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Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH, on Effective Care Integration and the Comanagement Model

2015 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium

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Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH, of Massachusetts General Hospital, summarizes her keynote lecture (plenary talk).



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