Monthly Work In Progress

Presented by:
Dr. Marion Aouad
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, S-SPIRE
&
Dr. Liam Rose
Research Health Economist, S-SPIRE
Stanford University, School of Medicine

Title: “Utilization for Veterans with Expanded Healthcare Access ”

Monthly Work-In-Progress Session-CANCELLED

Presented by:

Amber Trickey, PhD       &      Sylvia Merrell, DrPH
Sr. Biostatistician                         Research Scholar
S-SPIRE Center                            S-SPIRE Center
Stanford University                    Stanford University

Title: “Conceptual Frameworks and Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs): Why We Need (and Love) Them”

Monthly Work-In-Progress Session

Presented by:
Seshadri Mudumbai, MD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Staff Anesthesiologist, VA Palo Alto HCS

Title: “Distributed Research Networks and Opioids: A Veterans Health Affairs Perspective”

Cancelled due to the 14th Annual Academic Surgical Congress.

We will resume on March 4, 2019!

Monthly Work-In-Progress Session

Presented by:
Douglas B. White, MD, MAS
UPMC Endowed Chair of Ethics in Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine
Director, Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness, CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine
Vice-Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Critical Care Medicine

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Title:  “Conducting Trials of Interventions to Improve Communication and Decision Making in ICUs”

Monthly Work-In-Progress Session

Presented by:
Sofia C. Zambrano, PhD
Psychologist & Postdoctoral Researcher
University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland

Title: “Talking about death and caring for dying patients: A qualitative perspective on physicians’ and surgeons’ experiences and needs.”

Short Bio

Sofia C. Zambrano is a Colombian psychologist and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Sofia obtained her PhD from The University of Adelaide, Australia and her dissertation on how physicians experience the death of their patients was awarded the Dean’s commendation for Research Excellence.  Her main research interests lie in understanding the psychological impact that communicating about death and dying has on healthcare professionals, patients, and families.  She is the principal investigator of an international project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation that aims to understand how and when physicians decide to communicate with patients and their significant others about the end of life. Together with her Australian husband, she spends her free time in either the Swiss mountains or at opposite ends of the earth, where their friends and family are.