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Steiner's Resilience

April 18, 2022 • UW Heart Institute / Dr. Jill Steiner • Season 1 • Episode 9

Dr. Jill Steiner, an Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) cardiologist at UW Medicine, sits down this week to talk about what palliative care really means, understanding and supporting resilience for a unique patient population, and how she has created resiliency for herself.

Timestamps:
0:30 - Career at a glance
2:40 - All things ACHD
3:54 - Palliative Care and ACHD
4:36 - "I just think it's cool."
6:00 - Impact of palliative care in ACHD patients
8:49 - Palliative care research
11:00 - What is Resilience
16:00 - Multi-morbidity and Frailty
20:32 - Transitions from pediatrics to adult
25:10 - An ACHD's cardiologist special sauce
34:47 - ACC Cardiology Palliative Care Working Group and CMEs
38:47 - Tools for tough conversations
40:50 - Supporting yourself after
45:43 - "Life is not worth surviving, it's worth living"

You may find resources mentioned in the episode below:

Palliative Care Work Group: https://www.acc.org/Membership/Sections-and-Councils/Geriatric-Cardiology-Section/Get-Involved/Pallitive-Care-Work-Group
Dr. Steiner's Bio: https://www.uwmedicine.org/bios/jill-steiner
Dr. Steiner's Twitter: https://twitter.com/steiner_md
Dr. Steiner's email: jills8@uw.edu

People on this episode

Jim Kirkpatrick, MD

Co-host

John Michael Maier

Co-host