UAMS Sponsors ‘That Good Night: On Dignity, Suffering & the Role of Medicine in Life’s Eleventh Hour’ on Sept. 14

By Yavonda Chase

Sunita Puri, M.D.

Sunita Puri, M.D.

The lecture will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., in downtown Little Rock. The event is open to the public. Tickets are $10 and are available at give.uams.edu/puri.

“We are delighted that Dr. Puri is able to join us,” said Sarah Harrington, M.D., a palliative care physician in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. “When facing a serious illness, so often patients and families are overwhelmed with decisions.  Palliative care aims to meet patients where they are, assist with goals of care, and to help create a plan of care that matches those goals.  Events like this are so important so we can educate the public about advance care planning and end-of-life care.”

Puri is the director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center and the School of Medicine, where she is an associate professor of clinical medicine. Previously, she was medical director of the palliative medicine service at Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California.

The event is sponsored by the UAMS Division of Palliative Medicine and is funded by a grant from the Dorothy Snider Foundation.

UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,275 students, 890 medical residents and fellows, and five dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 12,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.

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