Khaliah Johnson, MD
Khaliah Johnson, MD
Chief, Pediatric Palliative Care Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
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A self-introduction: “Many of the women in my family were healers in various permutations.”

A physician on her decision to pursue Pediatric Palliative Care: “When you’re caring for children, you’re also caring about what’s happening in their community.”

An MD on importance of mentorship for a diverse healthcare workforce that can service our diverse population

Centering in the Margins: Including and tending to the perspectives of those who have been historically marginalized which is very relevant to the work of palliative care.

An MD on how she meets a family for the first time: “Being genuine in my presence and extending an invitation for people to share with me who they are.”

A patient family encounter that grew me as physician: I learned “to serve as a vessel, to be a container, for their reality.”

When it comes to caring for communities of color, the relationships and trust fundamentally are first with family and community.

A physician on what is needed to build towards more racially concordant care.

The healthcare community has an obligation to address that HC system is inhererently racist.
