PALTC23 Conference Recordings SU03 General Session IV

Anne-Marie Filkin Lecture: From Physician to Caregiver to Care-Partner: COVID and Beyond
Speaker: Rebecca D. Elon, MD, MPH, CMD

This talk will utilize personal narrative as a springboard to review research on and literary examples of caregiving, including its universal and unique aspects. It will illustrate how clinical training can have both positive and negative aspects when the clinician becomes a family caregiver. The distinction between caregiving and care-partnering will be discussed through both the personal and professional lenses. The talk proposes that the best outcomes are most likely to occur when both clinicians and caregivers understand their roles as partners in care.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being a clinician when serving as a family caregiver
  • Evaluate their own roles as clinicians versus professional caregivers versus clinical care-partners
  • Enhance awareness of the positive aspects of family caregiving
  • Increase understanding of the challenges faced by family caregivers and how caregiver burden is lessened when clinicians serve as partners in care

Supported by nymda

Everything Will Be Alright

Speaker: Leonard Hock, DO, CMD

This presentation will renew the careforce’s passion and confidence in their jobs, facilities, and each other by recognizing their worth, role, and impact on their residences, colleagues, facility, and PALTC as a whole. Attendees will go home with a renewed commitment to and passion for their work, their residents, and their facility teams, knowing that someone sees them every day and knows that everything will be okay because they’re there. "I hope that my friends and colleagues will come away from this program having seen themselves in my words—the everyday things they do to touch lives and make a difference." ~ Dr. Leonard Hock

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Practice empathy, compassion and kindness with staff, residents and families
  • Recognize themselves as leaders and the impact their attitudes have on practice culture
  • Leverage their leadership role to overcome the stigma related to caring for older adults, be ambassadors for PALTC careforce, create a positive, calm, and proactive work culture that positively impacts PALTC patients and staff

Supported by foundation

Rebecca Elon, MD, MPH, CMD

Rebecca Elon, MD, MPH, CMD, serves as senior medical consultant and chief medical officer emeritus for FutureCare Health and Management, a privately held Maryland company managing 15 high medical acuity nursing facilities in Maryland. She is an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, currently serving on the voluntary part-time faculty, teaching Hopkins Geriatric Medicine Fellows about nursing facility medical care and medical direction. She is a board member on the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM). In 2007, she was recognized by the American Geriatrics Society as the Geriatrician of the Year. In 2016, she received a Hopkins Geriatrics Fellows Teaching Award. In 2018, she received the Berman Life Time Achievement Award from the MMDA – The Mid-Atlantic Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

Leonard Hock, DO, CMD

Leonard Hock, DO, CMD, is a Palliative consultant in Orlando. He had a special focus and interest in geriatrics and end of life care, with board certifications in internal medicine, and hospice/palliative care and has been a member of AMDA-The Society since l996 and was a Board of Directors from 2008-2010. He has been active in the organization at both local and national levels. Dr. Hock’s interest in hospice/palliative care resulted in development a palliative case management model for acute care hospitals. During his medical career in Kansas City, Dr. Hock was the health care reporter for the FOX 4 Television News where he was seen daily on “House calls” by thousands of viewers who watched him speak on current and pertinent health topics. Dr. Hock served his country in VietNam as an Army medic. He attended the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating in 1976. He completed his internship in Dallas, TX, and his internal medicine residency in Kansas City. In June of 2009, Dr. Hock was elected a Master Fellow in the Gillum Society of Master Fellows. This membership is the highest honor awarded by the American College of Osteopathic Internists for outstanding contribution and service in his profession. Dr. Hock’s energy and interest is in medical direction and the improvement in patient care through active physician leadership.

  • 1.5 CME
  • 1.5 CMD Management 


Release Date: 03/29/2023   |   Expiration: 03/01/2026

Credit Statements:

Accreditation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

CME Designation: Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CMD Credit Hours: This CME activity has been pre-approved by the American Board of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (ABPLM) for up to 1.5 management hour(s) toward certification or recertification as a Certified Medical Director (CMD) in post-acute and long-term care medicine. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit actually spent on the activity.

The CMD Program is administered by the ABPLM. For further information, contact ABPLM at 410-992-3117 or at cmd@paltmed.org.

Financial Disclosure Statement:

The Association requires the disclosure of all speaker/faculty/planner’s relevant financial relationships; presence of off-label use of a device or medication; and discussion of any experimental, new or evolving topic prior to each accredited education activity.

If the learner perceives any bias toward a commercial product or service, advocation of unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or recommendation, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients please report this to the Society’s staff.


The following speaker(s) disclosed relevant financial relationship(s): 

  • Julie Gammack, MD, CMD (Planner & Speaker): Stockholder: Amarin
  • Kenya Rivas Velasquez, MD, CMD, FAAFP (Planner & Speaker): OptumRx: Stockholder
  • All other planners, speakers, and AMDA staff have no relationships with ineligible companies.

All relevant financial relationships have been identified and mitigated.

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