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- Country of Residence:
- USA
- City and State/Providence of Residence:
- Worcester County, MA
- Email Address:
- s.mak@mac.com
- CEOLC Programs (select all that apply) graduated from or associated with:
- Upaya Being With Dying Program, Other
- Professional Practice (select all that apply):
- Educator, Physician
- About Me:
- Palliative Care physician at UMass Memorial Healthcare, and on faculty at UMass Medical School. I am working with Saki Santorelli in the Center for Mindfulness, and hope to co-teach a course with Saki and Emily Ferrara (a wonderful poet) on reflective practices for medical students. Also in the works is a self-emergent, interdisciplinary faculty scholarship/fellowship in palliative care where reflection and contemplative practices will be woven throughout.
Board of Directors of Ron Hoffman's Compassionate Care ALS, a group dedicated to lend strength to patients with ALS and their families. Ron is also a prior participant of Upaya's Being with Dying.
My official current title is: Assistant Professor of Medicine - Director of Palliative Care Services and Education, Cancer Center, UMass Memorial Medical Center.
Note: my other email is: suzana.makowski@gmail.com
- Special Interests:
- Contemplative/mindfulness; self-awareness practice to enhance physician professionalism; medical humanities.
- Current Projects:
- Facilitating/coordinating the Faculty Fellowship in Palliative Care: a learning community for people in Worcester County interested in preparing for certification in Palliative Care. Part of this program includes self-awareness practices of mindfulness, narrative, appreciative inquiry, medical humanities.
HPM-PASS writing committee. AAHPM Quality & Practice Standards Taskforce.
AVD faculty development in self-awareness/narrative medicine/contemplative practice of medicine.
Communication in healthcare.
Collaboration with UMass Center for Mindfulness.
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February 11-14, 2010
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How wonderful to hear that you're at UMASS! I'm planning to be @ Omega and then UMASS next July for the CFM 9 day intensive practicum, so if you're around, I'd love to catch up.
It's great to hear what you've been up to in palliative care and with medical students. I've been working with University of Toronto 2nd year medical students on what sounds so similar to your AVD faculty development - self-awareness, narrative medicine, appreciative inquiry all under the title of an elective in spirituality. I'll be doing research on this in 2010 and am very interested to hear what about your program.
And, I have worked with some palliative care MDs on 3rd & 4th year medical student workshops on EOL care and do training on spirituality for hospice volunteers and volunteer with Gitche M'Qua who bring in Roshi Joan Halifax, Sharon Shalzberg to Toronto under an EOL umbrella.
I continue to work at Toronto General Hospital offering spiritual care to patients, families and staff in Emerg and GIM and create interprofessional collaboration/education opportunities for staff and students.
Suzana, I tried to post a comment to you earlier in the week and I don't think it worked, so I'm also going to email this comment to you.
Thanks so much for keeping in touch.
Take good care,
Kanae
Great to hear from you and read that you're at U MASS and doing wonderful things there! I'm hoping to head there in July to attend the 9 day intensive put on by CFM - I think it's 5 days at Omega and 4 days in Worchester, so if you're free I'd love to connect with you.
It's heartwarming to read about your doing reflective practices with medical students. I'm currently working with a 2nd year medical student on a research project to look at the influence of an experiential, reflective 'elective' in spirituality on 2nd year medical students, how synchronistic! Also working on some research around spirituality and health care professionals at the University Health Network (comprised of 3 hospitals), here in Toronto. We offer a 6 week, 3.5 hour/week program, again reflective and experiential for health care providers and we want to see how this impacts participants first in themselves and then in their interactions with others. Would love to hear what you're doing with medical students in terms of reflective practice.
And, I'm also working with 2 palliative care MDs at the U of Toronto to help shape end of life experiences for 3rd and 4th year medical students.
I'm interested to learn more about the Faculty Fellowship in Palliative Care that you're working on. I love the combination of appreciative inquiry, narrative, mindfulness.
You're involved with incredible initiatives! Look forward to hearing more. So wonderful to hear what you're doing these days!
ciao! gary