Overview: We will discuss and learn together the concept of journaling in hospice and palliative care, what the potential benefits and harms are, how to do it, when to do it, and what to do with it (the writing).  Then we will share our examples and your examples (bring them on your brain and on paper) and answer questions to wind up the session.  It should be lively and healing.

Speaker:  Clay Anderson, MD-Clay M. Anderson, MD, FACP, FAAHPM was born and raised in St. Louis County, MO and received his BS in biochemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1986.  He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1991 and then completed Internal Medicine training in 1994 at the University of Colorado in Denver and Medical Oncology training in1997 at U. T. – M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.  He returned to the University of Missouri – Columbia to join the School of Medicine Faculty in 1997 and worked in clinical care, education, and clinical research, eventually as an associate professor, from 1997 to 2010.  He received training and certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine while at MU, began as a part time hospice medical director, and then initiated the Missouri Palliative Care Program, an academic palliative care program, clinic, and consultation service, in 2006.  He came to NorthCare Hospice in North Kansas City, MO and moved with his family to Liberty, MO in 2010.  Clay served as senior medical director at NorthCare and staff palliative care physician at North Kansas City Hospital until 2016.  He then led St. Luke’s Health System — KC, Palliative Care Services as medical director from 2016-2019.  He practiced home-based primary care and helped lead a national palliative care initiative at Visiting Physicians Association – KC from 2019 to 2020. He worked with CVS/Aetna Kansas Better Health Managed Medicaid as medical director in Long Term Services and Support from 2021 to 2023. He and his wife moved their empty nest back to St. Louis in 2023 in South City and near to both their families.  He joined the Missouri Baptist palliative care team and the BJC/WashU System in January 2024 to resume his palliative care and hospice journey. He is a fellow in the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.  He spends time outside of work at home with reading, cooking, and yard work, and away from home fly fishing, birdwatching, duck hunting, coaching or watching wrestling, playing tennis, and enjoying fine dining and wine tasting.

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