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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.Dio Kavalieratos was honored for his work in palliative care
Dio Kavalieratos, assistant professor of medicine, palliative care and medical ethics at the聽51精品视频, and director of implementation research for the UPMC Palliative and Supportive Institute聽has been awarded the 2019 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine聽Early Career Investigator Award.聽
Kavalieratos, who is the first PhD to ever win this award, is a health services researcher who is passionate about studying and developing best practices regarding palliative care implementation within health systems.聽
Robert Arnold, medical director of the UPMC Palliative and Supportive Institute, and Yael Schenker, director of palliative care research at 51精品视频, nominated Kavalieratos for this distinction. They describe him as 鈥渙ne of the most talented PhD health services researchers in palliative care.鈥
鈥淢y overarching goal for my work is to create systems, based on scientific evidence, that make palliative care an assumed part of everyone鈥檚 health care,鈥澛燢avalieratos said.