“Building resilience: Helping seriously ill patients live well”

Juliet Jacobsen, MD

Fellowship Director, Harvard Palliative Medicine Fellowship

Assistant Professor, Medicine and Palliative Care

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by the section of Palliative Medicine and the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1. Become familiar with the data supporting early palliative care
2. Recognize when are patients are expressing prognostic awareness through hope-worry oscillation
3. Build resilience in patients facing serious illness

Juliet Jacobsen, MD

Juliet Jacobsen received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Chicago, where she also completed medical school. After serving for five years as a general medical officer in the Air Force, she went on to complete internal medicine residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and palliative medicine fellowship at MGH. She is an attending on the MGH palliative care service and Fellowship Director of the Harvard Palliative Medicine Fellowship. Her research interests focus on how fellows learn to communicate with patients about prognosis and how patients adapt to prognostic information over time, particularly in the outpatient setting.

Cook, Eat, Learn: Skills to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Partnerships with Patients—This year-long nutrition and culinary curriculum is open to all members of the Department of Medicine and rotating students. Join the DH Culinary Medicine Program staff at 7:30a every Friday before Medical Grand Rounds in the lobby outside Auditorium E and F for:

If you are unable to attend and would like to either view Grand Rounds live on your computer or if you would like to view it another time, please use this link.

http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html