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