Joshua Hauser, MD, is instructor in internal medicine and palliative care, director of the education section, Buehler Center on Aging and an associate physician with the Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care (EPEC) project. Dr. Hauser received his medical degree at Harvard Medical School where he was awarded the Robert Ebert Award in Primary Care and his Master’s degree in Philosophy at Cambridge University in England. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and additional training in health services research and ethics in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Program in medical ethics at the University of Chicago. Clinically, he attends on the palliative care service and general medical service at Northwestern. Dr. Hauser’s current research and teaching activities are in communication and end of life care among patients, family caregivers and professional caregivers; and in professionalism. He coordinates the affinity group in hospice and palliative medicine for the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities and recently co-chaired the precourse selection committee for the Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting. Search for Dr. Hauser's publications on Pubmed