Frank D. Ferris, MD

Frank D. Ferris, MD is the Executive Director of Palliative Medicine, Research and Education at OhioHealth in Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. Ferris received an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Cooperative Applied Chemistry from the University of Waterloo, Ontario in 1975. He graduated from McMaster Medical School, Hamilton, Ontario in 1981. He pursued postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto. He completed a Fellowship in Pain and Symptom Management at the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre in 1991. He became Board-certified with the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 1998. He was a Faculty Scholar with the Project on Death in America from 1998-2000.

He continues with appointments as:

• Clinical Professor, Voluntary, in the Department of Family & Preventative Medicine, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA.
• Assistant Professor, Adjunct, Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Member, Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

He is also:

• Consultant, International Palliative Care Initiatives, Network Public Health Program, Open Society Institute, New York, New York.
• Member of the Board, International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care
• Co-principal of the Education on Palliative and End-of-life Care (EPEC) Project based at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
• Executive Director, Palliative Medicine, Research and Education, OhioHealth, 800 McConnell Drive, Columbus, OH 43214, (614) 566-5377.

Author / editor of:

• A Model to Guide Hospice Palliative Care: based on National Principles and Norms Of Practice, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA), for which he was awarded a Golden Jubilee Medal of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by the Governor General of Canada, May 2003, and a National Leadership Award by CHPCA in September 2005.
• Co-author of I Can?t Stop Crying: It?s So Hard When Someone You Love Dies with John Martin, published by Key Porter Books.
• Consultant to the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, a teaching member of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada.