Christina M. Puchalski Elected to AAHPM Board of Directors

Dr. Christina Puchalski posing for a portrait

Christina M. Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, founder and director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was elected to a director-at-large position on the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board of Directors.

The organization is dedicated to expanding access of patients and families to high quality palliative care, and advancing the discipline of hospice and palliative medicine, through professional education and training, development of a specialist workforce, support for clinical practice standards, research and public policy.

Puchalski officially begins her three year term in March of 2014. 

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