Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows learn and practice in a variety of settings, including acute hospital care, home-based  hospice care, outpatient medicine and long-term care.

palliative team

Training Sites

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Faculty

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows work alongside and learn from MU Health Care’s experienced, multidisciplinary palliative care team, which includes nationally recognized faculty members from Family Medicine as well as other clinical departments throughout the School of Medicine.  

FACULTY:

Thomas Andrews, MD
Geriatric Medicine

Kevin Craig, MD, MSPH
Family and Community Medicine

Erik Lindbloom, MD, MSPH
Family and Community Medicine

David Mehr, MD, MS
Family and Community Medicine

Brittany McCarty, DO
Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Nitish Nandu, MD
Internal Medicine

Ashish Sarangi, MD
Geriatric Psychiatry

Leticia Alaniz Staner, MD
Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Carl Tunink, MD
Family and Community Medicine

Steven Zweig, MD, MSPH
Family and Community Medicine

RESEARCH FACULTY:

Abigail Rolbiecki, PhD, MSW, MPH
Family and Community Medicine