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Center for Palliative and Supportive Care

Center for Palliative and Supportive Care

Personalized, innovative, and expert

The UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care is a driving force in the field of palliative and supportive care, leading the way in competent and compassionate clinical care, collaborative research, community outreach and training.

Personalized care for the stress of serious illness.

We use a comprehensive approach by focusing on the whole patient; addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering of disease. Our interdisciplinary team is committed to supporting patients and their families through the stress of serious illness.

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Innovative answers to the challenges of providing serious illness care.

At the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, our researchers focus on seeking out innovative answers for palliative Care problems. We are committed to supporting the clinical efforts of palliative care by studying all five domains.

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Expert clinicians training the next generation of Palliative Care team

In addition to our renowned Palliative Medicine Fellowship, our expert clinicians provide extraordinary learning opportunities for the entire healthcare team through time-tested programs such as the Clinical Training Academy and the Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ Program.

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The UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care is pleased to announce the 2016 Palliative Research Enhancement Project "PREP" awardees. The three awardees will receive funding for pilot projects which incorporate palliative, supportive, or survivorship care. To date, the PREP pilot program has awarded over $180,000 towards 10 innovative projects helping to secure over $900,000 in external funding.

We are exceedingly excited about the impact that these pilot projects will have on the palliative care community. Congratulations to these three UAB Investigators!

IyerDr. Anand Iyer

"ENABLE: COPD-PC - Developing a Palliative Care Intervention for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and their Caregivers"

JablonskiJaudon RitaDr. Rita Jablonski-Jaudon

"Clinician and Consumer Perspectives Regarding Advance Care Planning (ACP) Best-Practice Conversations at Four Different Stages of Dementia"

sharfeldinDr. Noha Sharafeldin

"Intervention strategies to improve cognitive functioning in hematologic cancer survivors after hematopoietic cell transplantation"