Eva H. Chittenden, MD

Director of Educational Programs
Palliative Care Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
Founders 600, 55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA  02114

Phone: 617-643-6164
Fax: 617-724-8693

 

Educational and professional experience:

Yale College, B.A., 1988
Harvard Medical School, M.D., 1995
Medicine Intern and Resident, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA, 1995-98
Physician, Tuba City Indian Medical Center, Indian Health Service, 1998-2000
Attending physician, Alameda County Medical Center, Oakland, CA 2001-2002
Hospitalist and palliative care physician, Moffitt-Long Hospital, 2002-2008
Acting Director, UCSF Palliative Care Service, 2007-2008
Co-Director, Foundations of Patient Care and Director, Transitional Clerkship, UCSF, 2006-2008
Director of Educational Programs, Palliative Care Service, MGH, 2008-

Current teaching and research interests:

My charge at MGH is to develop and expand educational programs for medical students, residents, and non-hospice and palliative medicine fellows in all aspects of palliative care.  This includes developing rotations on our busy inpatient consultation service and in our outpatient clinics; working with colleagues at Dana-Farber to create an intensive interdisciplinary elective in palliative medicine for 4th year medical students; and to work to increase palliative care teaching in the Harvard Medical School curriculum in general.  In addition, I am a member of the AAHPM HPM Fellowship Competencies Workgroup which has defined fellowship competencies and measurable outcomes, and created a toolkit of evaluation tools in accordance with ACGME guidelines.