Director, Pediatric Palliative Care and Comfort Team
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
K Sarah Hoehn, MD, MBe, is board certified in pediatric critical care medicine, pediatrics, and pediatric hospice and palliative medicine. At the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, she is the Director of the Pediatric Supportive Care Team program, which encompasses pain, palliative care and integrative medicine. She is also an Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and she co directs the Ethics Consultation program for the hospital. In addition, she is an assistant program director of the pediatrics residency, for wellbeing and resilience. Her research interests include studying the impact of standard triggers for palliative care consultation, addressing health care disparities in palliative care and studying burnout among trainees and attending. She is involved in addressing food insecurity at a local level, by managing a community fridge. Her passion is to encourage patients, families and health care workers to find joy amidst difficult circumstances.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US CST