The Annual Summer Summit is an event we always get excited about here at IDLM. It’s a great way to touch base with the community, especially for those of us who are not currently enrolled in any IDLM classes, and an opportunity for IDLM students, prospective students, and graduates alike to connect with one another and learn from fabulous guest experts. Best of all, it’s totally free!
This week on the blog we are highlighting an upcoming Summer Summit guest who puts the International in International Doula Life Movement. Dr. Cynthia Pan is a hospice and palliative care expert with decades of experience. From her website:
Dr. Pan is Harvard-trained and now a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Cornell. As a Chinese American doctor who was born in Taiwan, grew up in Latin America, traveled extensively in China and US, and now practices in Queens, New York, she brings a unique multicultural perspective to end-of-life care.
Dr. Pan is a medical education leader who teaches healthcare professionals and advocates for patient-centered care, with family inclusion. She combines medical expertise with compassion and humor to help patients and families navigate difficult situations.
Dr. Pan recognizes the value of humor, even when it comes to difficult conversations, and for that reson she has made her workbook, The Light-Hearted Guide to End of Life Conversations, available as a free download on her website. If you like that, you can also purchase her book, Exit Strategies: Living Lessons from Dying People.
We are so excited to have Dr. Pan as one of our Summer Summit speakers this year, to share with us some of what she has learned by working with terminal patients in many different parts of the world. And we are looking forward to seeing you there as well!
