Meet the Faculty

Dr. Pattison is a palliative medicine physician with more than two decades of clinical experience in the field. She is the medical director for Franciscan Hospice and Palliative Care. In 2008, she was appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire to the Medical Quality Assurance Commission for Washington State and served as chair between 2010 – 2012. In 2014, Dr. Pattison was selected to participate in a 32-member Alzheimer’s Disease Working Group to develop a plan for the care of persons diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Dr. Pattison’s medical interests include ethical issues at end of life, systems integration of palliative care, and access for persons with dementia to palliative care and hospice.
 
  

Dr. Cofer has been a full-time specialist in Hospice and Palliative Medicine since completing her fellowship training at UW in 2010 – the first physician to graduate from the newly created program. She has served as a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St. Clare and St. Anthony hospitals, where she helped to develop the inpatient Palliative Medicine programs in 2010-2013. Since then, she has been full time at Franciscan Hospice House, caring for hospice patients who require inpatient admission for management of severe or complicated symptoms. She provides teaching and mentorship to Internal Medicine residents and Palliative Medicine fellows.