Program director @pedspctf. Co-Founder @CHPCC Former documentary filmmaker. Mom of 3, advocate for pediatric #palliative care. Tweets my own. #pedspc

San Francisco Bay Area
Joined October 2011
One thing @BlythCPN highlights is this: Pediatric Palliative Care is all about #HOPE. Hope is so important, and we share in hoping with families. #pedpc #hapc @PedsPCTF @CourageousCPN @CoalitionHPC
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💛It's Day 1 of the Pediatric Palliative Care Task Force 2021 Annual Meeting. We appreciate everyone who helped with planning. We look forward to two- days of amazing engagement and learning. #palliativecare #pedpc #hapc #hospice @AmyMelnick1 @DevonDabbs @PedsPCTF @RThienprayoon
“ I’m proud of you. I hope that you are proud of you too.”
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Palliative care is *not* giving up. That’s the tweet.
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"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."
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“When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind...but we won’t break.”
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"Some days, doing 'the best we can' may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else."
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Our team grew out of Anesthesia/Pain and many clinicians still refer to us as the "Pain team". So when I see patients primarily for pain, but they refer to us as "palliative", I smile. They get it. #hapc #pedpc #palonc #thisispalliativecare
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Meeting the #pedpc needs of all seriously ill children takes all of us. Check out these outstanding resources for adult #hapc providers.
'Pediatric Palliative Care for the Uninitiated' by @CourageousCPN. View self-produced videos by Michelle Moon, DO, HPM fellow where she distills some of the most salient issues in #pedspc >> courageousparentsnetwork.org… #hpm #hapc #pedpc #pediatrics
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That moment when @nytimes covers your article about the impact of #COVID19 on #pediatric #cancer #care around the 🌎! So proud to have been a part of this team. #WomenInScience nytimes.com/live/2021/03/03/… @DanielMoreiraMD @WorldSIOP @StJudeResearch @LancetChildAdol
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Another wonderful#pedspc resource. @PedsPCTF
Grateful for the opportunity to share our work. Thank you @justinnbaker @AbbyRosenbergMD @EricaKayeMD for all your support! Grief and Bereavement in Fathers After the Death of a Child: A Systematic Review pediatrics.aappublications.o…
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."
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The littlest lobbyist: a 6-year-old, whose life depends on ACA, heads to Capitol Hill ow.ly/Wg1p30cOPWG via@voxdotcom #DontCapMyCare
Population health applies to #pedpc as well! xitter.cf/CoalitionCCC/status/82…
Feb 21: Join Steven Pantilat, MD & learn how to apply population health strategies to #palliative care bit.ly/1njBgTH #hpm
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For the second year in a row @CoalitionCCC has curated a comprehensive #pedpc track at our Annual Summit bit.ly/2hjGDCd #cccc17
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Nominate a leader making a positive impact on the way Californians are cared for during serious illness bit.ly/2gSB3Yi #pedpc
Attn patients/caregivers in #PedPC: @CoalitionCCC is offering scholarships to our Annual Summit bit.ly/2ibdjMr #hpm
Great news! @CoalitionCCC annual summit will include a pediatric #palliative care track. Join us! bit.ly/2hjGDCd #pedpc #cccc17
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Great news! @CoalitionCCC annual summit will include a pediatric #palliative care track. Join us! bit.ly/2hjGDCd #pedpc #cccc17
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