During the COVID-19 pandemic, pulmonary support and palliative care have become critical healthcare needs.

Dr. Kathleen Lindell, is well-versed in these issues. An associate professor in the College of Nursing, and the Mary Swain Endowed Chair in Palliative Care, Dr. Lindell has extensive clinical experience working to improve support available to patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF. She's a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing where she received her Bachelor's and Master's of Science in Nursing as well as her PhD.

Dr. Lindell's passion for her patients and their caregivers has led to the development of a palliative care intervention entitled, A Program of SUPPORT, which is symptom management, understanding the disease, pulmonary rehabilitation, palliative care, oxygen therapy, research participation, and transplantation.