Reflection Park is delighted to offer an interactive discussion with Dr. Shahid Aziz about the importance of engaging in end-of-life discussions. He will share his personal and professional experience as well as offer strategies for how to broach these difficult and necessary conversations with family and close friends. 

Dr. Aziz, who is board-certified in pediatrics, medical management, and hospice and palliative medicine, has talked to patients and their caregivers about end-of-life decisions over a thousand times in the last twenty years. After graduating from King Edward Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, he trained in pediatrics at the University of Maryland, Saint Agnes, and Mercy hospitals. He has been on the clinical faculty of the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins, along with multiple local hospitals in the Baltimore metropolitan area. He served as Assistant Chair of Pediatrics at Saint Agnes Hospital, then Chair of Pediatrics and the Ethics Committee, as well as the VPMA at MedStar Harbor Hospital, all in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Aziz was instrumental in helping start the pediatric hospice services at Hospice of Chesapeake in Maryland and the Palliative Care Program at Laurel Regional Hospital in Maryland. He continues to chair multiple ethics committees, as well as serve on hospice/palliative care teams at local hospitals and at Montgomery Hospice in Rockville, Maryland, helping take care of children and adults. He is also actively involved in the education of the public and medical personnel.

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