Gregory Gramelspacher, MD

Dr. Gregory P. Gramelspacher is a Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). Dr. Gramelspacher received his undergraduate degree in government and international relations from the University of Notre Dame and his medical degree from Indiana University. Following an internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan, Dr. Gramelspacher served for two years with the National Health Service Corps in Appalachia. He then completed a fellowship in medical ethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He joined the Department of Medicine at Indiana University in 1989.

In addition to founding the Program in Medical Ethics at IUSM, Dr. Gramelspacher established the Palliative Care Program at Wishard Health Services in 1999. He also established the Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Indiana University School of Medicine in 2005. His interests include medical professionalism and the doctor-patient relationship, palliative care, health care for the underserved, addiction medicine and global health. Dr. Gramelspacher served as the team leader of the IU-Kenya program in Eldoret, Kenya from 1996 to 1997. In July 2017, he stepped down as the Director of the Palliative Care Program at Eskenazi Health in order to devote his clinical time to expand addiction medicine services.