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Remembering Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP

ABIM

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. Gerard Professor in Medicine, the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and ultimately the Dean for Medical Education.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

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.

Illness 110
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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

And so because you remember, board certification didn’t come around until 2007. So if you look at anything pre 2009, seven or nine in emergency medicine, anything that was published as an intervention was essentially a primary palliative care intervention. And at that time we had maybe 10, 25 people.