Director, Palliative Care Service, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Co-chair, Hospital Ethics Committee
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
1994 Medical School - Case Western Reserve University 1994
1997 Residency - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
1997-2001 Primary Care Physician - Brunswick, ME
2001-2003 Hospitalist - Brigham and Women's Hospital
2003-2007 Hospitalist Director - Emerson Hospital, Concord MA
2007-2013 Hospitalist Chief, Palliative Care Physician - Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge MA
2013-2018 Palliative Care Physician - Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
John Halporn, MD practiced primary care and hospitalist medicine before evolving to palliative care practice. He has been involved in teaching residents and fellows in both office and inpatient practice, and contributes to several Harvard Palliative Care CME courses. His interests are medical ethics, hospice, and provider-patient-family communication.