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Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice

Core Faculty

J. Andrew Billings, MD
Director, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Palliative Care
Harvard Medical School

Susan D. Block, MD
Chief, Division of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry
Co-Director, Center for Palliative Care
Harvard Medical School

Janet Abrahm, MD
Director, Pain and Palliative Care Program
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Loring Conant, Jr., MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Connie Dahlin, MSN, APRN, BC, PCM
Advanced Practice Nurse, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital

Marshall Forstein, MD
Director of Resident Training in Psychiatry
AIDS Program and Department of Psychiatry, C ambridge Health Alliance
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Maureen Lynch, MS, APRN-BC, PCM, AOCN
Nurse Practitioner, Pain and Palliative Care Program
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Paul Montgomery, PhD
Director of Community Relations
Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital

Tamara Vesel, MD
Fellowship Director, Pediatric Palliative Care Team
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Children's Hospital Boston

Joanne Wolfe, MD
Director, Pediatric Advanced Care Team,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Children's Hospital Boston
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Additional Faculty

Eric Cassell, MD, MACP ,
Clinical Professor of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
Attending Physician, New York Presbyterian Hospital

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School

Annekathryn Goodman, MD,
Fellowship Director, Gillette Center for Women's Cancers
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, Reproductive Biology
Harvard Medical School

Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH
Associate Director and Fellowship Director
Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital

Jennifer Kales, MS, APRN, BC, ACHPN
Nurse Practitioner, Pain and Palliative Care Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Jennifer Mack, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Pediatrics Core Rotation, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Children's Hospital Boston
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Michael Miovic, MD
Co-Director, Psychosocial Oncology Program,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Anna C. Muriel, MD, MPH
Department of Child Psychiatry, Cancer Center Parenting Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Susan S. Paresky
Senior Vice-President for Development
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Coleen M. Reid, MD
Director of Palliative Care, Hospice of the North Shore, Danvers, MA

Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD
Director, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

External Expert Faculty

Eduardo Bruera, MD
Chief, Symptom Control and Palliative Care
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX

Stephan Friedrichdorf, MD
Pediatric Palliative Care Specialist
Medical Director, Pain and Palliative Care Program
The Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH
Director, Pediatric Palliative Care Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

Lynn H. Spragens, MBA
Principal, Spragens and Associates, LLC, Durham NC

David E. Weissman, MD, FACP
Palliative Care Director, Professor of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin

If you would like to contact us, please send an e-mail to pallcare@partners.org or call Venus Watson, Education Coordinator, at 617-582-7859.

Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, SW 411
44 Binney Street
Boston, MA 02115

Telephone: 617-582-7859