Innovations in Palliative Care

Constance Dahlin has extensive administrative, clinical, and academic experience in hospice and palliative care across the health continuum. Currently, Ms. Dahlin is a consultant to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) in community-based care and education. She is director of the Palliative Care APP Externship and a palliative nurse practitioner at Salem Hospital and adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland Graduate Program in Palliative Care and the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She serves on the AHA Circle of Life Committee and the Mass Serious Illness Coalition Nursing Taskforce. Ms. Dahlin served as author for the Palliative Nursing: Scope and Standards, Hospice and Palliative APRN Professional Practice Guide and A Primer of Reimbursement, Billing, and Coding: Essential Information for the Hospice and Palliative Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. She is coeditor of the Oxford University Press Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing and the Pocket Guide and edited the second and third editions of the National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care. She served on Measurement Applications Partnership PAC/LTC Workgroup, Measurement Applications Partnership Clinician Workgroup, and co-chaired the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Control and Prevention Network Palliative Care Workgroup.

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Dr. Ali Valimahomed is a double board certified Interventional Pain Medicine physician. He provides comprehensive care for a wide variety of painful conditions of the spine, nerves, joints, and muscles by integrating physical therapy, medications, and interventional procedures. The various minimally invasive treatments offered by Dr. Valimahomed include fluoroscopic-guided spine injections, ultrasound-guided musculoskeletal injections, peripheral nerve blocks, venous ablation, regenerative medicine, intrathecal therapy, and spinal cord stimulation. Dr. Valimahomed has a particular interest in cancer pain as well as the emerging fields of neuromodulation and regenerative medicine. His goal is to provide targeted individualized treatment plans for his patients, with a focus on functional outcomes and quality of life.

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Pain Management, Palliative Care, Hospice, Addictions. Expert Witness: Nursing Care, Advanced Practice, Continuing Education for Advanced Practice Nurses. Author: Pharmacology Drug Guide (9 editions), articles on Independent Practice set-up and Management, Opioid Prescribing, HIV/AIDS