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Rachelle Bernacki

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Title: Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor
Department: Medicine, Geriatrics
Division: Hospitalist
Site(s): Parnassus, VA
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Phone number: 415-476-2223
Degrees: M.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine, University of Washington; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, University of Chicago; completed Harvard Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice; Board certified in Palliative Care as well as Geriatrics
Previous position(s): Fellowship in Medical Ethics, MacClean Center for Medical Ethics; Geriatrics Fellowship, University of Chicago Hospitals; Fellow-in-training chair for the American Geriatrics Society, 2005-06
Clinical interests: Improving care for hospitalized dying patients
Other interests: Rode my bicycle from Seattle, Washington to Washington, DC; volunteered at a high-altitude clinic in Nepal near Mt. Everest.