Maxwell T. Vergo, MD

  • Palliative Medicine
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Maxwell T. Vergo

Locations

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

About me

Every patient and family living with serious illness deserves to have holistic, dignity conserving, and value-aligned care. Our team specializes in symptom management, emotional coping, and complex medical decision making. Our goal is to have authentic discussions, that help people prepare, and live to the fullest despite their illness. We believe that care is transformed through education.

Specialties

  • Palliative Medicine, Cancer
  • Palliative Medicine

Areas of focus

  • Serious illness conversation training and implementation
  • Creative writing and legacy work
  • Quality improvement to assure patient values are followed in the healthcare system
  • Medical education research
  • Medical oncology

Titles and faculty positions

  • Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth

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Year joined

  • 2012

Department websites

Education

Medical school

  • MD, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 2004

Residency

  • Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 2007

Fellowship

  • Palliative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 2008
  • Medical Oncology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2010

Board certification

  • Internal Medicine
  • Medical Oncology
  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Research and publications

Publications

Clinical trials