Dr. Ritchie
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Dr. Tulsky is the Poorvu Jaffe Chair, Department of Supportive Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Chief, Division of Palliative Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tulsky has published widely in the areas of clinician-patient communication and quality of life in serious illness, particularly for patients with advanced cancer. His work has been recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2002), the Award for Research Excellence from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2006), the George L. Engel Award from the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare (2013), and the American Cancer Society Pathfinder in Palliative Care award (2014). In 2017, he was named a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Visionary by AAHPM.
He serves on the Board of the Greenwall Foundation (Chair, 2018-2023), Chair of the National Palliative Care Research Center Scientific Advisory Council, and from 2016-22 was Co-Chair of the Roundtable on Quality Care in Serious Illness of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. He is a Founding Director of VitalTalk (www.vitaltalk.org), a non-profit devoted to communication skills teaching and promotes a vision that every seriously ill patient will be surrounded by clinicians who can speak about what matters most and match care to values