Kenneth Rosenfeld, MD

Section Chief, Palliative Care

VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

UCLA

Dr. Rosenfeld is a graduate of University of California, San Francisco, Medical School. He completed his residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, followed by a fellowship in Geriatrics at the Harvard Division on Aging. He then completed a fellowship in health services research as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, after which he joined the faculty at the VA Greater Los Angeles. At the VA Dr. Rosenfeld founded the Palliative Care Program in 1999 (and is now Section Chief, Palliative Care), and has overseen the program’s growth into a fully integrated palliative care system embodying inpatient, outpatient, and home-based palliative care and hospice services. Dr. Rosenfeld also founded and directs the Cedars Sinai-VA Palliative Care Fellowship Program. Dr. Rosenfeld’s research efforts have focused on implementing and evaluating innovative approaches for palliative care delivery within integrated healthcare systems, using the VA as a model system of care. Recent projects include a randomized, controlled trial of proactive palliative case management in seriously ill patients, as well as program-building projects focusing on incorporating physician prognostication into care delivery.