Dr. Zara Cooper: Surgical Palliative Care Researcher

The Surgical Palliative Care Podcast

#004 - Join host Dr. Red Hoffman and co-host Dr. Mackenzie Cook as they interview Dr. Zara Cooper, associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, Kessler Director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a prolific researcher in the field of surgical palliative care. Zara shares how she first became interested in the field of surgical palliative care, the importance of maintaining curiosity when talking to both patients and fellow surgeons, and the need to make certain that future research in palliative care helps to drive policy change. Zara manages to be incredibly smart, remarkably insightful and refreshingly approachable all at the same time, which makes for a great interview!
Learn more about the Center for Surgery and Public Health here.
Zara's articles discussed in this episode:
Resident education and management of end-of-life care: the resident's perspective
Racial variation in the use of life-sustaining treatments among patients who die after major elective surgery
End-of-life care intensity for physicians, lawyers, and the general public
Recent New York Times articles on dying at home:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/health/death-hospitals-home.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/well/live/is-dying-at-home-overrated.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06/opinion/sunday/hospice-good-death.html

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