Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care

Claudia Delgado-Corcoran, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and works in the Divisions of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Palliative Care at Primary Children´s Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT. She is originally from Bogota, Colombia, where she attended medical school. She received her Master of Public Health from the University of South Carolina. She completed Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Florida and did a year-long training in Cardiac Intensive Care at Arkansas Children's Hospital. She has been working in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Primary Children's since 2009 and completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative care medicine in 2020 at the University of Utah. She is board-certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine. Her research work focuses on increasing the involvement of palliative care in children with heart disease. She also champions grieving sessions after the death of every child in the Pediatric and Cardiac ICUs at Primary Children's Hospital.

Ryann Bierer, MD is an Assistant Professor in Neonatology and Pediatric Palliative Care at the University of Utah and Primary Children's Hospital. She provides neonatology services in neonatal intensive care units at the University of Utah Hospital, Primary Children's Hospital, and Intermountain Medical Center. She also completed a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the University of Utah and provides pediatric palliative care at Primary Children's Hospital.

Lauren Cramer Finnerty, MSW, LICSW is a clinical social worker specializing in pediatric palliative care with the Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT) at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She recently began developing her new role as the dedicated ambulatory pediatric palliative care social worker for PACT. She holds undergraduate degrees in Social Work and Psychology from Providence College. She completed the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship after earning her Master of Social Work with a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Childhood and Adolescent Trauma from Rhode Island College.

Katie Gradick, MD, MHS received her undergraduate degree in Applied Social Ethics from Harvard College, her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin, and Master of Health Science from Johns Hopkins. She completed her internship at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and her Pediatrics residency and Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the University of Utah, where she is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Palliative Care. She serves as the University of Utah Site Director for the Global Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship in collaboration with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Unidad Nacional de Oncología Pediátrica in Guatemala.

Brandy Harman, BA has worked for the University of Utah Department of Pediatrics since 2010. She is an administrator in the Office of the Department Chair and spends much of her time coaching faculty on writing and editing their manuscripts. She is interested in equitable access and treatment in healthcare and mental health support for professional and family caregivers.

Mark Harousseau, MD received his medical degree from New York Medical College. He then completed residency in Pediatrics at the University of Utah and served a fourth year as chief resident. He completed his fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the University of Utah and continued on as faculty in the Divisions of Pediatric Palliative Care and Pediatric Hospital Medicine. His clinical interests include palliative education i

1. Introduction and Definitions.- 2. Pediatric Palliative Care Involvement in Specific Populations.- 3. Pediatric Palliative Care at End of Life.- 4. Accessing Pediatric Palliative Care.- 5. The Future of Pediatric Palliative Care.- .