Matthew Bartek

Matt Bartek grew up in the Boston area and received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, studying physics and philosophy. He developed a background in health policy working in Senator Ted Kennedy's Health Office and then at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) in Washington, DC. He then attended medical school at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, MA during which he served as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow as a manager for a free clinic. Eager to gain further research training, he took off two years in the middle of medical school and spent a year in Lima, Peru as a T-32 Funded Fogarty Fellow and then obtained a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He completed general surgery residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA and spent two years as a T-32 Funded Fellow at the Surgical Outcomes Research Center. He aims to bridge surgery and palliative care to find ways at ensuring that surgical decision-making is performed with patient and family goals at the center of the process.