AmyRakMD(She/Her)

Addiction Medicine, Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Hospital Medicine/Hospitalist

Physician

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Board certified in internal medicine and hospice and palliative medicine and awaiting board certification in Addiction Medicine. I've worked as a palliative care and hospice physician as well as a hospitalist utilizing my palliative care skills to provide the best possible care to patients while practicing high acuity inpatient medicine. Teaching fellows, residents, and medical students is one of the best parts of being a doctor.

Ohio State University HospitalFellowship, Addiction Medicine, 2022 - 2023
Riverside Methodist Hospitals (OhioHealth)Fellowship, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, 2019 - 2020
OhioHealth/Riverside Methodist HospitalFellowship, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2017 - 2018
Akron General Medical Center/NEOMEDResidency, Internal Medicine, 2014 - 2017
American University of the Caribbean School of MedicineClass of 2013
John Carroll UniversityBA, English and Education, Sigma Tau Delta, 1993 - 1997

PubMed

Abstracts/Posters

Resetting the Receptors: A case report using ketamine to reduce opioid requirements and improve pain.
Rak A, Malone N, Murphy C., European Association of Palliative Care, 5/2020
Approach with Referring Physicians to Improve Hospice LOS.
Rak A; Randich A; Seidensticker L; Yahner M, Haller N, von Gunten CF, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine., Boston, MA, 3/2018
G. Cryptococcal Meningitis in an Asplenic Patient.
Thind, K., Rak, A., Bollin, G., Northeast Ohio Medical School Research Day., 6/2017
Therapeutic Phlebotomy Allows Extubation of a COPD Patient.
Rak, A., Murphy, C., American College of Physicians, Ohio, 10/2015
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Lectures

Difficult conversations: tools for the internal medicine resident
OhioHealth Doctor's Hospital - 11/2020
Code Status: how to have difficult conversations with patients.
OhioHealth Doctor's Hospital - 9/2020
Pain Management for the internal medicine resident.
OhioHealth Doctor's Hospital - 1/2020
Ketamine: What, when, how to use it in Palliative Medicine.
OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital - 10/2019
Grand Rounds: Ketamine: An Old Medicine, with New Uses
Ohio State University - 5/2018
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Physician Member, Hospice and Palliative Care, Clinical Guidance Council 2019 - 2021
Physician Member, COPD work team and readmission committee 2019 - 2021
Clinical Lead, Interdisciplinary Team Committee 2019 - 2020