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Carter Neugarten, MD

Carter Neugarten, MD
Director of Palliative Emergency Care
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, RUSH Medical College
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Faculty Advisor
Education

MD, Johns Hopkins University
Residency, Stanford University
Fellowship, Northwestern University

Areas of Expertise

The intersection of palliative care and emergency medicine, upstream access to palliative care, telemedicine

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Biography

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.

Grants

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.

Invited Presentations
  • “Managing Patients on Opioid Analgesics.” Lecture at Rush Medical College (Mar 2021)
  • “A Pandemic of Death” Invited guest lecturer at Johns Hopkins (Jan 2021)
  • “Embedding Palliative Care in the Emergency Department” ACEP Committee Presentation (Jan 2021)
  • “Palliat-ED: Palliative Care in the Rush ED” Lecture to ED residents and staff (July 2020)
  • “Goals of Care Discussions During COVID-19: Talking About what Everyone is Finally Talking about.” Paid lecture for the Coleman Palliative Medicine Training Program, as well as part of a interdisciplinary palliative care training program, Professional Development in Communication and Supportive Care. (June 2020)
  • “Palliative Care in the COVID ICU” (May 2020)