Speaker: Dr. Gary Pasternak -
Dr. Gary Pasternak is medical director at Mission Hospice and Home Care and co-director of the Mission House, a residential hospice home in San Mateo, CA. He is board certified in hospice and palliative medicine and internal medicine. He completed a palliative care fellowship at the San Diego Hospice in 2010 and has been practicing palliative care full time with Mission Hospice since then. He assisted in the design and implementation of Mission’s policy regarding physician assisted dying as well as Mission’s partnership with Stanford University in teaching palliative/hospice care in the home and at Mission House. He completed chaplaincy training at the Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley in 2008 and enjoys working with hospice multidisciplinary teams.
