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The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies
LIVING THE BEST LIFE POSSIBLE:  
Doctor and Patient Conversations About Serious Illness and Mortality
Presented in Collaboration with PRI'S The World and WGBH

TODAY, Tuesday, March 17, 2015
12:30-1:30pm ET
Watch at ForumHSPH.org


Many Americans may confront illnesses so serious that they are life threatening. These diagnoses may come with treatment attempts and hospital stays. What they may not include are honest and open conversations about the final stages of life. How might the patient want to live during these stages? What choices are most likely to bring a sense of peace and empowerment? How might family members be included in these discussions? A growing palliative care movement is encompassing these questions, bringing together doctors, patients and their families in a new and compassionate way. This Forum event will examine this movement, taking a look at the Serious Illness Care Program system developed at Ariadne Labs, as well as the upcoming launch of a national collaborative to test the use of this program in multiple healthcare systems in the U.S. This event also will review issues within healthcare systems, including utilization of end-of-life services and the debate around the role of payment for value.

E-mail questions for the expert participants any time before or during the live webcast to theforum@hsph.harvard.edu.

Or Tweet them to @ForumHSPH using #docpatientconvos.

We'll also be conducting a live chat on The Forum's Living the Best Life Possible web page.

EXPERT PARTICIPANTS
Atul Gawande, Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, Professor in both the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and author of Being Mortal

Susan Block, Director of the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs, and Founding Chair, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital

Haiden Huskamp, PhD, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

MODERATOR
Carol Hills, Senior Producer and Reporter, PRI's The World
About the Series

Through in-person events paired with state-of-the-art interactive webcasting, The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health brings together the best-informed and most influential scientists, policymakers, and practitioners to address worldwide health problems that require immediate decisions and practical solutions.