Dr. Lakin works an attending physician on the inpatient palliative care consult service and intensive palliative care unit at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and serves as the Director for the KidneyPal palliative care service dedicated to patients with advanced kidney disease. In these clinical roles, he works as part of an interprofessional team providing palliative care to hospitalized patients across a wide variety of services. In addition to his clinical teaching activities, he currently teaches at the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care in multiple courses.
In terms of research pursuits, Dr. Lakin is interested in working to build scalable and measurable models for delivering palliative care, especially high-quality serious illness communication. He spends his time primarily at the intersection of clinical palliative care and systems work in the Population Health Management and nephrology spaces. He has been leading programs aimed at improving communication around serious illness in systems around the world.
