Special Interest Groups

These groups provide a forum for interested members to meet and discuss a field or topic of common interest. AAHPM SIGs are multidisciplinary, and each SIG meets at the AAHPM Annual Assembly. Currently, there are eleven Special Interest Groups. To receive more information about a SIG you may contact the Chairs listed below.

To join a SIG, login to the Members Only section of the web site and update your profile in the membership directory. 

If you are interested in forming a new Special Interest Group (SIG), click here for more details.

2008 SIG Chairs

Cancer
Jeffrey L. Spiess, MD
JSpiess@hospicewr.org

Program Chiefs
Eduardo Bruera
ebruera@mdanderson.org

Ethics
George Davis
gqdav@yahoo.com

Fellowship Directors Forum
Laurie Lyckholm
lyckholm@vcu.edu

Heart Failure
Sarah Goodlin
sarah.goodlin@ihc.com

Humanities
Christina Puchalski
hcsnaf@gwumc.edu

Alan Rozen
arozen@joliethospice.org

Long Term Care
William Smucker, MD CMD
smuckerw@summa-health.org 

Osteopathic Medicine 
Jimmie Leleszi
jleleszi@med.wayne.edu

Pediatrics
Jeanne Lewandowski
jeanne.lewandowski@beaumont.edu

Professionals in Training
Giovanni Elia, MD
gelia@sdhospice.org

Rural

• Central Time Zone
  Jason Hughes, MD FAAFP FACEP
  hughestex@juno.com
• Eastern Time Zone 
  Michael E. Frederich, MD FAAHPM 
  mfrederich@hospiceotp.org
• Mountain Time Zone
  Kathryn Borgenicht, MD
  roborg4@aol.com
• Pacific Time Zone
  Michael Knower, MD
  dr_moses@qwest.net