Joshua Lakin, MD*
Palliative Care Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Joshua Lakin serves as the clinical lead for the Serious Illness Care Program at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, both in primary care and general inpatient medicine settings. His recent research focuses on the implementation of the program in primary care. He plays a key role in the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs to develop and evaluate a standardized approach for promoting clinicians to conduct discussions about end-of-life values and goals with seriously ill patients and their families.