Rima Saad Rassam, PhD, MSN, RN, CPHON®
- Program Coordinator, Palliative Care Program
Departments
Rima Saad Rassam, PhD is a program coordinator in the department of Global Pediatric Medicine, Global Palliative Care Program. She carries more than 22 years of combined expertise in pediatric oncology nursing and pediatric palliative care.
During her professional journey, Rima has developed strong practice, education and research skills through her various nursing roles at the Children's Cancer Institute in Lebanon and at St Jude Global Nursing where she was a program coordinator for the last two years.
She has completed the Nursing fellowship program at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2007 and two research residencies at University of Michigan and Harvard University in 2019.
Her passion for pediatric palliative care molded her academic progress within the Master and PhD degrees at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Her research studies focus on parental perspectives toward pediatric palliative care to ultimately uncover potential areas for improving palliative care in limited resource settings. Rima disseminated her research through several publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at national, regional, and international conferences. She received many national and international awards.
Rima is excited to continue her professional journey at St Jude Global that will provide a venue for investing her passion and skills to alleviate suffering and improve care for children with catastrophic diseases around the world.