Associate Physician, Palliative Care Service, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of International Programs, Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care
| 1979 | B.A., Columbia University |
| 1981 | Middle Exam in Philosophy, Free University, Berlin, Germany |
| 1991 | PhD in Philosophy, Yale University Graduate School |
| 1992 | MD, Yale University School of Medicine |
| 1992-1995 | Intern and Resident in Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital |
| 1995-1998 | Fellowships in General Internal Medicine and Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School (HMS) |
| 1997-2009 | Instructor in Medicine, HMS |
| 1998-2002 | Director, Fellowship Program in Palliative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) |
| 1998-2003 | Associate Director, Palliative Care Service, MGH |
| 1998-2011 | Instructor in Global Health & Social Medicine, HMS |
| 1998- | Attending Physician, Dept of Medicine, MGH |
| 2001-2006 | Director, Vietnam-CDC-HMS AIDS Partnership |
| 2005- | Director of International Programs, Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care |
| 2008- | Co-Chair, Edwin Cassem Optimum Care Committee (clinical ethics committee), MGH |
| 2009-2013 | Associate Faculty Member, Institute of Palliative Medicine, San Diego, CA |
| 2009- | Assistant Professor of Medicine, HMS |
| 2011- | Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS |
Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD, has been teaching in Vietnam since 2001 when he founded the Vietnam-CDC-Harvard Medical School AIDS Partnership (VCHAP) to provide training and technical assistance in HIV/AIDS treatment to Vietnam's physicians and nurses, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, and thereby to help enable introduction and scale-up of anti-retroviral therapy.
As Director of International Programs at the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care since 2005, Dr. Krakauer has assisted Vietnam's Ministry of Health and major cancer centers and general hospitals to integrate pain relief and palliative care into the country's healthcare system. He and his team have trained hundreds of Vietnamese clinicians in pain relief and palliative care and provided technical assistance with palliative care policy development, accessibility of morphine and other essential palliative medicines, and implementation of clinical programs. The curricula in palliative medicine that he created for developing countries have been translated into Vietnamese and Russian, and adapted for use in East Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
As a faculty member of the International Palliative Care Leadership Development Initiative, he is mentoring emerging leaders in palliative care in Vietnam and Bangladesh, and he also mentors colleagues in Bangladesh and Nepal to improve access to pain relief. In addition, he works with Partners In Health (PIH), a charitable organization based in Boston, to integrate pain relief and palliative care into PIH's pioneering cancer treatment programs for the rural poor in Rwanda, Malawi, and Haiti.
His current research focuses on clinical and policy aspects of palliative care for poor and medically underserved populations around the world, clinical and ethical issues in end-of-life care, and clinical education in Vietnam.