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Nicki Rao, MD

Speaking

Talks for clinicians, students, and communities

I've built palliative care services from the ground up in a rural health system and a large urban one, and I teach the parts that don't fit neatly into a lecture - how to say the hard thing, how to sit in the silence after it, and how to keep doing this work without burning out.

Upcoming

  • More than Hospice: The Expanding Role of Palliative Care in Modern Healthcare

    CME

    Vituity CME Provider Conference · Nashville, TN

Past engagements

  • Family medicine and palliative care: what these careers actually look like (opens in a new tab)

    Lecture

    medSTEM high school student program · Virtual

    A live session introducing high school students to family medicine and palliative care as career paths.

  • An informative session of palliative & hospice care

    Panel

    SD Nari · San Diego, CA

  • Matters of the state: cultural, ethical, and judicial barriers to patient-centered palliative care in an Amish patient with Trisomy 21

    Poster

    Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians CONNECT Conference · Lancaster, PA

  • From Cancer Pain to Comfort Care: Understanding the role of your Hospice & Palliative Medicine colleagues

    Talk

    Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians Annual SEA-M-E Conference · Dewey Beach, DE

  • Ethics in critical care medicine

    CME

    Fundamentals of Critical Care Course, Geisinger Lewistown CME · Lewistown, PA

  • End-of-life care for cirrhotic patients

    CME

    Geisinger Gastroenterology Nurse Practitioner CME Series · Lewistown, PA

  • Living well, post-cancer, mid-pandemic

    Talk

    PINK Zone Virtual Conference · Virtual

  • Practical Geri-Pal: communication skills

    Lecture

    UCLA medical students · Los Angeles, CA

  • Comparing the effectiveness of strategies for delivering home-based palliative care

    Talk

    Palliative Care National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Education and Research, CSU San Marcos · San Marcos, CA

  • Palliative care in the ICU: are we doing it right?

    Talk

    Pennsylvania Palliative & Hospice Network Annual Conference · Pennsylvania

  • Book club facilitator: When Breath Becomes Air

    Workshop

    AAHPM Annual Assembly

  • Compassion fatigue and falls prevention

    Lecture series

    Centre County Adult Caregivers for Aging Parents · Centre County, PA

Conversations and media

Podcasts, Instagram Lives, and television and radio segments.