Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD

Instructor in Medicine and Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Palliative Care Service
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street / Founders 600
Boston, MA 02114

Phone: 617 / 724-9197
Fax: 617 / 724-8693

Educational and professional experience:

Columbia College (NY), BA, 1975.
Free University (Berlin, Germany), BA, 1981.
Yale University Graduate School, PhD in Philosophy, 1991.
Yale University School of Medicine, MD, 1992.
Yale - New Haven Hospital, Medical Intern and Resident, 1992-1995.
Harvard Medical School, Fellow in Medical Ethics, 1995-1997.
Harvard Medical School / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Fellow in General Internal Medicine, 1995-1998.
Harvard Medical School: Department of Social Medicine,
Coordinator of Medical Education, 1998-present.
Massachusetts General Hospital:
General Medical Unit and Palliative Care Service, 1997-present

 

Current teaching and research interests:

I am developing a course on "Pain and Palliative Medicine: From Neurobiology to Clinical, Ethical and Social Concerns" for fourth-year medical students. I continue to write on issues of culture and ethnicity in end-of-life care. Recent interests include double effect and sedation for intractable distress of dying patients. I also like to write on philosophy of medicine.