Archived Event
The Alliance Advancement Series
Ethical Considerations in Palliative Care for Transplant Patients
April 1, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm• EST
In this session, we will explore some of the ethical challenges transplant clinicians face in the realm of palliative care. We will describe some essential communication skills and strategies that transplant healthcare providers can leverage to balance uncertainty, obligations, and relationships during the pre-and post-transplant phases . By focusing on practical strategies and tools, our expert panel will focus on ways to improve both patient care and provider wellbeing .
- Identify practical communication skills for managing hope and concerns in transplant patients during the pre-transplant phase.
- Describe the ethical concerns of probing into patients’ personal lives and apply best practices for documenting these interactions.
- Outline the unique obligations patients, families, and clinicians hold in the post-transplant phase related to organ transplantation, with emphasis on the complexities of the decision-making process.
Richard Leiter
MD, MA
Senior Physician; Director, Adult Palliative Care Inpatient Consult Service Department of Supportive Oncology; Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Alliance Ambassador, Conversation Series Workgroup, Moderator, National Transplant Leadership Council, Quality Corner Workgroup, Transplant Quality Workgroup
Lecia Snell Kinen
MSN, RN, CCTC
Manager, Quality and Compliance
Keck Medical Center at USC
Members of the donation and transplantation community serving diverse populations to include administrators, coordinators, physicians, nurses, surgeons, managers, quality improvement specialists, social workers, and other donation and transplantation center professionals and their colleagues.
Continuing Education Credits
Continuing Education credits are no longer available for this learning opportunity.
