ALS Learning Series

Join us for our August ALS Learning Series on advocating for yourself and effectively communicating with your ALS health team, presented by Dr. Ambereen Mehta and Dr. Suzana Makowski, two leading palliative care ALS experts. This session will provide people living with ALS, their families, and care partners with practical strategies to ensure their voices are heard and their needs are met, fostering a collaborative approach to care.

About the Speakers: Ambereen Mehta, MD & Suzana K. E. Makowski, MD 

Ambereen Mehta, MD: Ambereen K. Mehta, MD, MPH, FAAHPM is an Associate Professor of Palliative Care in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She graduated from the Internal Medicine residency at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. She is currently part of the palliative care faculty at Johns Hopkins and developed the palliative care program in the Johns Hopkins Center for Specialty ALS Care. Before this, she was an Assistant Professor of Palliative Care at the University of Virginia and Medical Director of the UVA/Hospice of the Piedmont Inpatient Hospice Unit (2016-2018) and University of California, Los Angeles where she developed the ALS palliative care program as part of their multidisciplinary ALS Clinic (2018-2020).   

Suzana K. E. Makowski, MD:  Dr. Suzana Makowski is currently the medical director of Compassionate Care ALS, a non-profit group that supports patients and families living with ALS throughout the US.  She has worked as a palliative care physician in various academic and community settings: as Chief of Palliative Medicine at both Unity Hospital, Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, co-chief of Palliative Care at UMass Medical Center and Chan School of Medicine, where she still holds a voluntary Associate Professor of Medicine role, teaching and mentoring students, and as Hospice Medical Director at Hospice and Palliative Care of Cape Cod.  She has served on various committees, including on the Board of the New Hampshire Home Care and Hospice Association, End of Life Counsel to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Quality Committee of AAHPM. She completed her fellowship in Palliative Care at San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care, and Integrative Medicine at University of Michigan, Internal Medicine residency at Baystate Medical Center, and medical school at University of Rochester.