Dr. Michael Rabow is professor of clinical medicine and urology and associate chief of education and mentoring in the Division of Palliative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Rabow directs a leading outpatient palliative care program – the Symptom Management Service – at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he also serves as the medical director of palliative care and holds the Helen Diller Family Chair in Palliative Care. He was also the founding director of palliative care consultation services at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion and UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital. He is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators.
In 2016, Rabow won the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Project on Death in America (PDIA) Palliative Medicine National Leadership Award. He has also received the Hastings Center Cunniff- Dixon Physician Award and was a scholar with the Open Society Institute’s Project on Death in America.
Board certified in internal medicine and in hospice and palliative medicine, Rabow received his undergraduate degree in anthropology from Harvard College. He earned his medical degree and completed his internal medicine residency and fellowships in general medicine and education research at UCSF.