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Remembering Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP

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Humphrey, MD, MACP, a nationally renowned leader in medical education and President of the Josiah Macy Jr. She served as the chair of the Board from 2006 to 2007 and chair of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees from 2014 to 2016. Foundation, passed yesterday from pancreatic cancer.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Susan: Beautiful.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. And so because you remember, board certification didn’t come around until 2007. Does just communication education, has that been shown to work? So let’s just start there. Would I have done this a little bit differently?