Welcome to the Loggers Patient and Family Centered Research Lab. We are led by Elizabeth Loggers, MD, Ph.D., at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Our team is actively working in the field of specialized medical care for patients with serious illness (i.e. palliative care). Our goal is to help both patients and their families relieve the stress that can accompany a serious illness and to understand how supportive care interventions can improve the experience. Quality of life and symptom management are among our highest priorities for patients, and we utilize cutting edge techniques to achieve these goals.

Our research aims in the Loggers Patient and Family Centered Research Lab are to:

• Improve the symptomatic management of cancer at all stages. We do this through clinical trials of new supportive medications or interventions.
• Optimize how patients and their informal caregivers (i.e., family members) cope with serious illnesses.
• Advance how clinicians communicate and engage patients and families in shared decision making.
• Support patient autonomy and control, particularly over the dying process (by, for example, understanding the barriers experienced by patients who pursue Death with Dignity)

Patient and Family Centered Research studies, including Palliative Care research, at Fred Hutch.

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative Care is a field of specialized medical care for patients at any stage of serious illness and their family.The Palliative Care team at Fred Hutch is a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to helping patients and their families navigate their journey with cancer.

• Learn more about Palliative Care
• To schedule an appointment, please call 206.606.7474 and follow the prompts.

Support Patient and Family Centered Research

Palliative Care research is unique area of study in cancer research.  Facing a cancer diagnosis as a patient, a family member, or caregiver, is incredibly difficult.  Attending appointments, coordinating care, and undergoing therapy with challenging side-effects touches every facet of life.  We aim to deliver and improve upon these ‘softer’ - but no less important - aspects of cancer care, through our research.  Your financial support to help us understand how to improve not only what we do as oncologists, but how we do this as people, is an important part of the Fred Hutch mission.