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Palliative medicine: we believe in quality of life… throughout life… for all - the people we treat and the people who do this work

Guy surgeons. If a HUGE study comes out showing results consistent w other big studies that your female colleagues get better results, maybe read the paper & have a think about the reasons why that might be true. Bc when you are dismissive it honestly makes you look pretty bad.

She believed she could but it was uncompensated, non promotable work she had no interest in so she set a reasonable boundary, protected her time, and said no.

The first Journal Club of the academic year with our amazing palliative medicine fellows- Dr. Lara-Pacheco, Dr. Putman, Dr. Lee (Geri-Palliative), and Dr. Marinelli. Strong work today, Docs! #MedTwitter #MedEd

Our fearless Geriatrics Program Director Dr. Thompson and our awesome Geriatrics fellows - Dr. Ing, Dr. Haferkamp, and Dr. Lee (Geri-Palliative). #MedTwitter #MedEd

So honored to teach @ the Inaugural Symposium of Serious Illness Care: - “Yes and…” is key to improv & serious illness conversations - Improv = group meditation (be present) - flexibility & playfulness can make communication more effective & rewarding #palliativecare #improv

Carolyn Read, FNP & I presented a poster at Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) last Friday highlighting our communications training for serious illness conversations. It’s been fun doing this UChicagoGeriPal SHARE Network collaboration w/ Oak Street Health since 2019 #palliativecare #MedTwitter

A big thank you to my friend & mentor Kiran Turaga for his visionary leadership in embedding my palliative medicine clinic within his surgical oncology clinic way back in 2017. Kudos to Varun Bansal & our team for getting the results published 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #PalliativeCare #MedTwitter

“You can get palliative care while still getting potentially curative treatments”

A privilege to have worked with Tony Liu & my colleague Annie Vernon-Cwik, LCSW on this project during spring-summer 2022. We had the honor of interviewing African American elders living in the South Side of Chicago doing legacy work & #oralhistory liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/pm…

So proud of you, Tony! It was such a privilege to have worked with you on this project. Thank you for bringing your impressive experience as a former NPR producer to this project that is about history & storytelling.

We are so proud of our Dr. Shellie Williams (both a palliative medicine & geriatrics specialist, 3rd from right in green) who was recognized by UChicago Pritzker School of Medicine’s Academy for Distinguished Medical Educators You represent the very best of our section, Doc ❤️👏👏👏 #meded #MedTwitter

🥹 So proud of our 2024 Palliative Med Fellows (Dr. Marinelli, Dr. Putman & Dr. Lara-Pacheco), Geri Fellows (Dr. Ing & Dr. Haferkamp), & 2025 Combo Geri-Palliative Med Fellow (Dr. Lee). Bravo, Docs for prioritizing connecting w/ each other throughout the academic year #MedTwitter

A recent case study publication a/b serious illness conversations (helps get us to “What matters most”) w/ an elderly individual in the setting of an elective ortho surgery written by our fantastic Geri-Palli ‘25 fellow Patty Lee (with guidance from Lauren Gleason MD, MPH, CMD & Sandy Tun, MD FAAHPM)

So proud of you Patty Lee for all of your hardwork on this publication. Well done, Doc 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Did Dolly Parton manifest Beyoncé's "Jolene" cover two years ago?

Me carrying my toddler 99% of the way after they refused to sit in the stroller & insisted that they want to walk on their own 🙃 #parenting

Graduation dinner with our fellows: Dr. Patty Lee (Geri-Palliative ‘25), Dr. Abrahan Lara-Pacheco (Palliative ‘24), Dr. Maggie Putman (Palliative ‘24), & (not pictured) Dr. Melissa Marinelli (Palliative ‘24). I am so proud of you all & know that your futures are bright ❤️🥹