British Medical Journal Columns
Selected Invited Talks
1997 “Barriers to Timely Patient Enrollment in Hospice Programs: The Role of Physician Prognostication,” and “Patient Survival After Enrollment in Hospice Programs,” Keynote Addresses, Annual Pennsylvania Hospice Network Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
1997 “Physician Prognostication and Hospice Referral,” American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
1997 “Barriers to Timely Patient Enrollment in Hospice Programs: The Role of Physician Prognostication,” Grand Rounds, University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, WI
1997 “Barriers to Timely Patient Enrollment in Hospice Programs: The Role of Physician Prognostication,” Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, Tampa, FL
1998 “Population-Based Studies of the Use and the Consequences of Hospice Terminal Care in Medicare Patients,” Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1998 “Some Thoughts on Physicians’ Beliefs About Self-Fulfilling Prophecy,” Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1998 “Making the Best Use of Hospice Terminal Care,” Grand Rounds, Columbia La Grange Memorial Hospice, La Grange, IL
1998 “Physician’s Attitudes and Practices with Respect to Prognostication,” and “The Extent and Determinants of Accuracy in Physicians’ Prognoses When Patients Are Referred to Hospice,” Keynote Addresses, Conference on the Art and Science of Prognosis, Las Cruces, New Mexico
1998 “The Extent and Determinants of Accuracy in Physicians’ Prognoses When Patients Are Referred to Hospice,” Roger C. Bone, M.D. Memorial Lecture on Palliative Care, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, IL
1998 “Health Services Research in Palliative Care in the United States,” Napp Keynote Address, Annual Palliative Care Congress of Great Britain and Ireland, Leeds, United Kingdom
1999 “Health Services Research in Palliative Care in the United States,” Sydney Institute of Palliative Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
1999 “Health Services Research in Palliative Care in the United States,” Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia
1999 “The Extent and Determinants of Accuracy in Physicians’ Prognoses When Patients are Referred to Hospice,” and “Patient Survival After Enrollment in Hospice,” Keynote Addresses, Minnesota Hospice Organization Conference, Bloomington, MN
1999 “Some Insights into Physician Anxiety,” Society and Medicine: Explorations of Their Moral and Spiritual Dimensions, A Festschrift Conference in Honor of Renée C. Fox, Philadelphia, PA
2000 “A Series of Projects on the Determinants of the Timing of Hospice Enrollment,” “An Introduction to Survey Methods for Health Services Research in Palliative Medicine,” and “An Introduction to Case/Control and Cohort Methods for Health Services Research in Palliative Medicine,” Workshop on The Care of Patients with Advanced and Progressive Disease: Research and Research Methodology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
2000 “Death Foretold: Some Aspects of Prognostication in Clinical End-of-Life Care,” Sydney Institute of Palliative Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
2000 “Death Foretold: Prognosis in Cancer Care,” Department of Epidemiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2000 “The Accuracy of Physicians’ Prognoses in Cancer Care,” Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2000 “The Extent and Determinants of Error in Doctors’ Prognoses for Terminally Ill Patients: A Prospective Study,” Grand Rounds, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia
2000 “Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care,” Western Australia Council for Palliative Care, Perth, Australia
2000 “Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care,” Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2000 “The Extent and Determinants of Error in Physicians’ Prognoses in Terminally Ill Patients,” Grand Rounds, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL
2000 “Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care,” Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2000 “Barriers to the Use of Hospice Care at the End of Life,” testimony before the United States Senate, Special Committee on Aging, Washington, DC
2000 “‘How Long Do I Have to Live?’ -- Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors,” Keynote Address, Midwest Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
2000 “‘How Long Do I Have to Live?’ -- Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors,” The Medical Center Hour, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2000 “The Transition to Hospice Care in Seriously Ill Elderly Patients,” Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2001 “Nice Help If You Can Get It: Inter-Spousal Support, Gender, Medicine, and Death,” Notestein Seminar, Population Research Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2001 “The Practical Predicament of Prognostication at the End of Life,” Plenary Keynote Address, 7th International Meeting of the European Association for Palliative Care, Palermo, Italy
2001 “Nice Help If You Can Get It: Inter-Spousal Support, Gender, Medicine, and Death” The Frances H. Schiltz Lecture, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, KS
2001 “‘How Long Do I Have to Live?’ -- Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors,” Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, MD
2002 “Nice Help if You Can Get It: Inter-Spousal Support, Gender, Medicine, and Death,” Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
2002 “‘How Long Do I Have to Live?’ -- Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors,” Grand Rounds, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
2002 “Some Comments on Inter-ethnic Variation in Schizophrenia and SuicideRates,” Jacobs Foundation Conference, Marbach Castle, Germany
2002 “Foreseeing and Foretelling a Good Death,” Public Lecture, King’s College, London, England
2003 “Death Foretold: Epidemiological and Sociological Studies of Whether and How Physicians Prognosticate,” McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2003 “‘How Long Do I Have to Live?’ -- Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors,” Grand Rounds, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
2003 “The Health of Migrants,” Conference on African Migration and Urbanization in Comparative Perspective, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004 “The Health Impact on Families of Health Care: A Matched Cohort Study of Hospice Use by Decedents and Mortality Outcomes in Surviving, Widowed Spouses,” Grand Rounds, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
2004 “‘How Long Do I Have to Live?’ -- Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors,” Magdalen College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2004 “Physicians’ Responses to Prognostic Error,” European Association of Palliative Care, Conference held in Milan, Italy
2004 “The Effect of Disabling Illness or Death in One Spouse on the Mortality of the Other,” NBER Conference on Disability in the U.S., Charleston, SC
2004 “‘Cascade’ Effects with Respect to Health and Health Care in Social Networks,” University of Maryland Population Research Center, College Park, MD
2004 “‘How Long Do I Have to Live?’ -- Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors,” Grand Rounds, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA
2004 “Hospice Care, The Widower Effect, and Social Networks at the End of Life,” National Advisory Council on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD
2004 “Health Externalities of Illness and Medical Care Near the End of Life,” The Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College, London, UK
2004 “Using CMS Data to Examine the Determinants and Outcomes of End-of-Life Care,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD
2004 “Inter-Spousal Mortality Effects: Caregiver Burden Across the Spectrum of Disabling Disease,” NBER Conference on Disability in the U.S., Jackson Hole, WY
2004 “Inter-Spousal Mortality Effects: Caregiver Burden Across the Spectrum of Disabling Disease,” Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2004 “Inter-Spousal Health Effects of Illness and Medical Care in the Elderly Near the End of Life,” New South Wales Society for Palliative Medicine and Sydney Institute of Palliative Medicine, Sydney, Australia
2004 “Health Impact of Health Care on Surviving Family of Cancer Patients,” Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA) Annual Meeting, Canberra, Australia
2004 “‘How Long Do I Have to Live?’ -- Why Prognostic Questions Trouble Doctors,” Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA) Annual Meeting, Canberra, Australia
2004 “Social Aspects of Dignity at the End of Life,” University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
2005 “Uncertainty and Dread Regarding Prognosis Among Physicians,” Luso-American Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 “The Health Impact of Health Care on Family Members of Seriously Ill Patients,” Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece
2005 “Staying Healthy for Your Partner’s Sake,” Keynote Address, Hellenic-American Medical Society and the Harvard Club of Greece, Athens, Greece
2005 “Health Externalities: How Illness and Health Care in One Spouse Affect the Survival of the Other,” RAND Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
2005 “Health Externalities: How Illness and Health Care in One Spouse Affect the Survival of the Other,” Duke University, Durham, NC
2005 “The Epidemiological Study of Intra-Familial Health Effects: Spousal Hospitalization and Partner Mortality,” University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2005 “Prognostication and Palliative Care,” Lisbon Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 “The Health Effects of End-of-Life Care on Spouses: Revisiting the Widower Effect and Caregiver Burden,” Lisbon Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 “The Science and Art of Prognosis Near the End of Life: Implications for Patients, Doctors, and Society,” Annual Opening Lecture of the Academic Year, Lisbon Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
2005 “Health Externalities: How Illness and Health Care in One Spouse Affect the Survival of the Other,” Davis Lecture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2006 “The Possible Effects of Pain and Pain Relief on Family Members,” University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
2006 “The Role of Prognosis in Clinical Care,” Zuckerman Lecture, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA
2006 “Inter-Personal Health Effects in Dyadic and Hyper-Dyadic Social Networks,” Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
2006 “How Illness and Health Care in One Spouse Affect the Survival of the Other,” Internationally Distinguished Speaker Series, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
2007 “The Epidemic Spread of Health Behavior in a Complex, Longitudinally Resolved Social Network,” Condensed Matter Seminar, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
2007 “The Epidemic Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years,” Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2007 “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network Over 32 Years,” Human Nutrition Research Center, Tufts University, Boston, MA
2007 “Inter-Personal Health Effects: The Spread of Health Behaviors in Social Networks,” Harvard Program on Asian and International Relations Annual Meeting, Beijing, China
2007 “Inter-Personal Health Effects and Social Inequality,” Harvard Program on Asian and International Relations Annual Meeting, Beijing, China
2007 “Media Coverage of ‘The Spread of Obesity,’” College of Communication, Boston University, Boston, MA
2007 “The Spread of Health Behaviors in Social Networks,” National Advisory Council on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD
2007 “The Spread of Obesity and Health Behaviors in a Complex, Longitudinally Resolved Social Network,” Plenary Address, International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2007), Boston, MA
2007 “The Spread of Health Phenomena Within Complex Social Networks,” Center for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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