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Margaret Tempero

Margaret Tempero was honored with a Luminary Award in GI Cancers

Margaret TemperoMargaret Tempero received a Luminary Award in GI Cancers from Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Leah Rebecca Brie

Drs. Rorvig, Sudore, and Williams Develop Refresher Guidance on ACP Resources for Incarcerated Patients and Clinicians

In response to a number of distressing calls from community hospitals about confusion over the rights of incarcerated patients to make their own medical decisions and to appoint surrogate decision makers, Leah Rorvig MD, MS, Rebecca Sudore, MD and Brie Williams MD, MS developed refresher guidance on Advance Care Planning resources for incarcerated patients and clinicians.  For more information download the pdf here.