Join us on Wednesday, March 5th from noon – 1 p.m. for a Virtual Lunch and Learn, featuring Kelley F. Newcomer, MD, FAAHPM, VNA Medical Director of Adult and Pediatric Hospice, VNA Fellows Kate Raseman, MD and Andrea King, MD. You’ll hear from VNA Medical Director, Dr. Newcomer, about her work leading the Hospice and Palliative Care Fellows program at VNA. These vital, immersive training programs provide fellows with experience working with physicians, nurses, and the interdisciplinary teams within the hospice (adult and pediatric) programs, and also make in-home patient visits. Fellows, Dr. Raseman and Dr. King, will share what they learned and how their experience will shape their future medical careers.
Register for the Zoom Webinar here.
About Kelley Newcomer, MD, FAAHPM
Dr. Newcomer earned her medical degree at UT Southwestern Medical School and completed a residency in internal medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in hospice and palliative medicine, she joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2016. Dr. Newcomer serves as the Hospice Rotation Organizer for UT Southwestern and the Clinical Epidemiology Coordinator and Lecturer for the UT Southwestern Palliative Care and Geriatric Fellowship. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, the Christian Medical and Dental Association, and the Dallas County Medical Society. She serves as the Medical Director of Adult and Pediatric Hospice for the Visiting Nurse Association of Texas. Dr. Newcomer was recently awarded the Josefina Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
About Kate Raseman, MD
Dr. Kate Raseman is a Fellow in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is a Dallas native who received her M.D. from UT Southwestern Medical School and completed residency in General Pediatrics at the University of Colorado. Prior to fellowship, she worked as a pediatric hospitalist at the University of Chicago, where she also completed a Clinical Ethics Fellowship at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Raseman is passionate about making hospitals more humanistic environments for all who spend time there: patients, families, trainees, and providers alike. This passion inspires her career in Hospice & Palliative Medicine, as well as her academic interests in the overlapping spaces of clinical ethics and serious illness communication.
About Andrea King, MD
Dr. Andrea King is a current Adult Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow at UTSW/Parkland in Dallas, TX. She gains her Hospice education through rotations with VNA and Dr. Newcomer. Her current research interests are telemedicine in Palliative Medicine and the use of AI to identify best Palliative Care referral timing in metastatic breast cancer with Megan Mullins, PhD. Prior to this fellowship Dr. King graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD in 2005 and University of New Mexico Medical School in Albuquerque, NM in 2010. She participated in research between her undergraduate and graduate education with the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health in Shiprock, NM on the Navajo Nation. After receiving her MD, she completed her General Surgery residency training at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, OH in 2015 followed by Trauma Surgery/Surgical Critical Care fellowship at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, OH in 2016. She is double board certified in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. She then proceeded to work as a Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Critical Care doctor in Vancouver, WA at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center.