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It is no exaggeration to say that Jennifer Temel, MD, has helped change how cancer care is practiced.\n\nThrough her research, she has shown that integrating palliative care and oncology care from the time of cancer diagnosis improves patient outcomes. This early integrated care model is now the standard of care in the United States and many other countries.\n\nNow, however, because it\u2019s the standard of care, demand for early palliative care is so great that the palliative care workforce is unable to meet every patient\u2019s needs.\n\nSo Dr. Temel is now working to use novel healthcare technologies\u2014such as telehealth and mobile apps\u2014to deliver patient-centered palliative care to cancer patients and their families everywhere.\n\nJennifer Temel, MD, is an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor. She is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Cancer Outcomes Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.\n\n2:17 \u2013 On what motivated her to become an oncologist \n\n3:20 \u2013 What is palliative care? How can palliative care differ from the care provided by an oncology clinician?\n\n4:48 \u2013 On the importance of early palliative care for patients with serious cancers\n\n7:06 \u2013 On her seminal research findings showing that integrating palliative care with oncology care leads to better outcomes\n\n8:32 \u2013 How cancer caregivers are impacted by palliative care\n\n10:21 \u2013 On how palliative care is typically offered, drawbacks to the current delivery system, and communicating well with patients and their families\n\n16:30 \u2013 On being named an ACS Clinical Research Professor \n\n17:40 \u2013 On the goals of her ACS-funded work: using healthcare technology to better support and inform cancer patients\u2026\n\n21:25 \u2013 \u2026and the three technologies she\u2019s focused on\n\n28:35 \u2013 How the pandemic has impacted the need to be innovative in how palliative care is provided\n\n32:49 \u2013 How ACS and the cancer community at large can help scale her findings\n\n35:46 \u2013 A message she\u2019d like to share with cancer patients and caregivers