Surviving and thriving through the Holidays with ALS

About the Program:

Join us for our December Learning Series with Dr. Suzana K.E. Makowski, medical director of Compassionate Care ALS.  Dr. Makowski will discuss spirituality and its role in ALS, along with where we can find light in the darkness and gratitude as we enter a new season and new year. The Les Turner ALS Foundation is proud to offer this webinar at no cost to the ALS community. Thank you to the Gilbert & Jacqueline Fern Foundation & Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma America for sponsoring this webinar.

About the Speaker: Suzana K. E. Makowski, MD

Suzana K. E. Makowski, MD:  is currently the medical director of Compassionate Care ALS, a non-profit group that supports patients and families living with ALS throughout the US.  She has worked as a palliative care physician in various academic and community settings: as Chief of Palliative Medicine at both Unity Hospital, Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, co-chief of Palliative Care at UMass Medical Center and Chan School of Medicine, where she still holds a voluntary Associate Professor of Medicine role, teaching and mentoring students, and as Hospice Medical Director at Hospice and Palliative Care of Cape Cod.  She has served on various committees, including on the Board of the New Hampshire Home Care and Hospice Association, End of Life Counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Quality Committee of AAHPM. She completed her fellowship in Palliative Care at San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care, and Integrative Medicine at University of Michigan, Internal Medicine residency at Baystate Medical Center, and medical school at University of Rochester.