Perry G. Fine, MD

Position: Member, Board of Directors

Perry G. Fine, M.D., completed medical school in 1981 at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He served an internship in 1982 at the Community Hospital of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, CA and completed his residency in 1984 at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City. In addition, Dr. Fine completed a fellowship in 1985 at the Smythe Pain Clinic of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Fine is a Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology of the School of Medicine at the University of Utah, where he serves on the faculty in the Pain Research Center, and is an attending physician in the Pain Management Center. He teaches the first and second-year medical school courses in social medicine and the fourth-year medical school course in medical ethics. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the Society for Arts in Healthcare, and the American Pain Foundation. Dr. Fine serves as the External Strategic Advisor for Capital Hospice in Washington, D.C., and is a consultant to the Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care, based in Albany, NY, developing and educationally supporting self-sustaining models of prehospice palliative care in community settings, as an integrative component of disease management and advanced illness coordinated care. He is very pleased to have been selected to serve as the Chair of the National Initiative on Pain Control for 2003 to 2008.

Dr. Fine is widely published in the fields of pain management and end-of-life care. He serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed medical journals. As a medical avocation, he has worked as a team physician for the University of Utah football team for the last 18 years and was a medical officer for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He is the recipient of the 2007 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Distinguished Hospice Physician Award, and the 2008 American Pain Society John and Emma Bonica Public Service Award.