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Center for Palliative and Supportive Care

Personalized, innovative, and expert

The UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care is a driving force in the field of palliative and supportive care, leading the way in competent and compassionate clinical care, collaborative research, community outreach and training.

Personalized care for the stress of serious illness.

We use a comprehensive approach by focusing on the whole patient; addressing the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual suffering of disease. Our interdisciplinary team is committed to supporting patients and their families through the stress of serious illness.

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Innovative answers to the challenges of providing serious illness care.

At the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care, our researchers focus on seeking out innovative answers for palliative Care problems. We are committed to supporting the clinical efforts of palliative care by studying all five domains.

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Expert clinicians training the next generation of Palliative Care team

In addition to our renowned Palliative Medicine Fellowship, our expert clinicians provide extraordinary learning opportunities for the entire healthcare team through time-tested programs such as the Clinical Training Academy and the Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ Program.

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Latest Headlines

  • UAB Arts in Medicine to host end-of-life care conversation with palliative care experts Sept. 12
    See the powerful documentary “The Last Ecstatic Days” at UAB's ALys Stephens Center and hear about the cultural and spiritual considerations of dying from UAB caregivers and Aditi Sethi, M.D., with The Center for Conscious Living & Dying, with guest artist Manjari Sharma.
  • UAB experts explain why advance care planning is important and how to get started
    Healthcare Decisions Day is April 16, and UAB experts are providing recommendations for how to get started with advance care planning.
  • First-ever Blazer Bridge Fund grant recipients announced
    The Blazer Bridge Fund is intended to identify and assist in the development of promising ideas, discoveries, innovations and/or technologies from UAB faculty and staff that have commercial potential. 

James Dionne-OdomAssistant Professor of Nursing
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