Palliative Care ECHO

The GA-DPH Palliative Care Project ECHO seeks to virtually bring palliative care experts to centers around Georgia. These monthly, virtual, tele-mentoring sessions focus on amplifying the capacity of local teams to provide best-practice primary palliative care to all regions of Georgia. Palliative care topics will be presented via didactic and case presentations to expand the knowledge base and skill set of physicians, Advance Practice Providers, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and other team members who work in hospital, community/ outpatient or home settings caring for children or adult patients with cancer or other serious illnesses.  This includes primary care, pediatricians, internists, or family practitioners as well as oncology, cardiology, pulmonary, critical care, neurology, renal, surgery and palliative care/hospice interdisciplinary teams.

Objective

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.

Curriculum

These ECHO sessions are bi-monthly, typically on the third Tuesday, from 12 pm - 1 pm (EST). Please see the schedule below: 

DateTimeTopic

2024

  
10/1/24 Pediatric Case Presentation: https://vimeo.com/1015270673/b7fe3be043
6/18/24 Opioid Use Disorder: https://vimeo.com/961450124/3c51f33251
4/16/24 Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies in Palliative Care: https://vimeo.com/935840899/b28c47679f?share=copy
2/20/24 Understanding How Microaggressions Can Limit Palliative Care: https://vimeo.com/915172503/577a505cda?share=copy

2023

  
11/28/23 

Case Presentation - Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Palliative Care

https://vimeo.com/901549485/e5dbffe45a?share=copy

10/24/23 Caring for the Unrepresented: https://vimeo.com/877892891/acb230d27c?share=copy
9/26/23 Unconscious Bias: Implications for the Workplace and Patient Care : https://vimeo.com/869170951/959a58696a?share=copy
8/29/23 

Surrogate Decision Making:

https://vimeo.com/859200885/eaaa1eace2?share=copy

6/27/23 Existential Suffering : https://vimeo.com/840435734/70480f7970?share=copy
4/25/23 Perinatal and Neonatal Palliative Care https://vimeo.com/821284736/86d9171d2d?share=copy
3/28/23 

Homeless Should Not Mean Hopeless: How Housing Insecurity Impacts Pain Management in Palliative Care Patients 

https://vimeo.com/812831365/528bd612b7

2/28/23 

Total Pain

https://vimeo.com/803615506/bfaa271b64

Tuesday,

01/24/2023

 

Transitioning a Patient from Palliative Care to Hospice 

https://vimeo.com/792613731/6670edd04c

2022

  
Wednesday, January 19, 2022     12PM-1PM

Introduction to ECHO; Why ECHO; Georgia Cancer Strategic Plan: 2019-2024

https://vimeo.com/669548925/10a557fa5c

Evaluation link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5p2yUVw1029g00bYzDkp2vdhpSZV0Qrw-3jYlMTdaUfMwrA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Tuesday, February 15, 20224pm - 5pm

Palliative Care 101 with Perceived Barrier

https://vimeo.com/678315552/adfe83499a

Evaluation link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTyTCWevCYCej-0wMOn0VNWw34v-6aBLQ7Wq9t50jk9L-gVQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Thursday, March 17, 20228am-9am

Communication Skills

https://vimeo.com/691182237/51f4d912a8

Evaluation link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiPouGmJzrdUcQMEblxLuBBwiSht2eUpo4UdJoRgWf-MVNRw/viewform?usp=sf_link

Friday, April 15, 202212 PM- 1PM

ACP/Medical Decision Making

https://vimeo.com/701797485/9ddd5b9361

Evaluation link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZ3EJg8KzSxUpFHdWLWU5SEWyfN-v1WiknqnFP3Xaw0po3EQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

Wednesday, May 18, 20224pm -5pm

Pain Management

https://vimeo.com/713749541/2a1eaffc5d

Tuesday, June 14, 20228am - 9am

Cultural Biases

https://vimeo.com/723582493/077a1e16e0

Tuesday, July 19, 202212 PM- 1 PM

Palliative Care Emergencies

https://vimeo.com/730071257/7fc4e16676

Wednesday, August 17, 20224pm-5pm

Symptom Management

https://vimeo.com/742662504/ec5458a3a5

Thursday, Sept 22, 20228am - 9am

Spiritual Care

https://vimeo.com/754826192/c37d6b7a1f

Thursday, October 20, 202212 PM- 1 PM

Code Status/POLST Form   

https://vimeo.com/762762037/35d90408dd

Wednesday, November 16, 20224pm - 5pm

Pediatric and Young Adult Palliative Care

https://vimeo.com/778618463/7e8770df8e

Tuesday, December 13, 20228am - 9am

End of Life Care/Hospice

https://vimeo.com/781158634/b4519ee2c7

 

Meet the Team:

Georgia Palliative Care  ECHO Team:

  • 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
  • Katharine Brock, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Emory University Director, Supportive Care Clinic, Aflac Cancer & Blood Disorders Center Physician, Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT), Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
  • Kimberly Curseen, MD, FAAHPM, Director of Outpatient Supportive Care; Emory Palliative Care Center Associate Professor; Division of Palliative Medicine
  • Paula Sanders, Executive Director, Georgia Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
  • Criss Sutton, MSW, PMP, Senior Research Associate, Georgia Health Policy Center
  • Rana Bayakly, MPH, Georgia Cancer Registry, Principal Investigator, Georgia DPH

Contact Information:

The goal of the GA-DPH Palliative Care Project ECHO is to expand your understanding, so if you need more information, please email us at [email protected].  We are always happy to provide further information and answer any questions.

If you are interested in joining this or any other DPH ECHO, please visit https://forms.gle/RRGh6AF1zj9D9TMN7.

If you would like to present a case in an upcoming session, please complete a case presentation form using the Case Presentation and please submit the form to the following Download this pdf file. Palliative Care ECHO Presentation Form

Page last updated 1/25/23