Cambia Health Foundation Welcomes New Coho Sojourns Scholars to Advance the Field of Palliative Care
The Cambia Health Foundation recently announced the new cohort for the Sojourns Scholar Leadship Program. The program, which is a new initiative designed to identify, cultivate and advance the next generation of palliative care leaders, provides ten promising palliative care doctors and nurses with $180,000 in funding to conduct an innovative impactful clinical, research, education or policy project in the field of palliative care. Among those named were Abraham Brody (Hartford Institute Geriatric Undergraduate Scholars) and Elizabeth Lindenberger (Hartford Change AGEnt).
The Cambia Health Foundation recently announced the new cohort for the Sojourns Scholar Leadship Program. The program, which is a "new initiative designed to identify, cultivate and advance the next generation of palliative care leaders," provides ten promising palliative care doctors and nurses with $180,000 in funding to conduct an innovative impactful clinical, research, education or policy project in the field of palliative care. Among those named were Abraham Brody (Hartford Institute Geriatric Undergraduate Scholars) and Elizabeth Lindenberger (Hartford Change AGEnt).
With palliative care recently gaining more exposure in national headlines by highlighting the need to advance the palliative care workforce capacity such as the Institute of Medicine's report, "Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life," the Cambia Health Foundation new initiative hopes to form "strategic partnerships that will advance patient-centered, effective palliative care that improves quality of life by addressing the physical, intellectual, emotional, cultural and spiritual needs of patients and their families."
Hartford grantee Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and one of the five national palliative care experts on the advisory committee selected the 2014 Sojourns Scholars.“These physicians and nurses bring experience and perspective that will certainly influence the palliative care workforce for years to come. After spending a significant amount of time with each award recipient, we feel that the future of palliative care is in good hands," Dr. Meier said.
To learn more about the eight doctors and two nurses who make up the 2014 Sojourns Scholars cohort, head over to Cambia Health Foundation's website.
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