Elizabeth Hart, MD, Site Director, Andwell Health Partners

Elizabeth Balsam Hart, MD is a family physician with an additional board certification in hospice and palliative medicine. An honors graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges and Dartmouth Medical School, she completed her family medicine residency and her geriatric medicine fellowship at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Augusta.  She is a graduate of the Practice Change Fellowship (PCF), a national program supported by the Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies to advance excellence in geriatrics leadership. She enjoyed her two-year local PCF project “Cultivating Meaningful Conversations to Guide Care,” which focused on launching the POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) program in Maine. She has been a facilitator and project scholar for the Maine Humanities Council’s Literature and Medicine program, has taught medical humanities, and has a background in medical ethics. She enjoys collaborating with staff across all programs as Hospice Medical Director and Director of Medical Services at Andwell Health Partners.