Michael W. Rabow, MD

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, 1983-1987, B.A., summa cum laude (Anthropology)
Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, MA, 1987-1988, No degree sought
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 1989-1993, M.D., (Medicine)
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 1993-1994, Primary Care Internal Medicine Internship
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 1994-1996, Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 1996-1997, Clinician-Educator Fellowship in General Internal Medicine

• 1997-2003
  Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2003-present
  Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

• 1983-1984
  Harvard College Scholarship, Harvard University
• 1985-1986
  John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard University
• 1986-1987
  John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard University
• 1987
  Summa cum laude, Harvard University
• 1993
  Alpha Omega Alpha, University of California, San Francisco
• 2002-2004
  Project on Death in America Faculty Scholar, Soros Foundation

• Rabow MW, McPhee SJ. Beyond breaking bad news: Helping Patients Who Suffer. Western Journal of Medicine. 1999;171:260-263.
• Rabow MW, Hardie GE, Fair JM, McPhee SJ. An evaluation of end-of-life care content in 50 textbooks from multiple specialties. JAMA. 2000;283:771-778.
• Rabow MW. What cancer patients want to know: National strategies and individual needs. Western Journal of Medicine. 2000;173:31-32.
• Rabow MW, Fair JM, Hardie GE, McPhee SJ. An evaluation of end-of-life care content in leading neurology textbooks. Neurology. 2000;55:893-894.
• Rabow MW, McPhee SJ. Doctoring to heal: fostering well-being among physicians through personal reflection. Western Journal of Medicine. 2000;174;66-69.
• Lo B, Ruston D, Kates LW, Arnold R, Cohen C, Faber-Langendoen K, Puchalski C, Pantilat SZ, Quill TR, Rabow MW, Schreiber S, Sulmasy DP, Tulsky J. Discussing religious and spiritual issues at the end of life: a practical guide for physicians. JAMA. 2002;287:749-754.
• Rabow MW, Petersen JA, Schanche K. Volunteer patient advocacy: an interdisciplinary course on attending to patients at the end of life. J Palliat Med. 2002;5:754-755.
• Rabow MW, Petersen JJ, Schanche K, Dibble SL, McPhee SJ. The Comprehensive Care Team: a description of a controlled trial of care at the beginning of the end of life. J Palliat Med. 2003;6:489-499.
• Lo B, Kates LW, Ruston D, Arnold RM, Cohen CB, Puchalski CM, Pantilat SZ, Rabow MW, Schreiber S, Tulsky J. Responding to requests regarding prayer and religious ceremonies by patients near the end of life and their families. J Palliat Med. 2003;6:409-415.
• Bookwalter TC, Rabow MW, McPhee SJ. Content on end-of-life care in major pharmacy textbooks. Am J Health-Syst Pharmacy. 2003;60:1246-50.
• Rabow MW, Schanche K, Petersen JJ, Dibble SL, McPhee SJ. Patient perceptions of an outpatient palliative care intervention: "It had been on my mind before, but I did not know how to start talking about death." J Pain Symptom Mgmt. 2003;26:1010-1015.
• Rabow, MW. Drawing on experience: physician artwork in a course on professional development. Med Educ. 2003;37:1040-1041.
• Rabow MW, Dibble SL, Pantilat SZ, McPhee SJ. The Comprehensive Care Team: a controlled trial of outpatient palliative medicine consultation. Arch Intern Med. 2004;164:83-91.
• Rabow MW, Hauser JM, Adams J. Supporting family caregivers at the end of life: They don't know what they don't know. JAMA. 2004:291;483-491.
• Rabow MW, Dibble SL. Ethnic differences in pain among outpatients with terminal and end-stage chronic illness. Pain Medicine. 2005;6:235-241.
• Remen NR, Rabow MW. The Healer's Art: Professionalism, Service and Mission. Med Educ. 2005;39:1172.
• Pantilat SZ, Rabow MW, Citko J, vonGunten CF, Auerbach AD, Ferris FD. Evaluating the California Hospital Initiative in Palliative Services (CHIPS). Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:227-230.
• Homes SM, Rabow MW, Dibble SL. Screening the soul: communication regarding spiritual concerns among primary care physicians and seriously-ill patients at the beginning of the end of life. Amer J Hospice Palliat Med. 2006;23:25-33.