Lachlan Forrow

Lachlan Forrow

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Ethics and Palliative Care Programs at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lachlan Forrow

Dr. Lachlan Forrow is Senior Fellow at the HMS Center for Bioethics, President Emeritus of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and Chair of the Advisory Council of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. 

Dr. Forrow serves as a Faculty Associate at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center. He founded and served as longtime Director of both Ethics Programs (1996-2020) and Palliative Care Programs (1998-2016) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and in leadership roles in HMS medical ethics curricula. He is past Board Chair/CEO of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (a 1985 Nobel Peace laureate organization), and actively involved since its 2007 founding with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (a 2017 Nobel Peace laureate organization). Dr. Forrow co-chaired the Massachusetts Expert Panel on End-of-Life Care that released the report Patient-Centered Care and Human Mortality in 2011, and serves as Chair of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Interdisciplinary Advisory Council on Palliative Care and Quality of Life.

 

Current Role

Faculty Fellow