On September 14, 2021, Dr. Mi-Kyung Song presented “Addressing One of the Most Enduring Challenges in Health Care: End-of-Life Decision Making.” Video from the event is now available.
About the Speaker
Mi-Kyung Song, PhD, RN, FAAN is a Professor, Edith F. Honeycutt Chair in Nursing, and Director of the Center for Nursing Excellence in Palliative Care at Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Song’s research is focused on palliative and end-of-life care, including advance care planning, treatment decision-making, family caregiving, symptoms, and family’s post-bereavement outcomes. With intensive training in theory-guided intervention development and testing, clinical trials, and biostatistics, she has led numerous NIH-funded intervention trials to improve end-of-life decision making and family’s post-bereavement outcomes across various patient populations, including targeted research in African American populations in multiple U.S. states.
About the Event
The NINR Director’s Lecture Series brings top scientists from across the nation who are advancing nursing science in significant ways to share their work and interests with a trans-disciplinary audience at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the broader biomedical research community.