Pediatric Palliative Care Research
With a growing clinical research arm, PACT faculty are engaged in various degrees of scholarly exploration that are pushing the field of pediatric hospice and palliative medicine forward on a regional and national level.
Themes for faculty scholarly work include:
- Metrics for pediatric palliative care programs and promoting high-quality pediatric palliative care
- Palliative care in pediatric oncology
- Teaching primary palliative care communication skills to sub-specialty pediatricians
- Integrative therapies and pediatric palliative care
- Palliative care in pediatric HIV
- Disparities in pediatric serious illness
- Cross-cultural palliative care training and education
- Pediatric concurrent care and community hospice