The Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program in the Department of Anesthesiology is an ACGME approved interdisciplinary fellowship. Applicants who have completed (or will complete) an ACGME approved residency in one of the following disciplines are eligible to apply:

The diversity of clinical training programs at the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian provides an ideal setting for interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration, not only in the Inter Disciplinary Teams (IDT), but also across disciplines that participate in the care of this patient population. The year long experience encompasses the medical, psychosocial, and spiritual domains of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. In this new educational program, we aim to attain excellence in fellowship training and preparation of future leaders in the clinical, educational and research goals of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Program Director
John M Saroyan MD FAAP is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Pain Management and Palliative care in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics. Dr Saroyan maintains an active inpatient and outpatient pediatric pain and palliative clinical practice. His research includes pediatric pain and palliative care as well as resident education. He has a long-standing commitment to education in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. 

The fellowship will include: Five months of inpatient adult palliative medicine consultation, one month of pediatric pain and palliative medicine, one month at the Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center, two months of inpatient hospice, two months of home hospice, and a longitudinal ambulatory care experience. The fellow will have an active role at all sites of the fellowship while working with the respective IDTs. One month of elective time will be offered to pursue research or a clinical rotation including: Ethics, Radiation Oncology, Integrative therapies, Interventional Pain Medicine, Consultation Psychiatry, Geriatric Medicine or Neurology/Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Rotation Sites:

Fellows will attend lectures on multiple topics including:

These lectures will be provided  by the Palliative Medicine faculty and faculty from the Departments of: Anesthesiology, Medicine, Psychiatry, Neurology, Family Medicine, Genetics, Ethics, Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Emergency Medicine, Gynecology and from the Schools of Public Health, Social Work and Nursing.

Research topics include:

Participation in clinical research will be offered with faculty in the:

 
Opportunities for self-reflection will be provided by attending clinicians from:

Exposure to the administrative aspects of Hospice and Palliative Medicine will occur both in the hospital and home hospice settings.

Didactics include:

Faculty

The diversity of different clinical training programs at the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian (the Sponsoring Institution) provides an ideal setting for interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration, within the IDT's, but also across the different clinical disciplines that participate in the care of the patient population, adult and pediatric.

Hospice and Palliative Medicine faculty are drawn from a variety of disciplines including, Hospice and Palliative Medicine (CUMC and rotation sites), Pain Medicine, Psychiatry, Pain Psychology, Narrative Medicine, Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, Surgery, Gynecologic Oncology, Emergency Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Neurology, Social Work, Nursing, Pastoral Care, Critical Care, Ethics, and the Schools of Nursing and Dentistry.

Craig Blinderman, MD, MA
William Schechter, MD, M.S., F.A.A.P.
John Saroyan, MD, F.A.A.P.
Michael L. Weinberger, MD

Current Fellows (2011-12):

Dorothy Weiss, MD
MD Harvard Medical School
EdM: Harvard Graduate School of Education
Residency: PM& R Harvard/Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Fellowship: Neuromuscular/EMG Harvard/ Brigham and Women's Hospital/MGH

David Chmielewski, MD
MD: University at Buffalo, State University of New York
MA: Columbia University Teachers College
Residency: Internal Medicine NYU
Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital Center

ERAS for Applicants
(All applications must be submitted thru ERAS)

For further information please contact:
Tara E. Brant
Coordinator, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program
622 West 168th Street, PH 5
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-305-5232
E-mail: to2106@columbia.edu