John Kutsch, President and CEO
Community Hospices

jkutsch@communityhospices.org

Kent Norman, Chief Operating Officer

Community Hospices

knorman@communityhospices.org

Dr. Sydney Dy, MD, MSc

Inpatient Hospice Unit

Sydney Dy, MD, MSc received her medical degree and a Masters in Health Services Research from the Stanford School of Medicine.  Board-certified in both specialties, she trained in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine.   She completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins.  Dr. Dy helped create, and is the primary attending and fellowship director for, the interdisciplinary Palliative Care Consultation Service at the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine.  

She attends on the cancer pain consultation service at Johns Hopkins' Department of Oncology and at the Washington Home inpatient hospice unit.  She is the Medical Director for the Omega Life Program, an outpatient palliative care case management service of Johns Hopkins Healthcare.  

Dr. Dy is an Assistant Professor at the Health Services Research Center, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and at the Departments of Medicine and Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.   She was the Medical Director for Johns Hopkins Hospice before joining Maryland Community Hospice as Associate Medical Director.   Johns Hopkins affiliated with Community Hospices in 2002.  

Dr. Dy teaches on end-of-life, hospice, and palliative care issues through Johns Hopkins Hospital and Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and co-teaches a course on Quality of Health Care.   Her research interests include improving quality, use of technology, and access to care for patients facing serious and terminal illnesses; quality of health care; and inner-city health care.

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