Dr. Muriel Gillick is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. Her scholarly interests are in health care policy and ethical issues near the end of life. In addition to publishing articles in the medical literature, she has written four books for a general audience discussing ethical, medical, and other issues arising in old age. Her most recent book is The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Dr. Gillick graduated from Swarthmore College, obtained her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and completed a residency in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital, with geriatrics training at Boston University School of Medicine. She was previously Physician-in-Chief at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, a teaching nursing home in Boston, and Director of the Harvard Geriatrics Fellowship Program. Dr. Gillick has a clinical practice with Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates providing palliative care consultation.
Select publications:
- Gillick MR. Re-thinking the role of tube feeding in patients with advanced dementia . N Engl J Med 2000; 342: 206-210.
- Gillick MR. Molecular medicine, the Medicare drug benefit, and the need for cost-control. J Amer Geriatr Soc 2006; 54: 1442-1446.
- Gillick MR. The technological imperative and the battle for the hearts of America. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 2007; 50: 276-294.
- Volandes A, Lehmann L, Cook E, Shaykevich S, Abbo A, Gillick M. Using video images of dementia in advance care planning. Arch Intern Med 2007; 167: 828-33.
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