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.
Primary Specialty
Geriatrician
GenderFemale
EducationTexas A&M Health Science Center - School Of Medicine - Temple Campus, University of Alabama - GME (Education)
ServicesLaurel Kilpatrick, MD provides geriatrics services in Temple, TX. A Geriatrician studies the aging process and helps care for elderly patients. A geriatrician is also concerned with treating and preventing dementia.
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