Palliative Care ECHO

The GA-DPH Palliative Care Project ECHO provides a community learning platform for health care providers in urban and rural Georgia. We strongly encourage primary care providers and teams caring for patients with serious illness to attend. This includes internists, family practitioners, and adult/pediatric subspecialists in oncology, cardiac, pulmonary, neurology, renal, surgery, and intensive care. We plan on reviewing the literature discussing priorities of general practitioner and subspecialist priorities for palliative care education and surveying the palliative care and education committee along with members from GHPCO. In addition, we will query the palliative workgroup for GC3 to assess needs and topics.

Schedule

Palliative Care ECHO sessions are held virtually on the third Tuesday of every other month, from 12 pm - 1 pm (EST). 

Meet the Team

  • Rana Bayakly, MPH, Georgia Cancer Registry, Principal Investigator, Georgia DPH
  • Kimberly Curseen, MD, FAAHPM, Director of Outpatient Supportive Care; Emory Palliative Care Center Associate Professor; Division of Palliative Medicine
  • Ashima Lal, MD, Associate Medical Director, Grady Palliative Care Service. Assistant Professor, Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Paula Sanders, Executive Director, Georgia Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
  • Criss Sutton, MSW, PMP, Senior Research Associate, Georgia Health Policy Center

Contact Information

For additional information, please email [email protected].

If you would like to present a case in an upcoming session, please complete a case presentation form and submit to [email protected].  

View Past Palliative Care ECHO Presentations

NOTE: Some recordings have been edited to remove periods when technical issues were being resolved but no presentation content has been removed.

To receive information on any DPH ECHO, please visit GA DPH Project ECHO Registration Form

HIPAA Compliance: All patient information will be de-identified for presentation during sessions. To ensure HIPAA compliance during patient presentations, please identify your patient(s) only by their assigned ECHO ID.

Page last updated 10/2/25