Physician
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dr. Richard Leiter is a palliative care physician, writer, and researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical degree and an MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed Internal Medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center before matriculating to the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship Program. He currently serves as the Director of the Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service and founded the Department of Supportive Oncology Writing Core. Dr. Leiter writes about the intersection of palliative care and ethics, and the emotional experience of working in the field. His writing has been published in the New York Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, STATNews, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Cell, among others. Along with Dr. Alexis Drutchas and Rachel Rusch, LCSW, he is a co-founder of The Palliative Story Exchange, a storytelling intervention that seeks to enhance connection and foster meaning-making among healthcare professionals. In 2024, Dr. Leiter was named as an Emerging Leader in Hospice and Palliative Medicine by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and was also the recipient of a Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Foundation Physician Award.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
10:00am - 11:00am PST
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