Neonatology
Clinical Bioethics
Nephrology
Adolescent Medicine
Sarah Swartz, MD
Associate Professor Pediatrics, Medical Director Chronic Dialysis
Pediatrics, Renal Section
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States
Aaron Wightman, MD MA
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
University Of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington, United States
Advanced chronic kidney disease is a treatable, but life-limiting and incurable process characterized by significant burdens for the patient, family, and even clinicians. Recognition of the importance of palliative interventions to minimize these burdens has increased dramatically in recent years in adult dialysis patients and other pediatric populations, and palliative care consultation is now included in standard recommendations such as the RPA guideline on shared decision-making in dialysis. Despite this, pediatric nephrology has had a relative dearth of scholarship in palliative care. This symposium will unite experts in palliative medicine and nephrology to disseminate expertise in symptom management, communication, compassionate conservative care, and provider moral distress and burnout in order to empower pediatric nephrologists to take an increased role providing primary palliative care to their patients and propose new avenues of collaboration and scholarship between pediatric nephrology and palliative care.
Presenter: Ami Doshi, MD – UC San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital
Presenter: Aaron Wightman, MD MA – University Of Washington School of Medicine
Presenter: Tyler Tate, MD MA – Oregon Health and Sciences University
Presenter: Aviva Goldberg, MD, MA – University of Manitoba
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