Innovations in End-of-Life Care
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Dr. Robert Arnold holds the Leo H. Criep Chair in Patient Care and is professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine; chief, Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics; and assistant director for education, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also serves as the assistant medical director of palliative care for the Institute for Quality Improvement at the UPMC Health System.

Dr. Arnold's research activities focus on teaching ethics to residents, doctor-patient communication regarding end-of-life issues, and organ donation. As a Project on Death in America Faculty Scholar, he focused on teaching physician leaders how to teach other physicians to communicate better regarding ethical, psychosocial, and existential issues at the end-of-life. He is developing a structured curriculum on doctor-patient communication at the end of life for oncology fellows and is exploring more fully the barriers to communication. He is currently on sabbatical in Sydney, Australia working with Phyllis Butow, PhD, on these questions.

His clinical activities focus on providing palliative care consults in a tertiary care hospital and providing primary care to persons who are HIV-seropositive. He has been the past president of the America Society of Bioethics and Humanities, is a national faculty member for the American Academy on Physician and Patient, serves as a council member for the American Association of Palliative and Hospice Medicine, and is a diplomate on the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

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