Carine Davila

Carine Davila, MD, MPH

Carine Davila, MD, MPH, is a palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital who is passionate about improving access and quality palliative care for historically marginalized populations, particularly Spanish-speaking patients. She serves as the Director for Enrichment and Engagement for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, co-created the palliative care integrated health equity curriculum, and serves as the Assistant Director for Engagement for The Continuum Project, MGH’s serious illness care program. She completed undergraduate studies in public policy at Princeton and received her medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and fellowship at the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship. After her clinical training, Dr. Davila was selected as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Health Policy Leadership at Harvard. She pursued her master’s in public health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

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