Jennifer Reidy, MD, MS, FAAHPM
Jennifer Reidy, MD, MS, FAAHPM, is Chief of the Division of Palliative Care at UMass Memorial Health Care, and Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Dr. Reidy has a master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism, and formerly worked as a newspaper reporter. She is passionate about language and relationships in medicine. She has developed innovative curricula to teach goals-of-care conversations with patient actors at UMass Medical School, which has become mandatory training for internal medicine and neurology residents, as well as 4th-year medical students.
Dr. Reidy is currently working as physician leader on a statewide initiative of Massachusetts’ medical schools to train students in serious illness conversations as a graduation requirement.
Dr. Reidy is a UMass Quality Scholar, and has led interdisciplinary teams to engage patients and clinicians in advance care planning and create better systems to manage pain in hospitalized patients.