Empower your voice: Navigating conversations with your ALS care team

About the Program: Join us for our August ALS Learning Series on advocating for yourself and effectively communicating with your ALS health team, presented by Dr. Ambereen Mehta and Dr. Suzana Makowski, two leading palliative care ALS experts. This session will provide people living with ALS, their families, and care partners with practical strategies to ensure their voices are heard and their needs are met, fostering a collaborative approach to care.

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 Speakers:

Ambereen Mehta, MD, MPH, FAAHPM, is an Associate Professor of Palliative Care in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She graduated from the Internal Medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. She is currently part of the palliative care faculty at Johns Hopkins and developed the palliative care program in the Johns Hopkins Center for Specialty ALS Care.

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.