Ira Byock joins MEA editorial advisory board
Ira M. Byock, MD, a family physician who has worked in hospice and care of the dying for 17 years, has joined the editorial advisory board of Medical Ethics Advisor.
Byock serves as the director of a Missoula, MT-based Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Program Office, Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care, and as president of the Gainesville, FL-based American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is the associate medical director of Hospice of Partners in Home Care, director of the Palliative Care Service, and president of the Missoula Demonstration Project: The Quality of Life’s End, all in Missoula.
The author of numerous publications and journal articles, Byock recently published Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life, an anthology of personal stories of patients and families as they experience dying.
Byock previously served as a member of the ethics committees of the Gainesville, FL-based Academy of Hospice Physicians (AHP, now the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine) and the National Hospice Organization (NHO) in Arlington, VA.
He chaired the AHP ethics committee and the NHO subcommittee on do-not-resuscitate issues and guidelines. He also is a research professor in the department of philosophy and a faculty member of the Practical Ethics Center at the University of Montana in Missoula.
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