Richard Leiter (MD, MA) is palliative care physician, writer, and researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He serves as Director of the Adult Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service and directs the Dana-Farber Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care’s Writing Core. Dr. Leiter received his medical degree and an MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed Internal Medicine residency and Chief Residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center before matriculating to the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship Program. Dr. Leiter writes about the intersection of palliative care and ethics, and the emotional experience of working in the field. His writing has been published in the New York Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, STATNews, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Cell, among others. Dr. Leiter is a 2024 recipient of the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Physician Award for end-of-life care.
Ethical Considerations in Palliative Care for Transplant Patients
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, at 3:00pm
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 .