About the Fellowship: Clinical Training: Palliative Care

Duke Hospital Palliative Care Service

An exciting addition to Duke University Medical Center, this service began in May 2003.
Four of the Geriatric Medicine Faculty will be participating, with Anthony N. Galanos, M.A., M.D., as Director of the service.
The service provides both Palliative Care Consults and inpatient care.
Anchored by Jennifer Gentry, N.P., the service will have rotating attendings from different disciplines (from Oncology to Geriatrics).
The Fellow will be involved in direct patient care, and will round daily with the Nurse Practitioner.
The Fellow also assists in Palliative Care consultations, and attends team meetings twice a week.

DHCC includes Duke community programs of hospice, home health care, infusion services and bereavement.
Toni Cutson, MD, a faculty member in the division of geriatrics, is medical director.
Fellows work with a community hospice program care team, including Dr. Cutson, the hospice nurse, a social worker, a chaplain, CNAs, volunteers, bereavement counselors, and a nurse practitioner.
Fellows will accompany the nurse, social worker and/or chaplain on visits to the patient’s home or facility. Each patient is presented at interdisciplinary rounds every two weeks.
In addition to patients cared for in their home or in a facility, patients are also seen in the 6 bed inpatient care facility (ICF).
For more information, please visit the Duke Health Community Care website.