Maddie Katz Professor, Palliative Care Research and Education
UCLA Semel Institute and Department of Psychiatry
Los Angeles, California
Dr. Tom Strouse is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the inaugural holder of the Maddie Katz Chair in Palliative Care Research and Education.
Early in his career he was director of the UCLA Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry Service
and worked closely with the UCLA Liver Transplant Program for more than a decade. He
served from 1994-2007 as director of Cancer Pain Management and Supportive Oncology Services
at the Outpatient Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he developed additional interest and skills in palliative medicine. He was Chief Medical Officer of the UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital from 2007-2021.
His major current clinical and research efforts are directed at the neuromodulation of pain (TMS and Scrambler), building out a Psychedelics Studies Initiative at UCLA and working to advance professional discourse on Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD).
Dr. Strouse is a Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, a Fellow of the Academy of Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry, and an American Psychiatric
Association Distinguished LIfe Fellow. He is board certified in general psychiatry and hospice/palliative medicine.
From 2007-2018 Dr. Strouse served on American Board of Internal Medicine Test Committee responsible for writing the certifying exam for all North American physician candidates for the ABMS subspecialty of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He chaired the exam committee from 2014-2018 and continues to assist ABIM with exam development.
Words Really Matter—When is it Suicide and When is it Something Else?
Thursday, November 9, 2023
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CST