Todd Rinehart

Todd Rinehart, LICSW, APHSW-C is the Social Work Director, with the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine and certified as an Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Worker. His interest in end of life care began as a volunteer with the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in NYC during the height of the AIDS epidemic. That experience changed the direction of his life and led him to earning his Master of Social Work degree at New York University. Since graduating in 2000 he has spent his social work career working in HIV/AIDS, hospice and palliative care.

Todd has been a member of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care faculty since 2008. He also serves on the faculty of the Harvard Palliative Care Fellowship Program. Todd is one of the course planners for Practical Aspects of Palliative Care (PAPC) and serves on the steering committee for the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care. Todd is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network and the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

For the past decade, Todd has volunteered as a counselor for Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp for children who have experienced the death of a parent, sibling, or guardian. Todd is an avid theatre goer and dabbles in community theatre.

Educational and professional experience

• 1980 BFA, University of Tulsa
• 1989 BA, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
• 2000 MSW, New York University
• 2000 Hospice of New York, NYC, Clinical Social Worker
• 2001 The Actor’s Fund of America, NYC, Clinical Social Worker in the HIV/AIDS Initiative
• 2002 Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC, Clinical Social Worker with Jacob Perlow Hospice
• 2002-'06 Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, General Medicine Clinical Social Worker
• 2006- Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, Social Work Director
• 2008 Post Graduate End of Life Care Certificate Program for Social Work,Smith College
• 2008 Kenneth B. Schwartz Fellowship in Pastoral Care, MGH
• 2008 Clinical Scholar, MGH Clinical Recognition Program