Juliet Jacobsen , MD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Founders 600, 55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114-2696
                                                 
Phone: 617.724.9193
Fax: 617.724.8693
E-mail: jjacobsen@partners.org

Educational and professional experience:

09/89-06/93      BA, University of Chicago
09/93-0697       MD, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
09/99-06/01      DPH (Diploma in Public Health), University of Cambridge, England
07/97-07/98      Intern, Transitional Year, Andrews Air Force Base, MD
07/02-07/05      Resident, Internal Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
07/05-07/06      Graduate Assistant in Medicine, Palliative Care, Massachusetts General
7/06-present     Assistant in Medicine, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General

Current teaching and research interests:

My teaching focuses almost exclusively on end-of-life care and primarily involves supervising palliative care fellows. I also teach a session with fourth-year medical students who are rotating through their internal medicine sub-internship, and students and residents who rotate through their elective on palliative care. This teaching is directed towards basic use of opioids for pain and dyspnea, basic symptom management, and an introduction to some more advanced doctor-patient communication skills. My research has been focused on the idea of demoralization in end-of-life patients and the relationship between demoralization and grief.

If you have additional questions, please contact us via e-mail at: pallcare@partners.org .