New Month, New Faculty

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Dr West

    We’re heading out of April and into May, which we can celebrate with the first few legitimate spring-like and rain-free days in Seattle in a long while.  I’m also very happy to announce that we’ll be adding a new Monthly Guest Expert Faculty Member for May, Dr. Stephanie Harman.

 It was relatively easy for her to take a nice picture in the sunshine, because she’s working at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, CA, where they can take beautiful days for granted.  Her particular specialty is palliative care and symptom management, and she serves as the Medical Director for Stanford’s Palliative Care program, which serves both the inpatient (hospitalized) and outpatient (people coming in for clinic visits from home) communities.

    If you find that her words have a special flare, credit her background as a literary studies major at Williams College before heading to Cleveland for her medical school training at Case Western Reserve University (with Dr. Pennell there and my hailing from there, I’m starting to think that all roads lead to Cleveland).  Inexplicably, she left sunny Cleveland to head to northern California, where she did her internal medicine training and then a fellowship in palliative care at Stanford. 

    Now heading their relatively new Palliative Care Program, she’s going to be able to provide some real expertise and a great perspective on issues ranging from fatigue to pain control to bowel care and issues such as how to move toward hospice care. 

    I’m delighted that Dr. Pennell will be continuing to participate regularly, and Dr. Sanborn has also indicated that she’s become quite fond of this community and is interested in continuing to contribute, both in terms of posts and on the discussion forums.  And one of these days I’ll be catching up with each of them in person for long enough to record an audio interview that will become a podcast or two, so you’ll be able to add a voice to the pictures and words.

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