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Presentation Title: The Development and Implementation of Transitional and Palliative Care Porgram at Chinese Hospital, San Francisco
Dr. Quock and Ms. Cmiel will show how an understanding of Chinese cultural factors relevant to POLST orders enabled the introduction of a culturally sensitive palliative care program.
Time: Sunday Morning
Purpose:
To improve on clinical competence and performance in the delivery of palliative care through culturally sensitive education of patients andf their personal caregivers in the Chinese community
Objectives:
- Examine the development of a palliative care program to reduce re-admissions in a culturally sensitivemanner in Chinese Hospital, San Francisco
- Incorporate cultural sensitivity that is applicable to patient care inpalliative care program
- Demonstrate the effects of a culturally sensitive palliative care program such as patient outcomes
Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus, UCSF School of Medicine, Physician Member, ARTCC and Palliative Care Committee, Chinese Hospital, San Francisco; Jefferson Award Recipient 2014
Bio:
Collin P Quock, MD, FACP, FACC, FAHA is now retired from seeing patients after 37 years of private practice in San Francisco’s Chinatown as an internist and the community’s first trained cardiologist and intensivist. He is the Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, and past Chief of Staff at Chinese Hospital. He was asked in 2009 to be the physician champion of a grant program at Chinese Hospital to reduce re-admissions. That evolved into programs for transitional care and then palliative care. He was the first scientific program chairman for this Conference when it was born in 1982 in San Francisco. Out of that grew the Federation of Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Medical Societies and the Asian American Pacific Islander Health Forum. He served on the founding boards of both organizations.
Dr. Quock was born at Chinese Hospital, grew up in Chinatown, and attended the University of San Francisco. He earned his MD degree at the University of California, School of Medicine in San Francisco. That was followed by medical residency on the Georgetown University Division of the District of Columbia General Hospital. He was next a cardiology fellow at Tufts-St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Boston and was then called to active duty as a Captain, US Air Force Medical Corps, serving at Hamilton Air Force Base in California during the Vietnam War. Upon discharge he took another cardiology fellowship at UCSF. In 1971 he started his private practice, determined to serve the Chinese community.
Since then Dr. Quock has also been an active volunteer in the American Heart Association. He worked passionately to transmit heart-healthy messages and practices in culturally sensitive manners to Chinese Community. His founding of the Chinese Community Cardiac Council became a model for other ethnic minorities in San Francisco and then spread into other urban areas in America. He was elected to the national board of directors and then chaired the Women and Minorities leadership Committee, earning the distinguished national Louis B. Russell Award for excellence in minority programming from the American Heart Association.
But to Dr. Quock his most important accomplishments have been his perfect marriage to his bride Betty, whom he met while training in D.C., the achievements of their five wonderful children, and the joy of hugging nine active, happy grandchildren! These, above all, he considers his best rewards in his life.