Biographical summary
Dr. Kilpatrick is currently the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship program director and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic. She provides palliative medicine consultation in the hospital, clinic, home and virtual settings.
Interests
- Enhancing quality of life and care of people living with serious illness
- Advance care planning
- Intimacy issues in serious illness
- LGBTQ affirmative and inclusive care
- Mindfulness
- Integration of palliative medicine into the care of:
- Advanced end-organ disease
- Solid organ transplantation
- Stem cell transplantation
- Chronic Kidney Disease and Hemodialysis
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)/Motor neuron disease
Mayo Clinic locations
Activities and honors
Certifications
- 2018
Hospice & Palliative MedicineAmerican Board of Family Medicine
- 2016
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family Medicine
Professional memberships
- 2023 - present
MemberPalliative Fellowship Clinical Compentency Committee
- 2022 - present
Palliative Medicine RepresentativeWell-Being Division Champion
- 2021 - present
Committee MemberPalliative Care Faculty Development
- 2021 - present
Physician LeadSchwartz Rounds
- 2019 - present
CME Workgroup MemberCenter for Palliative Medicine Education Committee, Center for Palliative Medicine, Mayo Clinic
- 2019 - present
Resident Education Workgroup MemberCenter for Palliative Medicine Education Committee
- 2019 - present
Program Director Workgroup MemberCenter for Palliative Medicine Education Committee
- 2019 - 2023
ChairPalliative Fellowship Clinical Competency Committee
- 2018 - present
MemberCenter for Palliative Medicine Education Committee
- 2018 - 2019
MemberPalliative Fellowship Clinical Compentency Committee
- 2018 - present
MemberMedical Ethics Committee, Mayo Clinic in Florida
- 2017 - present
MemberVAD Practice Committee
Publications