Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care

David Browning, LICSW, BCD

David Browning is a founding partner of The Sturbridge Group http://www.sturbridgegroup.com a bereavement training and consultation consortium. He is also founder and director of Safe Passage, a bereavement support program located in Harvard, Massachusetts. He is on the faculty of the End-of-Life Care Certificate Program at Smith College School for Social Work, funded by the Project on Death in America. His chapter, Fragments Of Love: Explorations in the Ethnography of Suffering and Professional Caregiving, will be included in a forthcoming textbook on end-of-life care published by Columbia University Press.

Mr. Browning has taught and presented workshops for Harvard Medical School’s Cape Cod Institute, American Academy of Bereavement, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, National Association for Social Workers, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, and New England Center for Loss and Transition. In his teaching with bereavement and end-of-life care professionals, he focuses on the many levels of meaning at work in the encounter between caregiver and patient, including the centrality of the caregiver’s own life experience with loss and suffering.

Mr. Browning’s email address is davebz@aol.com

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