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Making serious illness care more effective and heart-centered through education and mentorship of clinicians and caregivers
Helping physicians and clinicians provide integrative, heart-centered care for their seriously ill patients and themselves
Helping hospice and palliative care organizations expand their patient care toolbox, enhance team productivity, and improve employee wellbeing
Helping people with an ill or aging loved one provide the highest quality care without losing themselves
In my own practice, I discovered that medications alone weren't always enough. Despite using what I'd learned in med school, some patients still had pain, anxiety, depression, GI problems, insomnia, and tons of unrelieved stress. I found that when I added more evidence-supported, complementary treatment tools to my toolbox, my patients got better.
I taught some of my patients to meditate and use relaxation breathing. I sent others for acupuncture, massage, or myofascial treatments. I taught my patients positive psychology techniques and cognitive behavioral skills, and helped them integrate guided imagery and exercise into their lives.
As my patients practiced their wellbeing skills, I practiced mine too and I got as much benefit as they did!
This spurred my interest in evidence-supported integrative medicine and I spent more than a decade as Associate Director, and Director of Education, for the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Integrative Medicine. Combining my love for integrative medicine and palliative medicine, I then served as Division Chief of Integrative Palliative Medicine at a Baltimore community hospital.
I founded the Integrative Palliative Institute to teach and support physicians, clinicians, hospice and palliative medicine leaders, and caregivers who yearn for a more innovative, transformational and effective way to deliver care to people with serious illness or age-related decline.
As a palliative care physician, I personally experienced the fatigue and frustration that can come with caring so intensely for others, especially in a challenging healthcare environment. I am passionate about helping physicians and clinicians reconnect with the joy of practicing medicine and expand their treatment toolbox, so they can have happier patients, happier lives, and strategically differentiate their practice.
As a person who has been a caregiver, I am passionate about helping families who are caring for an ill or aging loved one to regain the time and energy for what matters most.
My programs combine evidence-supported integrative symptom management with authentic wellbeing strategies, to create balanced clinicians and caregivers and better patient outcomes.
Caring for people with serious illness is soul work.
Care whole-heartedly for your patients or loved ones, and
care whole-heartedly for yourself.
"Dr. Chiaramonte is a gifted teacher. She engages learners through masterful storytelling to help illustrate concepts. She delivers the light bulb moment and a gem in her sessions consistently. Dr. Chiaramonte makes learning fun!"
- Terry Nguyen, MD
Tools to help you care for your patients
Skills to talk about hard things
Self-care techniques to improve your own wellbeing
Expert guests
Physicians, clinicians, and others interested in serious illness care will enjoy The Integrative Palliative Podcast.
WIth stories, heart, and a bit of humor, Coping Courageously is a guidebook for caring for seriously ill or aging people.
Insights
Tools
Scripts
Family exercises
"I cannot thank Dr. Chiarmonte enough for this amazing resource for those of us in the healthcare professions... As a hospice nurse, I understood burn-out but not my own misguided mindset when it came to my own journey with palliative care in my family... In one chapter, I literally felt my entire heart, mind and being shift from fear, anger and frustration, to love, compassion and understanding of those dealing with palliative life choices. I am grateful beyond words to feel Delia speaking directly to me through these pages to validate my heart and mind during this most challenging time! A must for families enduring these difficult situations." - Dawn M.
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A guide for physicians and clinicians want more tools to help their patients and more tools to help themselves.