This Round Table will be your opportunity to have questions answered by experienced medical professionals who are working every day in positions where they are informing patients of their options if they contract Covid.

Speakers:

Dr. Daniel A Sweeney, who runs the ICU Dept. at UCSD, Hillcrest

Dr. Stephanie Loe, who spent two weeks in late April to May in the ICU at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and another two weeks in May in the ICU at North Central Bronx Hospital

Dana Lustbader, MD is Chief of the Department of Palliative Care for OPTUM’s ProHEALTH, a large multispecialty provider group serving 1.5 million people in the New York metropolitan area. She developed patient and family centered high value healthcare models in the home and via telemedicine through her roles as Senior Medical Advisor for Aspire Health and as the founder and CMO of OPTUM Supportive Care. Prior to this, Dr. Lustbader worked as a critical care physician at Northwell Health where she served as the ICU Director, Founder & Section Head of Palliative Medicine and Program Director for the Palliative Medicine Fellowship. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she returned to work as an intensivist in the overwhelmed New York City hospitals. She is a Professor of Medicine at Northwell Hofstra School of Medicine. Dr. Lustbader is a faculty member for the Center to Advance Palliative Care and an elected board member for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine, completed Internal Medicine training at New York University Medical Center and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Dr. Lustbader is triple board certified in Palliative Care, Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.

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