Clinical Professor
Director, Inpatient Services, Department of Family Medicine

Medical/Graduate School:

• MD, University of Minnesota
• MSPH, University of Iowa

Residency:
University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

Special Qualifications:

• CAQ in Geriatrics
• Board Certified, Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Awards:
2007 Michael J. Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service

Clinical Interests:
Russian health care, psychosocial aspects of disease, doctor/patient communication, end-of-life care, hospitalist medicine

Research Interests:
International collaborative research, end-of-life care

Personal Interests:
Athletics (you name it and I do it), community activism

E-mail: richard-dobyns@uiowa.edu

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