Professional Overview
My medical training and career have focused on helping people navigate complex decisions in the setting of serious illness, uncertainty, and life transition.
I am fellowship trained in:
Oncology
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Hospice and Palliative Medicine
and have practiced across academic medical centers and integrated health systems.
Over the course of my career, I have cared for patients and families in intensive care units, cancer programs, and palliative care settings — environments where decisions often involve weighing difficult tradeoffs under conditions of uncertainty.
This clinical work has shaped a long-standing focus on:
how people understand options
how values and priorities guide choices
why some decisions feel more settled and easier to live with over time than others
Education, Program Building, and Leadership
In parallel with clinical care, I have spent many years as an educator and program builder, designing and leading interdisciplinary training programs in communication and decision support.
This work has included:
fellowship co-creation
curriculum development
national teaching focused on serious illness communication, shared decision-making, and values-aligned care
Recognition
My work has been recognized through:
multiple teaching excellence awards
induction into the Geisel Academy of Master Educators at Dartmouth
Additional details regarding academic appointments, invited presentations, and publications are available in the academic CV linked below.
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