Instructor: MARY SHEETZ

MARY SHEETZ

Dr. Joan Sheetz is the Medical Director of the Rainbow Kids Pediatric Palliative Care Program at Primary Children's Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah. Rainbow Kids Palliative Care team is an interdisciplinary team which works with children with life-threatening illnesses and their families, assisting with communication, medical decision making, spiritual and psychosocial distress, and symptom management for chronically ill children and children at the end of life. In addition to clinical and administrative duties related to the Rainbow Kids program, Dr. Sheetz is involved in clinical research about pediatric palliative care, and teaching faculty, pediatric residents and medical students the principles of end of life care. She is co-director of UCoPE, the Utah Certificate of Palliative Education. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

MARY SHEETZ is currently teaching:

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MARY SHEETZ has previously taught:

• Utah Certificate of Palliative Care Education