CHI Seminar - Myrna Katalina Serna, MD, MPH

Center for Health-System Improvement (CHI) "Works-in-Progress Seminar"

Tuesday January 30, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Hybrid Attendance: 4.108 JSA Conference Room or Zoom
Presenter: Dr. Myrna Katalina Serna, MD, MPH

“Understanding End-of-Life Trajectories and Optimizing Serious Illness Conversations in Hospitalized Hispanic Patients”

Abstract: Dr. Serna will be presenting specific aims for an NIA K23 proposal entitled "Understanding End-of-Life Trajectories and Optimizing Serious Illness Conversations in Hospitalized Hispanic Patients." Her proposal highlights existing disparities in end-of-life communication and outcomes and seeks to develop pragmatic tools including a modified Ariadne Labs' Serious Illness Conversation guide to help providers better communicate with and assess palliative care outcomes in Hispanic patients. This K23 proposal will be submitted in June 2024.

Bio: Myrna Katalina Serna is an Assistant Professor and hospitalist investigator in the Division of General Medicine . She completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in 2016 followed by Internal Medicine residency and a chief year at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in 2020. Dr. Serna went on to complete the Harvard-Brigham Research Fellowship in Hospital Medicine and earn a master’s in public health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2022. Her research is focused on advance care planning and better understanding and optimizing end-of-life care in the inpatient setting.