CURRICULUM VITAE

Ira R. Byock, M.D.

Director of Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Office: Personal Contact Information:

One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756 28 Birch Lane, Enfield, NH 03748

603-650-5402

603-667-7598 cell

Education:

1978 University of Colorado, School of Medicine Doctor of Medicine

Denver, Colorado

1973 University of Colorado, B.A. Biology

Boulder, Colorado

Postdoctoral Training:

1978 – 81 Internship and University of California – San Francisco

Family Practice Residency Fresno, California

Credentials:

Certification

1996 – present American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

1981 – present American Board of Family Practice

1989 – 1998 American Board of Emergency Medicine

Fellowship

2007 – present American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

1986 – present American Academy of Family Medicine

Licensure

2004 – present New Hampshire

2004 – present Vermont

1989 – present California

1982 – present Montana

1980 – 1993 Colorado


Academic Appointments:

2011 – present Professor of Medicine Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

2004 – present Professor of Anesthesiology & Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Community and Family Medicine

2004 – present Dorothy & John J. Byrne, Jr. Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Distinguished Chair of Palliative Medicine

1997 – 2006 Research Professor, Department of Philosophy University of Montana

1997 – 2006 Faculty Member, Practical Ethics Center University of Montana

Awards and Honors:

2012 Compassion in Action Award – Santa Clara University

2011 PDIA Palliative Medicine Community Leadership Award, American Academy of Hospice

and Palliative Medicine

2008 Outstanding Colleague Award, National Association of Catholic Chaplains

2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Anamcara Project, Bend, OR

2003 Roger C. Bone Memorial Lecture and Award, CHEST Foundation

2002 Distinguished Service Award, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

2002 Alpha-1 Association Bayer Leadership Award

2002 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

2000 Natalie Davis Spingarn Writers Award, National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship

1997 Hans M. Rozendaal Award, Community Hospice of Albany, NY

1995 Person of the Year, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Professional Positions:

2008 – present Elected Member, Board of Governors, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

2004 – present Director, Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

2006 – present Advisory Committee Member, HQuest - ISS project, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

2006 – present Clinical Special Interest Group, New Hampshire Hospice & Palliative Care Organization

2006 – present Steering Committee Member, New Hampshire Pain Initiative

2006 – present Member, New Hampshire Comprehensive Cancer Collaboration

1992 – present Director, The Palliative Care Service (consulting and teaching practice), Missoula, MT

2006 – 2011 Associate Director for Patient and Family-Centered Care, Norris-Cotton Cancer Center

1997 – 2006 Director, Promoting Excellence in End of Life Care, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

1996 – 2005 Co-founder, Principal Investigator, Life’s End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project

1987 – 1996 Hospice Medical Director, Partners in Home Care, Missoula, MT

1982 – 1984 Family Medicine, Yellowstone River Family Medicine Center, Livingston, MT

1981 – 1982 Medical Consultant, Hospice of Fresno, St. Agnes Hospital, Fresno, CA

Boards, Advisory Committees, Major Assignments and Consultations

2012 Co-Chair, Capitol Campaign American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

2011 – present Advisory Committee Conversation Project, IHI, Cambridge, MA

2011– present National Advisor S4OM - Society for Oncology Massage, an organization that seeks to establish standards, support practitioners, foster research, and expand access to specialized massage for cancer patients.

2010 – present National Advisor StoryCorps, Inc., Legacy Initiative

2010 – present National Advisor AgeWISE, a national Geropalliative care quality improvement program that seeks to educate hospital nurses and teams in providing care for frail elders and incurably ill people.

2009 – present Co-investigator ENABLE III studies, led by Marie Bakitas, APRN, DSc, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

2008 – present Co-investigator Outlook studies, led by Karen Steinhauser, PhD, Duke University

2008 – present Senior Advisor, Ethics, Advocacy & American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Awareness Strategic Coordinating

Committee

2005 – present Research Committee National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

2004 – present Clinical Advisor Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making

2003 – present Board of Advisors: Naropa University Boulder, CO

End-of-Life Care Certificate Program

2006 Technical Advisory Committee Project: “Informing National Policy to Improve Palliative End-of-Life Care in Medicine” for Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Dept of Health and Human Services

2005 – 2008 National Advisory Committee Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life

2005 – 2006 National Steering Committee Physician section of the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals (NCHPP)

2005 – 2010 Steering Committee New Hampshire Cancer Pain Initiative

2004 – 2009 Committee Member New Hampshire Health Care Decisions

2004 – 2008 Caring Connections A program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care

Organization and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

2004 – 2007 National Advisory Committee National Association of Attorneys General for End of Life

2004 – 2006 Task Force Member Vermont Attorney General Task Force on Advance Directives

2004 – 2006 International Faculty Sacred Art of Living Center, Bend, Oregon7

2002 – 2003 Board of Directors Hospice Care Foundation Inc., Missoula

2001 – 2007 Advisory Board The Green House Project, a national project of The Eden Alternative, The Center for Growing and Becoming, Sherburne, NY

2001 – 2005 Advisory Board The Mothers’ Living Stories Project, Berkley, CA

Washington, DC

2001 – 2003 Public Policy Committee National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship

2000 – 2001 Advisory Board National W;t Project

2000 – 2003 Legislative Subcommittee National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

2000 – 2002 Public Policy Committee Partnership for Caring

1999 – 2003 Board of Directors National Health Council, Washington, DC

1999 – 2003 Special Representative for the National Health Council, Washington, DC

American Academy of Hospice

and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM)

1999 – 2000 End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel American College of Physician and American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM)

1999 Task Force and Editorial Board Twelve Recommendations for Improving End-of-Life Care in Managed Care, Center for Applied Ethics and Professional Practice Educational Development Center, Inc.

1998 – 2002 Founding Member, Partnership for Caring, Washington, DC

Board of Directors, Executive,

Committee and Secretary-Treasurer

1997 – 2002 Task Force on Palliative Care Last Acts, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

1997 – 1998 Committee on the Medicare National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Hospice Benefit and End-of-Life Care

1997 President American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

1996 – 2006 Director, Promoting Excellence in The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

End-of -ife Care

1995 Secretary American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

1990 – 1996 Board of Directors American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

1990 – 1996 Ethics Committee American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

1988 – 1993 Chair, Comfort One Task Force Montana Department of Health and Environmental Sciences

1988 – 1991 Montana Committee on Trauma American College of Surgeons

1988 Principal Author – HB 422, Montana State Legislature

Amended Montana Living

Will Act

1983 – 1987 Physician Member Core Clinical Team, Big Sky Hospice, Billings, MT

1982 – 1983 Founding Board Member Gateway Hospice, Livingston, MT

1981 – 1982 Member, Board of Directors American Cancer Society, CA State Division

1981– 1982 Director of Program Development Esperanza Care, Inc., Fresno, CA

1980 – 1981 Medical Director Esperanza Care, Inc., Fresno, CA

1980 Co-founder Esperanza Care, Inc., Fresno, CA

Community Service

1990 – 1993 Founder, President Round Up Missoula, Inc.

1989 – 1993 Board of Directors Missoula Food Bank

1988 – 1991 Board of Directors American Cancer Society, CA State Division

Editorial Boards

2005 – present Associate Editor, PC-FACS Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

2004 – present Advisory Panel People Living with Cancer website of

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

1999 – present Editorial Board American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

1998 – present Editorial Board Journal of Palliative Medicine

2004 Editorial Board Polska Medycyna Paliatywna

2003 – 2006 Reviewer Healthwise

1998 – 2003 Editorial Board Innovations


Journal Referee Activities

2012 Reviewer Archives of internal Medicine

2007 – present Reviewer Critical Care Medicine

2006 – present Reviewer CHEST

1999 Co-Editor, special section on Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Measuring Quality of Care at Life’s End

1998 – 2007 Reviewer Journal of American Medical Association

Named Lectureships

Oct 22, 2012 Helmut Schumann Lecture Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

June 11, 2012 Jesse Galt Lecture Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Dover, NH

Apr 11, 2012 Congdon Lecture Genesys Regional Medical Center, Grand Blanc, MI

Feb 2, 2012 Bowles Chapel Lecture Memorial Hermann System Services, Houston, TX

Nov 5, 2011 Kenneth Lee Memorial Lecture Fairview Hospital, Westlake, OH

Oct 3, 2011 Jahna Halderman-Forland Leigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA

Memorial Lecture

May 4, 2011 Sandra Goldberg Lecture McGill University, Montreal, Canada

May 12, 2010 Irvin B. Leninson Memorial Lecture Baltimore, MD

Apr 11, 2008 C. Everett Koop Lecture Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Mar 11, 2008 Goldman-Berland Lecture Providence Center for Health Care Ethics, Portland, OR

Nov 5, 2007 Jesse Galt Lecture Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Dover, NH

Mar 10, 2006 Irving S. Cooper Lecture Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ

Mar 8, 2004 Harry and Carolyn Bird Lecture Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

Lecture Series in Health Care Policy

Apr 2, 2003 Cabot Eliot Lecture Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Mar 12, 2002 Jack Provonsha Lecture Loma Linda Medical Center,

Provonsha Center for Bioethics

Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA

Oct 28, 2000 Norman Sharrer Lecture Kaweah Delta Health Care District, Visalia, CA

June 7, 2000 Florence Schorske Wald lecture University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Mar 19, 2000 Anne Marie Filkin Lecture American Medical Directors Association, San Francisco, CA

Nov 3, 1998 Robert B. Rasmus, M.D. La Crosse, WI

Memorial Lecture

Sept 19, 1997 Katie Dolan Lecture Hospice of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH

June 18, 1997 Douglas West Memorial Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY

Lecture

Nov 28, 1995 Bruce E. Siegel Memorial Lecture Mount Carmel Health Care, Columbus, OH


Major Research Interests

· Development of health service delivery models for concurrent life-extending and palliative care – acute inpatient, outpatient specialty clinics, academic and community-based primary care, long-term and chronic care settings.

· The intersection of health services research, cultural values clarification, and public health policy.

· Application of human development framework to outcome measurement of individual and family experience with serious illness, caregiving, dying and grief.

· Human development-based counseling for life completion and closure, and measurable impact on individual and family experience with serious illness, caregiving, dying and grief.

· The influence of cultural and religious values on end-of-life experience and care.

· Transitions of care during late stage illness – involving acute care hospitals, home with hospice or home health, nursing homes.

· Investigation of the epidemiology, treatment and prevention of crises among patients cared for at home with hospice.

· Development, validation and revision of the Missoula-Vitas Quality of Life Index.

· Data driven, community-based quality improvement in: advance care planning; health care and social services; and volunteer and informal social support to people with serious illness and family caregivers.

· Measurement methodology for evaluating: access to services; quality of care; quality of life outcomes; and costs during the last phase of life.

Bibliography

Books

Byock I: The Best Care Possible. New York, NY: Avery/Penguin, 2012

Byock I: The Four Things That Matter Most. New York, NY: Free Press, a division of Simon and Schuster, 2004

Byock I, contributing author: Living Fully, Dying Well: Reflecting on Death to Find Your Life’s Meaning. Bastian EW, Stanley TL (eds) Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2009

Heffner J, Byock I (eds): Palliative and End of Life Pearls. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus, 2002

Staton J, Shuy R, Byock I: A Few Months to Live: Different Paths to Life’s End. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2001

Byock I: Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life. New York, NY: Riverhead/Putnam Books, 1997

Chapters

Byock, I, Merriman, M: The Missoula-VITAS Quality of Life Index, chapter for Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research, Springer (in submission – expected 2013)

Byock, I, Ingram, C: Palliative Care for Advance Dementia, in Neurology in practice: Dementia, John Wiley and Sons ( in submission – expected 2013)

Byock, I: Case Commentary: When Emergencies Happen, in Decisions at the End of Life: A Spiritual Sourcebook, Sulmasy, D. Wald, FS, Lazenby, M. (eds); Oxford University Press (in submission – expected 2014)

Byock I: Physician-Assisted Suicide: Why Both Sides Are Wrong, in Bauer-Maglin N, Perry D (eds): Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make, Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers Press, 2010, pp 301-311

Byock I, Palac D: Confidentiality in Palliative Medicine, Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 4th Edition, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp281-289

Byock I, Sateia M: Sleep in Palliative Care, Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 4th Edition, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp1059-1083

Byock I: The Outstretched Arm. New York, NY: a publication of the National Center for Jewish Healing, 2001

Byock I: Personal Health and Human Development in Life-Threatening Conditions, in Chochinov HM, Breitbart W (eds): Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine, 2nd Edition, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009 pp281-299

Byock I: Learning from One Another: Lessons from Pediatrics for Palliative Care, in Armstrong-Dailey A, Zarbock S (eds): Hospice Care for Children, ed 3. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008 pp 378-397

Byock I: Principles of Palliative Care, in Walsh, T.D. (ed), Textbook of Palliative Medicine, Saunders, Elsevier, 2008 pp 33-41

Byock I, Twohig JS: Delivering Palliative Care in Challenging Settings and To Hard-to-Reach Populations, in Ferrell BR, Coyle N (eds): Textbook of Palliative Nursing, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp 1109-1118

Byock I, Norris K: A Community-Based Approach to Improving the Quality of Life’s End, in Ferrell BR, Coyle N, (eds): Textbook of Palliative Nursing, 2nd Edition. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp 1119-1128

Davies C, Byock I: Spiritual Care of the Renal Patient, in Chambers EJ, Germain M, Brown E (eds): Supportive Care of the Renal Patient. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp 191-206

Byock I, Corbeil YJ: Caring When Cure Is No Longer Possible, in Overcash J, Balducci L (eds): The Older Cancer Patient: Guide for Nurses and Related Professionals. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, Inc, 2003, pp 193-214

Byock I: Foreword, in Handbook for End-of-Life Care in Correctional Facilities, Volunteers of America, Alexandria, Virginia, 2001

Byock I: Learning from One Another: Lessons from Pediatrics for Palliative Care, in Armstrong-Dailey A, Zarbock S (eds): Hospice Care for Children. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 293-312

Byock I, Caplan A, Snyder L: Beyond Symptom Management: Physician Roles and Responsibility, in Snyder L, Quill T (eds): Palliative Care, Physician’s Guide to End-of-Life Care. Philadelphia, PA: American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine, 2001, Chapter 4, pp 56-71