Podcasts (2018)
Palliative Care Chat® is a podcast designed for health care professionals who are interested in hospice and palliative care, particularly those who may be interested in enrolling in the online MS in Palliative Care and Graduate Certificates program. Explore episodes that aired in 2018 below.
To listen to current episodes, please visit this webpage.
Episode 18: Conversation with Barbara Karnes (The Little Blue Book Lady!)
In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews Barbara Karnes, RN, author of "the Little Blue Book," Gone from My Sight: The Dying Experience. Download full transcript here.
Episode 17: All Things Psych in Palliative Care
In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews Jason A. Webb, MD, assistant professor of medicine, psychiatry, and behavioral medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, about psych issues related to the end of life. Download full transcript here.
Episode 16: Music Therapy for Seriously Ill Pediatric Patients
In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews Yelena Zatulovsky, MA, vice president of patient experience for Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, about the importance of music therapy for seriously ill pediatric patients. Download full transcript here.
Episode 15: "Ten Tips Palliative Care Pharmacists Want the Palliative Care Team to Know When Caring for Patients"
In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews three of her palliative care pharmacy colleagues with whom she recently co-authored a new paper titled "Ten Tips Palliative Care Pharmacists Want the Palliative Care Team to Know When Caring for Patients." Download full transcript here.
Episode 14: An Interview with Dr. Leah Sera
In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews Leah Sera, PharmD, MA, BCPS, assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, about her project on anticholinergic burden in hospice patients. Download full transcript here.
Episode 13: An Interview with Dr. Jennifer Kennedy
In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews Jennifer Kennedy, BSN, MA, EdD, senior director of regulatory and quality affairs at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, about "short stay syndrome," including why it happens and what hospices can do about it. Download full transcript here.
Episode 12: No One Dies Alone
In this episode of Palliative Care Chat, Dr. McPherson interviews Chaplain Karuna Thompson and current MS in Palliative Care student Marty Crittenden. Chaplain Thompson is with the Oregon State Penitentiary and Marty Crittenden works as a volunteer at the Oregon State Penitentiary training hospice inmates in the facility to provide hospice care and volunteer services to their colleagues in the facility. Download full transcript here.
Episode 11: An Interview with Dr. Edmund Tori
In this episode Dr. McPherson interviews Edmund A. Tori, DO, associate director of the MedStar Institute for Innovation and director of the Influence Center. Download full transciption here.
