Jerome E. Kurent, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Neurology and Psychiatry;
Vice Chair, South Carolina Center for Gerontology;
South Carolina Medical Association Bioethics Committee.

Phone: (843) 792-4554 or (843) 792-7278
Fax: (843) 792-6783 or 843/792-7285
E-mail: kurentje@musc.edu

Mailing Address:
Medical University of South Carolina
General Internal Medicine/Geriatrics/Hypertension Division
135 Rutledge Avenue
12 th Floor, Rutledge Towers
P.O. Box 250591
Charleston , SC 29425-0591

Education:

1960-64 B.S. Microbiology - Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1964-67 M.S. Microbiology - Ohio State University, Columbus , Ohio
1967-71 M.D., College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
1994-95 M.P.H. Health Care Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts

Internship:
1971-72 Medicine Intern Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore , Maryland

Residency:
1975-78 Resident in Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
1978-79 Senior Assistant Resident in Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

Fellowships:
1972-75 - Research Associate,
National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Infectious Diseases Branch, Bethesda, Maryland.

1979-80 - Clinical Associate in Neuromuscular Diseases
National Institutes of Health,
National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Medical Neurology Branch, Neuromuscular Diseases Section Bethesda , Maryland

1982-84 - Electromyography Staff Fellow
National Institutes of Health,
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Neuromuscular Diseases Unit, Bethesda , Maryland

1993-96 - Geriatric Medicine Fellow
Harvard Medical School, Boston , Massachusetts

Research Interests:

Neurogeriatrics; neuro-palliative care, hospice and end-of-life care

Certifications:

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1983 (Fellow, 1997)
American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2001

Selected Recent Publications:

Kurent JE. Neurological Diseases, Chapter 6. In, A Clinician's Guide to Palliative Care, eds., GJ Taylor and JE Kurent. Blackwell Publishing, Malden , MA , 2003.

Kurent JE. Case Presentation: Medical decision-making in hopeless situations: the long-lost son. In Ethics Rounds, ed. Fins JJ. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 25; 191-192, 2003.

Kurent JE. Commentary: Beyond Ethnicity. In Ethics Rounds, ed. Fins JJ. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 25; 194-195, 2003.

Taylor GJ, Kurent JE, eds. A Clinician's Guide to Palliative Care. Blackwell Publishing, Malden , MA , 2003.

Kurent J. Geriatrics. Ch 18, In Hospitalist Neurology. M. Samuels, ed., Butterworth Heinemann, Newton , MA , 1999.