The Department of Pediatrics is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Teresa Vente to Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics on the Pathway Recognizing Clinical Excellence effective June 1, 2025. Dr. Vente graduated from Touro University of Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine and then completed her Residency in Pediatrics/Adult Psychiatry/Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center and then a fellowship in Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine at Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center. After completing her fellowship, she joined the faculty at Northwestern in 2019 and then joined our faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in October of 2023 as Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics. She is an expert in pediatric palliative care, a field that is in urgent need of talent and committed experts. Dr. Vente has lectured extensively on her work regionally, nationally and internationally. She has served on regional and national committees on curriculum development for pediatric palliative care. Most of her work and speaking engagements were done during her time at Northwestern. Her work spans a variety of areas in pediatric palliative care such as for children’s rare genetic disorders, fetal medicine, children undergoing surgery and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric palliative care. Dr. Vente has been providing extensive didactic teaching on pediatric palliative care to medical students, residents, fellows and providers in various specialties at Northwestern University and WCM. In her role as the pediatric fellowship director for hospice and palliative medicine at Northwestern, Dr. Vente co-developed the curriculum for this novel fellowship track that led to ACGME accreditation. She has widely lectured and published on this topic and served on the American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship Training Committee. We are delighted about Dr. Vente's accomplishments and promotion to Associate Professor and look forward to her future achievements at Weill Cornell Medicine. |