adult in Oncology: Predicting Treatment Tolerability

OCT 5 | Nicholas Hoppmann, MD
The Integration of Palliative Care for Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease

NOV 2 | Maria Pisu, MD
Let's talk about costs: research to address the financial hardship of cancer care

DEC 7 | James Dionne-Odom, PhD
Progress and Experiences with the Project CASCADE Pilot Factorial Trial using MOST

JAN 7 | Emily Johnston, MD
End-of-Life Care for Children, Adolescents and Adults with Cancer: How Can We Do Better?

FEB 4 | Heather Herrington, MD and Alethia Sellers, MD
NIH Center of Excellence in Pain Education (COEPE)

MAR 4 | AAHPM/HPNA Practice Talks

• Macy Stockdill, Provider Perspectives on Palliative Care in End-Stage Liver Disease: A Qualitative Study
• Anand Iyer, Palliative Care Needs and Perspectives on Early Palliative Care from Individuals with COPD and their Family Caregivers: A Mixed Methods Study
• Deb Ejem, Exploring the Role of Religion and Spirituality in Provider-Patient Communication among African-Americans with Advanced Heart Failure and their Family Caregivers
• Marie Bakitas, Integrating the ENABLE Early Palliative Care Approach in Community Cancer Centers: Results of an Implementation Trial

APR 1 NB1052  | Alayne Markland, DO
Research Opps for P&SC in VA & Birmingham GRECC

MAY 6 NB | Ricky Shinall, M.D. (Vanderbilt University) 
Specialist PC for Surgical Pts: Reflections from a Young Investigator

JUNE 3 NB1071 | Nataliya Ivankova, PhD, MPH
Approaching a Problem from a Mixed Methods Research Perspective

JUL/AUG          SUMMER BREAK                                    ————

SEPT 9 SON | Larry Hearld PhD 
Dissemination & Implementation Science: A Primer and Possibilities for Palliative Care

OCT 7 SON | Rodney Tucker M.D.
Palliative Care & Hospice Education & Training Act (PCHETA) Update

NOV 4 SON | Jessica Williams PhD
Perceived Discrimination in Health Care & Hypertension Management among African Americans in the Southern U.S.

DEC 2 | Ganisher K. Davlyatov, PhD
Telerehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis

JAN 8 | Anand Iyer, MD
Project EPIC: Early Palliative & Supportive Care in COPD

FEB 5 | Stephen Carter, MD
Simulated Altitude as an Adjunct to Optimize Aerobic Exercise in Obese Breast Cancer Survivors with Limited Ambulatory Function: Pilot Randomized Trial

MAR 5 | Marie Bakitas, DNSc, APRN, NP-C, AOCN, ACHPN, FAAN and Sandhya Mudumbi, MD
Palliative Care Interventions in End-Stage Liver Disease: A Rapid Review of Literature

MAR 5 | Sylvia Chao-Hui Huang, PhD and Gabrielle Rocque, MD
Association between Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms and Health Care Utilization in Geriatric Patients with Cancer: Findings from the Patient Care Connect Program

MAR 5 | Yasemin Turkman, PhD and Gabrielle Rocque, MD
Evaluating Disparities in Hospice Utilization for Cancer Patients Living in the Deep South

APR 2 | Eric Wallace, MD
UAB Telehealth Efforts Update

MAY 7 | Deborah Ejem, PhD
Preliminary Findings from the ENABLE: CHF Diversity Administrative Supplement

MAR 6 | Nick Dionne-Odom, PhD, RN, ACHPN and Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Nursing
A 4-survey of family caregivers of poor-prognosis cancer patients: directions for future analyses

MAY 1 | Rachel D. Wells, MSN, RN, CNL
What's in the Black Box?: Describing the focus of early outpatient Palliative Care Consultation Evaluations and Treatment Recommendations for Individuals with Advanced Heart Failure.

SEPT 11 | Sylvia Huang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics & Palliative Care
Mental Health Diagnoses and Quality Proceses of Care at the End of Life: Findings from the BEACON Trial

OCT 2 | Anand Iyer, MD, UAB Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine and Postdoctoral Fellow, Health Services, Outcomes, and Effectiveness Research Training Program
Project EPIC: Early Palliative and Supportive Care in COPD

NOV 6 | Noha Sharafeldin, DrPH, Postdoctoral Fellow Hematology/Oncology
Intervention strategies to improve cognitive functioning in hematologic cancer survivors after hematopoetic transplantation

DEC 4 | Rita Jablonski-Jaudon PhD, Associate Professor of Nursing
Clinician and Consumer Perspectives Regarding Advance Care Planning (ACP) Best-Practice Conversation at Different Stages of Dementia

FEB 1 | Alexander Lo, MD
Determining the Association between Unmet Palliative Care Needs and Healthcare Utilization among Older Adults with Heart Failure

MAR 7 | Sylvie Mrug, PhD
Examining the Role of Spiritual Coping in Health and Well-Being of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis

APR 4 | Jessie Merlin, MD
Intervention for Chronic Pain in Individuals with HIV

MAY 2 | Stephen Carter, PhD
Simulated-Altitude as an Adjunct to Optimize Aerobic Exercise in Obese Breast Cancer Survivors with Limited Ambulatory Function: Pilot Randomized Trial”

SEP 12 | Anand Iyer, MD
Life-Space Mobility as a Measure of Social Limitation in COPD

OCT 3 | Marie Bakitas, DNSc
Describing and evaluating current practices of specialist and generalist palliative care support for patients with a Mechanical Circulatory Support Device (MCSD)

DEC 5 | Zina Trost, PhD
Fear, Injustice, and Virtual Reality: A Research Overview

FEB 9 | Elizabeth Kvale, MD, and Jessie Merlin, MD, MBA
Chronic Pain in Ambulatory Palliative Care

MAR 10 | Judy Paice, PhD, RN, FAAN
The War on Cancer Pain: New Battles

APR 13 | Anna Arthur, PhD, MPH, RD
Improving Dietary Patterns in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors to Optimize Disease Outcomes and Supportive Care: A Pilot Intervention Study

MAY 11 | Nick Dionne-Odom, PhD
Progress on 4-State Survey of Advanced Cancer Family Caregivers

SEPT 21 | Matt Davis, M.D
End of Life Care In Neurosurgical Patients: Implications For Policy And Research Opportunities

OCT 12 | Sylvia Huang, Psychology Post Doc Fellow
Promoting Advance Care Planning Through Community Based Participatory Research: Challenges and Opportunities In The Deep South

NOV 16 | Jessie Merlin, M.D, MBA
Development of a Behavioral Intervention for Chronic Pain in Individuals with HIV

DEC 7 | Erin Currie, PhD, RN
Parent Experiences Surrounding Infant Deaths: Taking the Next Steps

JAN 27 | Jessica Merlin, MD, Assistant Professor with joint appointments in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
Development of a Behavioral Intervention for Chronic Pain in Individuals with HIV - feedback on a K23 proposal

APR 14 | Brainstorming Session with the Center for Palliative and Supportive Care Center Scholars

MAY 23 | Marie Bakitas, DNSc, NP-C, FAAN FAAN, the Marie L. O'Koren Endowed Chair and Professor at the UAB School of Nursing
Immediate vs. Delayed Initiation of Concurrent Palliative Oncology Care: ENABLE III Randomized Controlled Trial Patient Outcomes

MAY 23 | Nick Dionne-Odom, PhD
Benefits of Immediate vs. Delayed Palliative Care to Informal Family Caregivers of Persons with Advanced Cancer: Outcomes from the ENABLE III Randomized Controlled Trial

JUNE 19 | DeNay Porter Kirkpatrick, DNP, APN-BC, CRNP, Nurse Practitioner, in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine
COPD/Asthma IPU & CMS Bundle Payment Pilot

SEPT 10 | Elizabeth Kvale, MD, Associate Professor & Medical Director UAB Palliative & Supportive Care Outpatient Services
Survivorship Care Transition Intervention

OCT 10 | Peter S. Hendricks, PhD, Associate Professor Public Health in the Department of Health Behavior
5HT2A Agonists (Classic Psychedelics) in the Treatment of End-of-Life Distress

JAN 14 | Kerri Bevis MD, Assistant Professor Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Work in Progress (in palliative care in oncology)

MAR 28 | Jessica S. Merlin, MD, MBA, PCOR K12 Scholar and Assistant Professor Division of Infectious Diseases
HIV and Chronic Pain Research

APR 15 | David H. James RN, DNP, CCRN, CCNS, UAB Center for Nursing Excellence
Bioethical Considerations for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) in the critically ill

MAY 14 | Sridivya Parvataneni, MD, Research Assistant, UAB Comprehensive Center for Healthy Aging
Discharge Hospice Referral and 30-Day All-Cause Readmission in Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure

JUNE 10 | René Jooste, M Pharm, CCRP, Clinical Trial Billing Officer, UAB Office of Sponsored Programs
Comparing the Quality of end-of-life Cancer Care in the Medicare Population at Academic Medical Centers and Non-academic Medical Centers prior to and after the Enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003

SEPT 30 | J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, MA, MSN, RN, Instructor, School of Nursing; Palliative Care Nurse Interventionist, NPCRC, ENABLE CHF-PC; Project Coordinator, ACS Reducing Disparities in Palliative Care; Doctoral Candidate
Preliminary Results: A Theoretical Model of the Psychological Processes of Surrogate Decision-Making at Adult End-of-Life in the ICU using Cognitive Task Analysis

OCT 28 | Gabrielle Rocque, MD, Medical Director of the Patient Care Connect Program with the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
Integrating Palliative Care and Oncology: The University of Wisconsin Inpatient Experience

DEC 19 | Burel R. Goodin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology and Anesthesiology
The Role of Oxytocin in the Pain and Stress Responses of Older Adults

NOV 13 | Amos Bailey, MD, Professor and Director of Palliative Care Services - Birmingham VA Medical Center and Kathryn Burgio, PhD, Professor, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care
Hospice Emergency Kits in End-of-Life Care for Veterans in Home Settings

DEC 10 | Mona Fouad, MD, Professor, Division Director Preventive Medicine. CanCORS is one of the largest longitudinal cancer outcome trials undertaken
CanCORS Dataset