Ira Byock

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Dr. Ira Byock
Dr. Ira Byock

Ira Byock is a physician specializing in hospice care. Byock has authored the 1997 book Dying Well, and also the 2004 book The Four Things That Matter Most. Byock is currently the Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, and the director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national grant program.

[edit] Awards and recognitions

  • Person of the Year, National Hospice Organization (1995)
  • Natalie Davis Spingarn Writers Award, National Coalition of Cancer Survivorship (2000)
  • Roger Bone Memorial Lecture Award, American College of CHEST Physicians (2003)

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