Posts by Mark J. Stoltenberg, MD, MPH, MA
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Special Report: Furthering Palliative Care Training in Latin America
Bethany-Rose Daubman, MD, Mark Stoltenberg, MD, MPH, MA, and colleagues designed an advanced diploma course in palliative care (PC) in Chile that improved participants' PC knowledge, behaviors, and self-efficacy and leveraged the train-the-trainer model to increase PC educational leadership in Latin America.
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Palliative Care in the Caribbean: Short Course Improves Self-assessed Competency
There is an immense shortage of palliative care services across the Caribbean. Massachusetts General Hospital faculty joined Caribbean palliative care leaders from the Jamaica Cancer Care Research Institute to provide a week-long training in palliative medicine to 83 clinicians from throughout the region.
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Palliative Care Embedded into Mass General Emergency Department During COVID-19 Pandemic
A formal program for palliative care engagement in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital has increased seriously ill patients' access to goal-concordant care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biography
Mark Stoltenberg, MD, MPH, MA, received his undergraduate degree in religion from Duke University, and completed his medical degree as well as a Master’s in Bioethics and Healthy Policy from Loyola University Chicago. He then completed his family medicine residency at Northwestern University and his palliative care fellowship at Harvard University. Mark joined the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital immediately following his fellowship in July 2016, at which time he also started a Global Health Leadership Fellowship as well as the Master’s in Public Health degree program at the Harvard School of Public Health. His primary interest is providing comprehensive and compassionate care to the poor and vulnerable facing serious illness—both within our local Boston community and abroad.
Geriatrics & Palliative Care
The Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital offers a wide range of clinical expertise including inpatient services, outpatient programs and home based programs.