Christine Seel Ritchie, M.D., MSPH
Christine Seel Ritchie is the Kenneth L. Minaker, MD Endowed Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. She is the Director of the Center for Aging and Serious Illness in the MGH Mongan Institute and the Research Director within the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine. She also serves as director of the MGH Dementia Care Collaborative and associate faculty at Ariadne Labs. She is a board-certified geriatrician and palliative care physician with long-standing experience in research and clinical care at the intersection of aging and serious illness.
Dr. Ritchie is co-chair of the NINR-funded Palliative Care Research Cooperative and past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She serves as a member of the National Quality Forum (NQF) Standing Committee for Palliative and End of Life Care, and the Exclusions Committee of the National Center for Quality Assurance. She, with colleagues at Johns Hopkins and the University of California San Francisco, developed a quality of care framework and quality indicators for home-based medical care. She also creates and adapts care delivery models for persons with dementia that weaves together the strengths of geriatrics, palliative care, geriatric psychiatry and neurology. Dr. Ritchie has longstanding funding from NIH and foundations and is the author/co-author of over 250 publications. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Palliative Medicine National Leadership Award and the Coalition for Compassionate Care’s Compassionate Care Innovator Award.
