Yale nursing Professor Shelli Feder will discuss palliative care in cardiovascular disease Nov. 13
Join the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing for the latest installment of the college’s Fall Distinguished Lecture series. Dr. Shelli Feder, faculty at the Yale University School of Nursing, will deliver the address: “Advancing Palliative Care in Cardiovascular Disease: Reducing Variation, Enhancing Delivery, and Improving Patient Outcomes.”
The lecture, scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 13 at 5 p.m., will be presented in-person at the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center, 350 Eddy St., Providence. A reception in the third-floor River Lounge will precede the lecture at 4 p.m., giving attendees the chance to meet with Feder and mingle with healthcare colleagues from around the state. The lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is requested here.
In addition to teaching nursing, Feder is the associate program director for the Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, and an investigator at the PRIME Center of Excellence in West Haven, VA. She has more than a decade of clinical experience as an advanced practice nurse in hospice, palliative care, and cardiovascular settings, and she has been practicing as a palliative care nurse practitioner since 2013.
An organizational health services researcher, Feder’s research interests include palliative and end-of-life care for people with non-cancer serious illness, health policy related to palliative and end-of-life care, medical informatics, and digital health interventions. Funded by such organizations as the National Institutes of Health, the Hartford Centers for Gerontological Nursing Excellence, the Palliative Care Research Cooperative, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, her research aims to create innovative models of care delivery that improve access to high-quality, timely palliative care for people with cardiopulmonary conditions.
The URI College of Nursing hosts its Distinguished Lecture Series each semester. Past lectures have been delivered by famed founder of the global health initiative, Partners in Health, Dr. Paul Farmer; former American Nurses Association President Ernest Grant; Director of the National Institute of Nursing Research Shannon Zenk; and Pennsylvania State University nursing Professor Susan Loeb, among others.