MD, Johns Hopkins University
Residency, Stanford University
Fellowship, Northwestern University
The intersection of palliative care and emergency medicine, upstream access to palliative care, telemedicine
Experienced in program development, research, palliative care, and emergency medicine, Carter Neugarten, MD, focuses on providing upstream access to palliative care services while patients are in the Emergency Department. He has created a program to embed palliative care clinicians into the ED at Rush, and leads an ACEP committee that is helping other top institutions across the country to create similar programs of their own. He is researching the impact of these initiatives, hoping to build on previous research in the field to demonstrate increased quality of goal-concordant care coupled with lower and more appropriate healthcare resource utilization.
Since joining Rush’s faculty in September 2019, Neugarten secured a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant subcontract entitled “Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access” (EMPallA) that studies the referral of patients being discharged from the ED to outpatient palliative care. Its purpose is to compare telemedicine to traditional outpatient care, and to study the quality of life of patients and caregivers receiving these two types of outpatient care.