Chief Medical Officer, LaRabida Children's Hospital
University of Chicago Medical Center
K Sarah Hoehn, MD, MBe, is board certified in pediatric critical care medicine, pediatrics, and pediatric hospice and palliative medicine. Currently she is the Chief Medical Officer of LaRabida Children's Hospital. Prior to that, she was at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, where she has been the Director of the Pediatric Supportive Care Team program, which encompasses pain, palliative care and integrative medicine. She was an Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, and she used to co directs the Ethics Consultation program for the hospital. In addition, she was an assistant program director of the pediatrics residency, for wellbeing and resilience. Her passion is addressing moral distress and moral injury at all stages of training, and supporting everyone in the multi disciplinary team. Her research interests include studying the impact of standard triggers for palliative care consultation, addressing health care disparities in palliative care and studying burnout among trainees and attending. She is involved in addressing food insecurity at a local level, by managing a community fridge. Her passion is to encourage patients, families and health care workers to find peace amidst difficult circumstances. Specifically, she tries to incorporate "what brought you joy today?" to patients, their families and all health care workers.