Spring 2024
Featured
Feature
Pediatric Palliative Care is Essential to Person-Centered Quality Care For Children With Serious Illness
Larry Beresford It has often been said that children are not little adults and should not be treated as little adults when it comes to their medical care or to the roles played in that care by palliative care and...
In this Issue
Meet AAHPM President
Vicki Jackson, MD MPH FAAPHM
What led you to the specialty of hospice and palliative medicine? During my residency, I had a formative experience caring for a young man who was living with AIDs isolated, alone, and estranged from his family. In working with him...
Advocacy Update
AAHPM Champions Expanded Access to Hospice
Wendy Chill The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is committed to promoting hospice integrity, quality, and equity so that all with serious illness receive the right care at the right time. The Academy continues to take bold...
DEI LAB
Celebrating DEI at the 2024 Annual Assembly
Corey Tapper, MD MS , and Arshia Madni, MD FAAP The AAHPM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Committee were thrilled to collaborate on planning this...
Quarterly Progress Report
AAHPM Points of Progress
Expand and Enhance Engagement AAHPM membership was at 5,361, with a 1% increase in student, resident, and professionals in training memberships. Our top AAHPM products sold are the Essentials book set, followed by the newly released HPM Pass 4th edition....
AAHPM Partner Updates
HMDCB Update
Initial Application Is Open Attention hospice physicians! The initial application is now open through July 31, 2024! Highlight your knowledge as a hospice physician and join the HMDCB community by earning your hospice medical director certification (HMDC) credential this year....
AAHPM News
AAHPM News
AAHPM Announces 2024-2025 Board of Directors AAHPM is proud to announce its board of directors for 2024-2025. The newly elected members of the board began their terms at the close of the 2024 Annual Assembly in Phoenix, AZ, on March...