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Special Edition: Sound Medicine To Feature Palliative Care Authors, Experts

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[Update: The Nov. 9 program is now available under The Radio Hour.]

On Nov. 9, Sound Medicine will feature palliative care authors and experts: co-host Dr. Rich Frankel, a professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Director of the Walther Palliative Care Research and Education Program at the IU Simon Cancer Center; Gail Sheehy, author of “Passages in Caregiving: Turning Chaos Into Confidence”; Mark Nepo, a cancer survivor and New York Times best-selling author and poet; and Dr. Timothy Quill, the Director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Tune in Sunday at 2 p.m. on 90.1.  

The interviewees will also speak at the following events: 

  • IU Walther Program Palliative Care Symposium Nov. 17-18, at the IUPUI Campus Center, which is hosted by the Mary Margaret Walther Program in Palliative Care Research and Education. More information about the event
  • Spirit and Place event Nov. 16, from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Christian Theological Seminary Shelton Auditorium. More information about the event