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Laurie Rosenblatt, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
44 Binney St. SW 411
Boston, MA 02115
Fax: 617 632-6180
Educational and professional experience:
1986 - 1987 Transitional Intern, Medical College of Ohio Hospital, Toledo, Ohio
1987 - 1989 Resident in Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 - 1990 Chief Resident, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, Massachusetts
1990 –1991 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist New England Deaconess, Boston, Massachusetts
1991-1993 Staff Psychiatrist, Indochinese Refugee Clinic Brighton Marine Public Health Center, Brighton, Massachusetts.
1994-1995 Staff Psychiatrist, Broward General Medical Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1993-1998 Staff Psychiatrist, The Retreat, Sunrise, Florida
1994-1999 Staff Psychiatrist, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1995-1998 Associate Chief of Staff, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1999- Staff Psychiatrist, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
1999- Staff Psychiatrist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Academic Appointments
1987 - 1990 Clinical Teaching Fellow, Harvard Medical School
1990 - 1993 Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
1997 - 1998 Adjunct Professor in English Literature, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida,
1999 - 2005 Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston
2005 - Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Current teaching and research interests:
I enjoy the cross-fertilization of seminar teaching with participants of different backgrounds and educational levels. Most of my teaching has been with medical students, particularly in the Living with Life-threatening Illness course at HMS and in the basic Psychiatry course 700-MJ, Patient-Doctor 1, but I’ve also worked with Masters students in English literature looking at literature from a psychoanalytic perspective. I’ve taught CME courses ranging from the treatment of depression in medical and surgical practices to treatment of political torture survivors. In addition to PCEP, I teach in the Practical Aspects of Palliative Care course. One of my great pleasures is supervision of fellows in psycho-social oncology and palliative care at the patient bedside.
I’ve always been interested in people’s stories. Over the past several years I’ve become involved in qualitative research focused on the stories people tell when they are living with terminal illness. From this research, my co-PI Victoria Alexander and I developed patient monologues that we use to introduce medical students to feelings, topics, and experiences of patients living with cancer before students enter into relationships with patients at the Harvard Medical School. I have also taught workshops on narrative and medicine here, at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and at the National Palliative Medicine meetings.If you have additional questions, please contact us via e-mail at: pallcare@partners.org .