Dear All,
So wonderful to meet everyone and see the interest in Palliative Care at SGIM! Below are the take home points from our meeting and ideas for 2026 workshop submissions. Please feel free to use the google sheets form to add your name if you are interested in joining any particular topic and reach out to other interested members. You can also add additional topics if you would like! Also, if everyone could join the Palliative Medicine SIG from the Forum website, this will be our normal mode of communication instead of email threads, but feel free to email Katalina and Cari directly if there is anything we can help with.
Best,
Cari and Katalina
2026 Topic Ideas/leads: (SGIM allows up to 5 authors and submissions go best if you can partner with another SIG for sponsorship — let us know if you need help connecting)
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How to effectively utilize your interdisciplinary team
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Serious illness conversations across language barriers (Carine, Katalina, Zamina, Troy, Medical Interpreter)
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AI in prognostication (EOL care index)
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Palliative Care Story Exchange (possible expert/invited talk) - (Carine)
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C suite thoughts on health care utilization, practice management, quality, etc (Kencee, Aziz)
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Disease specific symptom management (2.0 from prognostication talk) (Aziz, Rachel, Katalina, Cari )
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Additional disease specific thoughts: (Cari would love to join anyone interested in these)
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Parkinson's disease across the continuum (Cari and neuro expert ??)
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Dementia, HF, Cirrhosis, ESRD deep dive on symptom management
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Billing and Coding, effectively utilizing advance care planning codes (Lars)
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Patient prognostic awareness (Lars)
Broader initiative considerations for scholarly work that we discussed:
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? SGIM Webinars (Katalina will look into options)
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Grand rounds collaborative (send topics to the forum that you have to share with others)
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Group specific education (i.e. Lars on billing and coding)
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Utilizing the forum to connect with others for scholarly work outside of SGIM