Primary Palliative Care Symptom Assessment and Management

Date & Time

Friday, October 9, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Location / Format

In Person: UP Health System Marquette 

850 W Baraga Ave, Marquette, MI 49855

Virtual Option: Live online participation available (connection details will be emailed to virtual registrants)

Cost

Free to attend for MAFP Active, Life, and Resident members.
Advance registration required.

Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.

Overview

Palliative symptom management often begins in primary care — not in a palliative care clinic. This 60-minute, case-based session prepares family medicine clinicians to deliver primary palliative care, assessing and relieving suffering in serious illness wherever care is delivered: clinic, hospital, nursing home, or home. Participants will learn how to:

• Perform a structure system assessment in a patient with serious illness including routine screening using a validated tool (ESAS).
• Apply symptom management strategies for common symptoms of serious illness.
• Initiate and titrate opioids for pain in advanced illness, including opioid conversion, renal/hepatic dose adjustment, and bowel prophylaxis.
• Recognize when specialty palliative care or hospice referral is indicated.

Presenter

L. Raquel Clary-Lantis DO, CMD, HMDC

Marquette Family Medicine Residency Faculty, Assistant Professor MSU-CHM

Dr. Clary-Lantis is a faculty member of the Marquette Family Medicine Program and a palliative care physician in the UP Health System Marquette Cancer Center, specializing in family medicine, geriatrics, and hospice and palliative care medicine. She earned her Doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine from the University of Pikeville Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed residency training in family medicine at Florida Hospital-East Orlando. Following residency, she completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor.

The AAFP has reviewed Primary Palliative Care Symptom Assessment and Management and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.00 Live AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 10/09/2026 to 10/09/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This event meets the State of Michigan’s Pain and Symptom Management training requirement.