Shana Wierchowski is an instructor in medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and the director of inpatient services for palliative medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She works with seriously ill patients and their care partners in the acute hospital setting as a consultant and at her hospital’s inpatient palliative unit. She is passionate about disseminating primary palliative skills to the larger healthcare community within the institution and throughout the region, especially around educational efforts focused on complex symptom management and advanced care planning; this includes work in opioid stewardship. Wierchowski is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
