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Cardiology Grand Rounds - Lorrel Toft, MD
This is a virtual meeting
Presentation: Emotional Preparation to Perform CPR: A New Era in Lay Rescuer CPR Training
Lorrel Brown Toft, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and is a practicing clinical cardiologist at Carson-Tahoe Medical Center. Dr. Toft is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a BS in Biology (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2007 (Alpha Omega Alpha). She completed her internal medicine residency training at Johns Hopkins in 2010 and was selected to serve as Assistant Chief of Service/chief resident. She then completed her cardiology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins and joined the faculty at the University of Louisville in 2014.
Congratulations to Dr. Sudore and PREPARE Team on Gift
Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Sudore and the PREPARE Team on a newly-awarded $28,000 gift from The Y.C. Ho/Helen & Michael Chiang Foundation to update of the PREPARE For Your Care Advance Care Planning Toolkit and Pamphlet to support Clinicians, Social workers, and Case Managers in Initiating ACP Conversations with English-, Spanish-, and Chinese-speaking Older Adults. This funding will allow PREPARE to create culturally adapted Spanish and Chinese versions of the PREPARE ACP Toolkit and Pamphlet and share these free resources with health systems, community organizations, and communities across the US. In the future work over subsequent years, PREPARE will also track the usage and downloads data from the PREPARE website to help inform and guide their research with a greater impact!