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

Muriel Gillick, MD Dr. Muriel Gillick received her BA with Highest Honors from Swarthmore College and her MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Boston City Hospital and her geriatrics fellowship at the Boston University Medical Center. Her scholarly interests are in medical ethics and care near the end of life. Dr. Gillick has published numerous articles in the medical literature, including the controversial Sounding Board in the New England Journal of Medicine, "Rethinking the Role of Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia." She has published three books for a general audience discussing ethical, medical, and other issues arising in old age. Her most recent book is Lifelines: Living Longer, Growing Frail, Taking Heart (New York: WW Norton, 2000). She is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, a faculty member at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and physician-in-chief at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, a teaching nursing home in Boston. [Return to Promising Practice]

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