Betsy MacGregor M.D.

Dr. Betsy MacGregor has a BA from Wellesley College, a Masters of Science in Neurobiology from New York University Graduate School, and an MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Over nearly three decades, she trained and worked as a pediatrician and adolescent specialist at Beth Israel Medical Center, a major academic hospital in New York City. There she also founded and directed the Pediatric Pain Management Program and the hospital-wide Program for Humanistic and Complementary Health Care. In addition, as a George Soros Faculty Scholar with the Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America, she designed and directed a three-year research project entitled Dying and the Inner Life, aimed at learning from people with terminal illness about what it means to face the reality of one's own dying.

Her book, In Awe of Being Human: A Doctor's Stories from the Edge of Life and Death, was awarded a Gold Medal by the Independent Publisher 2014 Living Now Book Award in the Mind-Body-Spirit category and designated as "one of the three outstanding books of the year" that "help readers attain healthier, more fulfilling and productive lives."

Dr. MacGregor has conducted numerous educational programs and workshops on patient-centered care for health care professionals around the psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of health, healing and end-of-life and has spoken widely on these topics to the general public. Now retired from medical practice, she lives with her husband, Charles Terry, on Whidbey Island where she is active as a writer, speaker, and founding Board Member of Enso House, a local hospice residence that provides compassionate, holistic care for terminally ill patients and their families. She is also a staff member for the Bravewell Fellows Integrative Medicine Program and has served as an integrative medicine advisor with the Bravewell Collaborative, a working group of philanthropists and health care leaders dedicated to bringing the principles and practices of integrative medicine into mainstream health care and medical education.

Learn more about Dr. MacGregor on her website, www.betsymacgregor.com