Ramy Sedhom MD, FASCO

PACE-70: Practical Geriatric Assessment (PGA) Implementation Strategies and Correlative Evaluations for Older Adults with Cancer  - Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation PACE-70 evaluates the real-world feasibility of the Practical Geriatric Assessment in community oncology practices across Penn Medicine.

A project led by PC3I Program Director @rsedhom.bsky.social and Deputy Director Samuel Takvorian is implementing the Practical Geriatric Assessment in community oncology sites across @pennmedicine.bsky.social to bring evidence-based #geriatriconcology into routine care.

PC3I Program Director @rsedhom.bsky.social spoke with @realbowtiedoc.bsky.social about the benefits & nuances of Precision #PalliativeCare, which focuses on a patient's needs & preferences rather than diagnosis alone.

Listen to the podcast episode from @ascocancer.bsky.social:

Penn Medicine Princeton’s Geriatric Oncology Program Honored with 2025 ACCC Innovator Award - Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation The Geriatric Oncology Program at Penn Princeton Cancer Center received a 2025 Innovator Award by the Association of Community Cancer Centers

Penn Medicine Princeton's Geriatric Oncology Program, led by PC3I Program Director @rsedhom.bsky.social, has earned a 2025 Innovator Award from the Association of Cancer Care Centers, recognizing it as one of the nation’s most impactful models for advancing equity, quality, & value in #cancercare.

Symptom Management for Well-Differentiated Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: ASCO Guideline | JCO Oncology Practice ASCO Guidelines provide recommendations with comprehensive review and analyses of the relevant literature for each recommendation, following the guideline development process as outlined in the ASCO G...

Symptom Management for Well-Differentiated Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: ASCO Guideline | JCO Oncology Practice ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/...

I'm again thankful to @bristolmyerssquibb.bsky.social for the philanthropic support to make this work possible t.co/E6af8AqyeZ

Caring for the older adult is a passion of mine. It is such an unmet need, intellectually satisfying, & deeply rewarding

I’m proud of our team—compassionate, innovative, and relentlessly committed to ensuring older adults with cancer get the care they deserve 💙 #GeriOnc

In our first year:
🔹 183 older adults assessed (median age 79)
🔹 77% had functional impairment
🔹 541 referrals to PT, SW, palliative care & more
🔹 57% completed advance directives
🏁 Hospice LOS ↑ from 3 to 19 days

What we did!
🖥️ Embedded practical geriatric assessment in EPIC
📬 Auto-triggered surveys for pts 70+
📊 Real-time dashboard to flag impairments
🤝 weekly multidisciplinary care rounds
🧾 SmartText & order sets for seamless workflow

Thrilled to share that our team at Penn Medicine Princeton @pc3innovation.bsky.social received the 2025
ACCC Innovator Award for our Geriatric Oncology Program! accc-cancer.org/home/about/a...

Older adults deserve care tailored to their needs—and we made it real! and scalable

🚨 irAE aficionados! 2nd installment of the ASPirE Case Discussion series - apparently y'all like talking about irAE cases!

🗓️ Tues May 20
⏰ 6:30pm EDT/3:30pm PDT
📍A screen near you

Feat. endocrine and cardiac cases
Hosted by Mimi Wang @mdanderson.bsky.social

I Hope So Too

"Over those days, though, I could have made things just a little bit less difficult for her. I could have protected her from the overcommunication that plagues our inpatient units when patients and families make decisions different from those we would make..."

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What I Wish I Had Done for a Grieving Father | NEJM Having lost trust in physicians when he lost his daughter, a man with newly diagnosed cancer declines care, leaving the oncologist to consider past failures of communication, connection, and trust.

As oncologists, we often grade ourselves on effort & empathy.
But patients/caregivers carry a different scale.
This father’s grief — decades later — reminded me:
Good care isn’t always felt as such.
And the ones left behind may remember only the hurt.

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Amazing work, very novel

The impact of electronic patient-reported outcomes presentation during multi-disciplinary tumor board on clinician discussion of older adults' fitness and preferences Treatment of pancreatic cancer often entails multiple modalities (e.g., chemotherapy, surgery, radiation) that vary in intensity, timing, and toxicity…

Including #ePROs in multidisciplinary tumor board for patients with #cancer dramatically increases patient-centricity of discussions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cancer, Aging, and Meaning: Navigating Psychosocial Challenges

It’s wonderful to have access to psychosocial oncology & a joy to to build wrap around supportive care services for our patients

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