BHS Physician and Director of Palliative Care, Kathy Selvaggi MS MD FAAHPM
was recently invited to be the Keynote Speaker for the Driskill Lecture
in Palliative Care at the Penn State College of Medicine. The Driskill
Lectureship was established in 1990 to enable experts in the field of
palliative care to present an annual lecture at the Penn State Hershey
College of Medicine. Previous speakers have included Drs. Derek Doyle,
Dame Cicely Saunders, Catherine Foley, Balfour Mount, Diane Meier and
James Tulsky. Dr. Selvaggi’s lecture entitled “We Are Building
It…and They are Coming” was a presentation on the development
of a community palliative care program for the Butler Health System.
For more information on BHS’ palliative care program,
click here.