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Remembering Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP

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Holly had a long and meaningful relationship with ABIM dating back to her first days on the ABIM Board of Directors in 2001. 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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So, for instance, would it have made a difference if, as a requirement in this study, every single emergency department who was eligible to be in the intervention had to have a relationship with a n inpatient hospice for which discharge was immediately available to an emergency department? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.