Trowbridge Lab
Dr. Trowbridge’s current research projects focus on improving palliative care access and delivery for patients from diverse backgrounds and teaching primary palliative care and communication skills to health professionals at all levels.
UW Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care
Dr. Trowbridge is a co-director of the University of Washington's Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care, a nine-month (three-academic quarter) program that equips interprofessional clinicians with the skills and resources needed to provide patient and family-centered, equitable serious illness care to adults and children. Graduates of this program become palliative care champions: providing both subspecialty and primary palliative care, educating others in palliative care and participating in palliative care-related research.
Understanding Care Conference Communication for Seriously Ill Patients and Families
The goal of this project is to better understand the content and structure of communication in care conferences for children with serious illness, and to compare communication for families whose preferred language is English and those who prefer a language other than English.
UW Pediatrics PedsTalk Program
Dr. Trowbridge is the director of the University of Washington Pediatrics PedsTalk program. PedsTalk is the UW Department of Pediatrics' communication training program, built in partnership with VitalTalk. The PedsTalk team is developing and evaluating novel training programs to equips clinicians to facilitate honest, empathic conversations, especially in the setting of serious illness.
Amy Christine Trowbridge, MD
Amy Trowbridge, MD, is an associate professor of pediatrics and an attending physician on the Palliative Care team. She is the co-director of the University of Washington’s Palliative Care Training Center; the director of pediatric education for the Cambia Palliative Care Center of Education; and the director of education for the Division of Bioethics and Palliative Care. She earned her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College, completed her pediatrics residency at University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital and completed her hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In her spare time, Amy likes to zip around Seattle on her e-bike and watch her two kids (Harrison and June) grow.