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Martha L. Twaddle, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
Chief Medical Officer
A nationally recognized expert in hospice and palliative medicine, Dr. Twaddle has served as a medical director of Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter since 1989 and became chief medical officer of the organization in 2004. She created the Midwest Hospice and Palliative Medicine Integrated Fellowship,? serving as program director from 2001 to 2010 and guiding the program to formal recognition and accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (2009). The fellowship is now the Rush University Fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and Dr. Twaddle continues as associate program director.
Dr. Twaddle’s contributions to advancing the field of hospice and palliative medicine have been significant, thus she has been recognized with the following academic distinctions:
- Associate Program Director for Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Rush University Medical Center (February 2010 – present)
- Fellow, The Institute of Medicine of Chicago (2007 – present)
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College (2006 – present)
- Lecturer, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (2006 – present)
- Associate Member, Lurie Cancer Center, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (2005 – present)
- Fellow, AAHPM (2002 – present)
- Fellow, American College of Physicians (2001 – present)
- Master Facilitator, Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care Project (1999 – present)
- Chair, Ethics Committee, Skokie Hospital, NorthShore University HealthSystem (2003 – January 2010)
- Past President, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) (2002 –2003)
- Program Director for Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Rush University Medical Center (2001 – January 2010)
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (1998 – 2006)
In January 2008, Dr. Twaddle was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). She is on the Advisory Board and previously served on the Steering Committee for the National Consensus Project for Palliative Care, which published “Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care” in 2004. She also serves on the AAHPM Medical Directors Course Curriculum as well as the Education and Training Strategic Coordinating committees.
Dr. Twaddle recently was on the Advisory Board of the Medicare Health Support Program and on the Palliative Care Steering Committee for the University HealthSystem Consortium. She is a member of the Clinical Advisory Board of the Cancer Wellness Center in Northbrook, Illinois and an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. She served on the NHPCO Public Policy Committee from 2003 to 2005 and the National Institute of Health Pain and Palliative Care Advisory Board from 2001 to 2003.
In 2006, Dr. Twaddle was honored in the naming of the first Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter endowed chair, the Martha L. Twaddle, MD, Chair of Palliative Medicine. Dr. Twaddle is the first physician to occupy the chair, which is the highest honor the organization can bestow upon a physician. She was the inaugural recipient of the AAHPM Josefina B. Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician Award in 2005 and received the Stephen A. Weisman Humanitarian Award for Cancer Care in 2001 from the Cancer Wellness Center. Dr. Twaddle also was the recipient of a 2008 Outstanding Alumni Award from the Purdue University College of Science.
After graduating summa cum laude from Purdue University, Dr. Twaddle received her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and completed a residency in internal medicine through Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine at Evanston Hospital, where she was also chief resident. She was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in September 1988 and the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in July 1999 and 2006.
Dr. Twaddle is active in research, speaks regularly to local and national groups, and has been published extensively in peer-reviewed articles and other publications on the importance and benefits of hospice and palliative medicine. She is a senior attending physician at NorthShore University HealthSystem and attending staff at Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital, Northwest Community Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
*A collaborative effort of Rush University Medical Center, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County and Midwest Palliative & Hospice CareCenter.
Updated 2/17/2010
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