Dr. Geoffrey Parker Dunn MD
Hospice and Palliative Care Specialist | Hospice and Palliative Medicine
201 State St Hamot Faculty Specia Erie PA, 16550About
Dr. Geoffrey Dunn is a hospice and palliative care specialist practicing in Erie, PA. Dr. Dunn provides care to people who are seriously ill. As a hospice and palliative care specialist, Dr. Dunn works to relieve the pain and suffering of people who have a severe medical condition and are in a critical state. Hospice and palliative care specialists try to improve the quality of life for a person who may not have much time left to live.
Education and Training
Jefferson Med Coll-Thos Jefferson Univ, Philadelphia Pa 1979
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 1979
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS- Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Surgical palliation in advanced disease: recent developments.
- The paradox of hydration in advanced terminal illness.
- When the sun can set on an unoperated bowel obstruction: management of malignant bowel obstruction.
- Understanding and managing cancer cachexia.
- An evolving strategy for surgical care.
- Surgical palliative care.
- Surgical palliative care: an enduring framework for surgical care.
- Transplantation and palliative care: the convergence of two seemingly opposite realities.
- Palliative care: a promising philosophical framework for gastroenterology.
- Palliating patients who have unresectable colorectal cancer: creating the right framework and salient symptom management.
- Palliative care in the surgical intensive care unit: where least expected, where most needed.
- Surgical palliative care of advanced wounds.
- Restoring palliative care as a surgical tradition.
- A surgeon now board certified in palliative care.
- Principles and core competencies of surgical palliative care: an overview.
Treatments
- Heart Disease
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Nearest Hospitals
UPMC HAMOTl
201 STATE STREET ERIE PA 16550SAINT VINCENT HOSPITALl
232 WEST 25TH STREET ERIE PA 16544MILLCREEK COMMUNITY HOSPITALl
5515 PEACH STREET ERIE PA 16509