Aug
22
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: Wait, what just happened?! Microaggressions and their macro-consequences @ LKSC Berg Hall
Aug 22 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: Wait, what just happened?! Microaggressions and their macro-consequences @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: VJ Periyakoil, MD
Associate Professor of Primary Care and Population Health

Stanford University

VJ Periyakoil, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine; Director, Stanford Palliative Care Education & Training Program & the Stanford Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program.

Dr. Periyakoil is a member of the study section for the National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health, the Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Palliative Medicine and Associate Editor, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. She serves as the Chair of the Ethnogeriatrics Committee of the American Geriatrics Society, the Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Hospice & Palliative Medicine SEP Committee, Board member of the Council of faculty and Societies, founding Chair , Diversity Committee of the American Association of Medical Colleges. Her work has been and is funded by grants from NIH, HRSA, foundations as well as the Department of Veterans Affairs.

A nationally recognized leader in geriatrics and palliative care, Periyakoil founded and directs Stanford eCampus (http://ecampus.stanford.edu), the Ethno-geriatrics & the Successful Aging Project (http://geriatrics.stanford.edu ), and Stanford Palliative Care (http://palliative.stanford.edu).

She has won many research awards including an young investigator award by the American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, a plenary research paper award by the American Geriatrics Society (2014), Ethnogeriatrics Research poster award (2015) and a research award by the American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2015) and an Innovator award from the American Medical Association (2015)

In the clinical realm, she serves as the Associate Director of Palliative Care Services at the VA Palo Alto Health Care Center. Her research focuses on wellbeing of multi-cultural persons in the context of geriatrics, ethno-geriatrics and hospice, palliative care & end-of-life care. She has presented in numerous national meetings including the plenary of the American Geriatrics Society and the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization annual meetings as well as the recent End-of-Life meeting of the Institute of Medicine.