Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah is a palliative care physician and medical oncologist in the Division of Cancer Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. She is uniquely qualified for this role, having completed training at MD Anderson, not only in medical oncology but also in Phase 1 drug development and Palliative Medicine. With all this training she sees patients in the palliative care clinic and also conducts clinical research that focuses on symptom management and patient centered supportive care that is driven by patient-reported outcomes (PROs) with an emphasis on older adult participation on clinical trials. She also works on developing palliative care initiatives and PROs on the national and international level.

You can find Dr. Subbiah on social media including twitter where she is very active. In this episode we discuss defining palliative care what interested Dr. Subbiah in palliative care the difference between palliative care and hospice care benefits of palliative care why palliative care is critical to cancer care breadth of palliative care team caregiver experience the future of palliative care

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