Ira R Byock M.D.
Ira R. Byock, M.D. is Director of Palliative
Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical
Center, and Professor, Departments of
Anesthesiology and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth
Medical School, Lebanon,
NH . He is also Director of the
Palliative Care Service, Missoula,
MT. Dr. Byock has been involved in hospice and
palliative care since 1978, during his residency. At that time he helped found a hospice home
care program for the indigent population served by the university hospital and
county clinics of Fresno, California.
He is a Past President of the American
Academy of Hospice and
Palliative Medicine (1997) Dr. Byock
has authored numerous articles on the ethics and practice of end-of-life care.
His book, Dying Well: The Prospect
for Growth at the End of Life, is available from
Putnam/Riverhead. In 1995 Dr. Byock was the recipient of the National Hospice
Organization=s Person of the Year award, in 2000 was given the
National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship=s
Natalie
Davis Spingarn, Writers Award, and in 2003 the American College
of CHEST Physicians Roger Bone Memorial Lecture Award. His most recent book, The Four Things That Matter Most, published by the Free Press (a
division of Simon & Schuster) was released in March 2004.
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