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It is no exaggeration to say that Jennifer Temel, MD, has helped change how cancer care is practiced. Through her research, she has shown that integrating palliative care and oncology care from the time of cancer diagnosis improves patient outcomes. This early integrated care model is now the standard of care in the United States and many other countries. Now, however, because it’s the standard of care, demand for early palliative care is so great that the palliative care workforce is unable to meet every patient’s needs. So Dr. Temel is now working to use novel healthcare technologies—such as telehealth and mobile apps—to deliver patient-centered palliative care to cancer patients and their families everywhere. Jennifer Temel, MD, is an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor. She is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Cancer Outcomes Research Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. 2:17 – On what motivated her to become an oncologist 3: