UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

Michael W. Rabow, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF

CONTACT

(415) 353-7300 (appts)
(415) 353-7901 (fax)

Box 1732, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-1732

additional websites:

UCSF Physician Referral Directory

EDUCATION

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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

HONORS & AWARDS

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

Teaching Honors:

1998

Nominated, UCSF Medical School Class Teaching Award

1998

Nominated, UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Residency Teaching Award

1999

Nominated, Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching

1999

UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Residency Teaching Award

2000

Nominated, Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching

2000

Robert H. Crede Award for Excellence in Teaching

2002-03

UCSF Teaching Scholars Program

2002

David E. Rogers Junior Faculty Education Award, Society of General Internal Medicine

2004

Outstanding Lecture Award from the UCSF Class of 2006

2004

Nominated, Inspirational Teacher Award from the UCSF Class of 2006

2004-06

UCSF Academy of Medical Educators/Office of Educational Research and Development Fellowship in Medical Education Research

2004

Selected as a member of the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators

2005

California Clinician-Educator Award, California Region Society of General Internal Medicine

2005

Nominated, Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching

Research Honors:

2003

Nominated, Robert H. Crede Award for Clinical Research

2004

Best Research Poster, AAMC Western Regional GEA/GSA Annual Conference

2004

Fellowship in Medical Education Research, UCSF Office of Educational Research and Development and the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators

Clinical Honors:

1998

Highest Rating, Overall Performance, Brown & Toland Medical Group

2000

Nominated, Robert H. Crede Award for Clinical Care

Service Honors:

2003

UCSF Medical Center Thanks Star Award

2003

UCSF Medical Center Thanks Star Award

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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: ÒIt had been on my mind before, but I did not know how to start talking about deathÉÓ 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: ÒThey donÕt know what they donÕt know.Ó 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 HealerÕs 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 Òbeginning of the end of life.Ó Amer J Hospice Palliat Med. 2006;23:25-33.

3/28/06

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