HAPC Medical Education is a non-profit virtual academy dedicated to bridging the global learning gap in advanced palliative medicine. We believe expert clinical insights should be accessible to all healthcare providers, free of institutional paywalls.
Here are the lectures for the upcoming semester:
January 15th 2026: Robin Plumer: Medical Aid in Dying
February 5th 2026: Rebecca Depew: Homelessness
February 19th 2026: Turner West: A History of Hospice Care, how we got to where we are, and where do we go from here?
March 19th 2026: Richie Redding: Relational Humor
April 2nd 2026: Lina Toledo Franco: Communication Strategies for “The Difficult Family”
April 16th 2026: Alexis Drutchas: WHEN WORDS STICK : The Hidden Cost of Patient Labels in Clinical Care
May 7th 2026: Maggie Clifton: Palliative Sedation
May 21st 2026: Mel Srolovitz: Hospice Psychosocial Support: Music Therapy and Death Doulas
June 5th 2026: Kevin Dieter: The Hospice Patient as Teacher
January 20th: Rev. Jerry Fonte
February 2nd: Kathryn Mannix
February 17th: Adam Marks – Ethics at the End of Life: a Case-Based Discussion
March 2nd: Katrina Nickels – Harm Reduction and Substance Use in Palliative Care
March 17th: Robin Plumer – Medical aid in dying
April 6th: Fred Grewe – The Value of End-of-Life Existential Distress
April 21st: Pam Carter – End of Life Doula on ACP
May 4th: Juan Pagan-Ferrer – Calciphylaxis
May 19th: Delia Chiaramonte – Integrative Medicine
June 1st: Daniel Shalev – Depression and Antidepressants in Palliative Care
June 3rd: Dr. Raj from Pallium India!
July 21st: Intro to Pediatric Palliative Care
August 3rd: Pediatric Palliative Care topic TBD
August 18th: Palliative Care in Advanced Lung Diseases Dr. Denise Sese
September 7th: Updates on EDI in Palliative Medicine Dr. Sonia Malhotra
September 15th: Non-Pain Symptom Management Dr. Shirley Codada
October 5th: Complementary Modalities Dr. Alessandra Colfi
October 20th Existential Distress and Demoralization in Palliative Care Leah Rosenberg
November 2nd: Practical Strategies for Palliative Care by Telemedicine
November 17th: Palliative Care and Heme Malignancies Dr. Jason Webb
December 7th: Cancer Rehabilitation Dr. Corrine Layne-Stuart
December 15th: Dr. Joseph McCollom
January 19th, 2023 Leah Rosenberg: Palliative Care for Jewish Patients
February 1st, 2023 Alex Gamble: Suicidality in the Palliative Care Patient
February 16th, 2023 Natasha Lee: Racism in Palliative Care
March 1st, 2023 Kristina Newport- Oncologist in my Pocket: Pearls for Upstream Care for patients with Cancer
March 16th, 2023 Jessica McFarlin – Consciousness and Prognosis after Cardiac Arrest
