This webinar clarifies what palliative care is, with a panel of each member of the interdisciplinary palliative care team from UCSF, Stanford, and Sutter Health. They use a case study to discuss their role, and how they collaborate to provide people living with serious illness and their loved ones a better quality of life. They also describe how to access palliative care in the San Francisco Bay Area, followed by Q&A.
Speakers:
-Redwing Keyssar, RN, Director of Patient and Caregiver Education at UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care
-Sarah Holland, BSN, RN, CHPN, UCSF symptom management service
-Ramy Salah, MD, palliative care physician at Sutter Health
-Kafunyi Mwamba, Dmin, DCC, palliative care spiritual care provider at Stanford Health Care
-Karen Yung, LCSW, outpatient palliative care social worker at Stanford Health Care
-Gayle Kojimoto, Program Manager, UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care
-Grant Smith, MD, palliative care physician at Stanford Medicine
