Dr. Weissman is Director of the Palliative Medicine Program and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Neoplastic Diseases & Related Disorders. He is nationally recognized for his work in designing and implementing novel health professional education strategies for pain management and palliative care. He is currently funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) to improve medical school eduction, the JEHT Foundation in support of the Palliative Care Leadership Center Project and CAPC, in support of education product development. Dr. Weissman is Co-Director of EPERC (End of Life Palliative Education Resource Center) - a national resource center for high quality, peer reviewed End of Life educational materials. Dr. Weissman was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal, Journal of Palliative Medicine.
Dr. Blust, Medical College Internist, is committed to improving physician/patient communication and end-of-life care through resident and student education. Currently, she is the Director of Undergraduate Education in Palliative Care, Co-Director of the Medical Ethics and Palliative Care Course for M2s, and the Coordinator of the Communication Skills Curriculum for M3 Medicine Clerkship. Her practice is focused on general medical inpatients and palliative patients.
Lisa Marr, MD completed her training in internal medicine at the University of Maryland Medical School and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. After working several years as a general internist, she completed a fellowship in palliative care at the Harvard Center for Palliative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She joined the MCW Palliative Care Service in 2003, and is also the Director of the Fellowship Program. Her interests are in palliative care education, physician/patient communication, and spiritual care at the end of life.
Drew completed his fellowship with the Palliative Care Center in 2006, after completing his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He has continued on as faculty since July 2006. He has an interest in palliative care education and evidence-based medicine. Drew is the current editor of Fast Facts and Concepts and blogs about palliative care research and news at Pallimed.
Jo Weis is a licensed psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is also Director of Behavioral Medicine for Palliative Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Hospital. She collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians and nurses who administer to palliative care patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. She is one of the research clinicians pioneering the use of imagery rescripting and reprocessing therapy as a treatment modality for persons with posttraumatic stress disorder. Her research interests in addition to posttraumatic stress disorder include psychological issues and resilience at end-of-life, and supervision of oncology and palliative fellows.