Tamara Vesel, MD

Fellowship Director, Pediatric Palliative Care
Children’s Hospital Boston
Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
44 Binney Street
Boston MA 02115

Phone: 617 632 5042

 

Educational and professional experience:

I finished medical school in my native country Czechoslovakia in
1985 and after pediatric residency I worked as a pediatrician at the
University Hospital until Summer 1989. Our family immigrated to the USA where I repeated a pediatric residency at Tufts–New England Medical Center in Boston. I continued my education and finished my fellowship in pediatric critical care at Yale New Haven Hospital, Connecticut. During my fellowship, I took graduate courses in medical ethics at Brown University/Philosophy Department. I have practiced pediatric critical care since 1996 at Tufts-NEMC in Boston until the end of 2003 when I joined the pediatric palliative care team at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital, Boston. I have been enchanted by palliative medicine ever since.      

 

Current teaching and research interests:

• Pediatric palliative care fellowship program director since 2006 at DFCI and Children’s hospital
• Director –Harvard Medical School course; Living with Life Threatening  Illness 2008
• Co-director Pediatric Track PCEP 2008
• Rabkin fellow of Medical education at Shapiro Institute at BI, HMS 2005/2006
• Advanced fellowship in Medical education at Shapiro Institute, HMS 2008/2009
• Living with life threatening illness HMS 1 st year elective 2005, 2006 , faculty
• PALS director for 9 years-teaching resuscitation in pediatrics in academic centers and community
• Tufts University-lecturer in 1st year medical school- Delivering Bad News, Death in Childhood