Kimberly Curseen, MD
Director, Supportive and Palliative Care Outpatient Services, Emory Healthcare
Highlights
- LBBC Medical Advisory Board member since 2023
- Speaker, 2024 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer and 2023 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Director of supportive and palliative care outpatient services for Emory Healthcare
- Board certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and palliative care
Kimberly A. Curseen, MD, is the director of supportive and palliative care outpatient services for Emory Healthcare. She is also the director and primary provider for the Supportive Oncology Clinic. The clinic provides physical, emotional, and spiritual care for patients with cancer at any point in their disease process. The clinic also assists patients with complex decision-making.
Dr. Curseen served as the program developer and director of the geriatric palliative care clinical services program at the University of Arkansas from 2009 to 2014. She is board-certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and palliative care. She was named one of the palliative medicine inspirational leaders under 40 by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine for 2014-2015. She currently sits on the board of the Georgia Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and is a co-chair of the Georgia Cancer Consortium palliative care working group.
Experience & accolades
Expertise
- Palliative care
- Internal medicine
Education
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Fellow, geriatric medicine
- Yale New Haven Hospital
- Resident, internal medicine
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
- Doctor of medicine
- North Carolina Wesleyan College
- Bachelors
Experience
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Associate professor, division of palliative medicine
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Director, palliative medicine program
- Emory Healthcare
- Director of supportive and palliative care outpatient services
Awards & distinctions
- Top Doctors, Atlanta Magazine, 2020-Present
- Palliative Medicine Inspirational Leaders under 40, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2014-2015
Professional memberships & board positions
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Board
- American Geriatrics Society
- Georgia Cancer Consortium Palliative Care Working Group
- TOUCH, the Black Breast Cancer Alliance, Medical Advisory Board
- Living Beyond Breast Cancer, Medical Advisory Board
Publications
- “Community Partners' Perceptions of the Benefits and Burdens of Participating in a Community Engagement Course with Medical Students,” Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2024
- “Social Deprivation and End-of-Life Care Use Among Adults With Cancer,” Journal of Clinical Oncology, Oncology Practice, 2024
- “Psychedelics and Related Pharmacotherapies as Integrative Medicine for Older Adults in Palliative Care,” Clinical Geriatric Medicine, 2023
- “Early Palliative Care for the Geriatric Patient with Cancer,” Clinical Geriatric Medicine, 2023
- “Advancing the Vision of Palliative Care for the Older Adult,” Clinical Geriatric Medicine, 2023
