Laura J. Morrison, MD, FAAHPM, FACP

Laura J. Morrison, MD, FAAHPM, FACP is Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and an attending physician on the Yale-New Haven Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Service. She serves as Associate Chief of Palliative Care, Director of Palliative Medicine Education, and Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Yale. Dr. Morrison also directs the Yale Serious Illness Communication Program which aims to strengthen serious illness communication skills among Yale New Haven Hospital clinicians in training and Yale New Haven Hospital System clinical faculty.

Dr. Morrison received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, where she also completed her internship, residency, and chief residency in internal medicine at MetroHealth Medical Center. She completed fellowship training in geriatrics and palliative care at Baylor College of Medicine and spent 9 years on faculty, serving as Education Director for the Supportive and Palliative Care Consultation Service at Houston Methodist Hospital from 2006-2013. She is board-certified in geriatrics and hospice and palliative medicine.

Dr. Morrison has witnessed significant gaps in palliative care training for all clinicians and has become a passionate local and national educational leader. She aims to improve local palliative care training for health professional learners across disciplines and learner levels. She continues to contribute to national work on competencies, milestones, and accreditation standards for hospice and palliative medicine fellowship training. and more recently, to advances in the approach to learner assessment in hospice and palliative medicine and more broadly.