Laurel Kilpatrick, MD FAAHPM

Dr. Laurel Kilpatrick is a practicing palliative care physician and has served as Director of the Division of Supportive Palliative Care at Scott & White Medical Center since 2015. As a clinician educator, she has focused on teaching communication skills, basic palliative care principles and advance care planning to healthcare professionals in all stages of training.  She was selected as a John A Hartford Foundation ‘Hartford Center of Excellence Scholar’ 2012-2014 and was 1 of 10 leaders selected nationally for the Practice Change Leaders Program in 2016 (also a John A. Hartford Foundation program). She has served as the inaugural Program Director for the Tom & Carly Burdette Memorial Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship from 2021-2023. She is the Co-Director for the BSWH Serious Illness Conversation & Care Planning Program (SICP) and is the current Chair of the Women Leaders in Medicine Executive Committee.


Dr. Kilpatrick's areas of expertise include cancer, heart failure, and advanced lung, liver, kidney and neurologic conditions.

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