Todd Rinehart, LICSW, APHSW-C

Todd Rinehart, LICSW, APHSW-C

Social Work and Spiritual Care Director, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

Educational and professional experience

1980        BFA, University of Tulsa
1989        BA, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
2000        MSW, New York University
2000        Hospice of New York, NYC, Clinical Social Worker
2001        The Actor’s Fund of America, NYC, Clinical Social Worker in the HIV/AIDS Initiative
2002        Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC, Clinical Social Worker with Jacob Perlow Hospice
2002-'06 Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, General Medicine Clinical Social Worker
2006-       Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, Social Work Director
2008        Post Graduate End of Life Care Certificate Program for Social Work,Smith College
2008        Kenneth B. Schwartz Fellowship in Pastoral Care, MGH
2008        Clinical Scholar, MGH Clinical Recognition Program
 

Current teaching and research interests

 

Todd Rinehart, LICSW, APHSW-C is the Social Work and Spiritual Care Director, with the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine and certified as an Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Worker. His interest in end of life care began as a volunteer with the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in NYC during the height of the AIDS epidemic. That experience changed the direction of his life and led him to earning his Master of Social Work degree at New York University. Since graduating in 2000 he has spent his social work career working in HIV/AIDS, hospice and palliative care. 

Todd has been a member of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care faculty since 2008.  He also serves on the faculty of the Harvard Palliative Care Fellowship Program.  Todd is one of the course planners for Practical Aspects of Palliative Care (PAPC) and serves on the steering committee for the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care.  Todd is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network and the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

For the past decade, Todd has volunteered as a counselor for Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp for children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or guardian. Todd is an avid theatre goer and dabbles in community theatre.