Khadidjatou Kane

Dr Khadidjatou (Khady) Kane, MD is a palliative care and hospital medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed her medical school and internal medicine residency at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois and a palliative care fellowship through the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship program in Boston. She is board certified in both internal medicine and palliative medicine. Her interests lie in the delivery of quality and compassionate care for patients with serious and life limiting illness as well as educating clinicians locally and around the globe. As a native of Senegal, Khady is also deeply passionate and determined about expanding access to affordable and high- quality palliative care in Senegal and Francophone Africa. She is a member of Global Palliative Care Group at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She currently resides in Boston, MA but travels frequently to Senegal to visit family and collaborate with colleagues in Dakar. She is an avid music aficionado and a self- confessed geo political junkie.

Education

• Fellow , Palliative Care Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital (2016 - 2017)
• Doctor of Medicine (MD) Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine (2001 — 2005)
• International Baccalaureate Armand Hammer United World College (1994 — 1996)
• Maison D'Education Mariama Ba (1989 — 1994)

Companies

• Attending Physician Massachusetts General Hospital (2017)
• Faculty Harvard Medical School (2017)
• Physician fellow Harvard Medical School (2016 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor Northwestern Memorial Hospital (2008 — 2016)