Course Directors

Frank (Andy) A. Bock, D.O.
Dr. F. Andrew (Andy) Bock is a Mayo Clinic Palliative Medicine Consultant with the Division of Community Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care and an Assistant Professor with the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.  He has been board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine since 2004 and is a Hospice Medical Director with Mayo Hospice.  He currently serves as the Palliative Care Fellowship Hospice Rotation Director and previously served as chair of the Palliative Medicine Clinical Practice Committee.  Andy has an interest in physician communication and complex medical decision making including advanced care planning and end of life shared decision making. He continues to practice palliative care in the hospital, subacute and community settings

Molly A. Feely, M.D.
Dr. Feely is triple boarded in family medicine, internal medicine, and palliative medicine.  Her clinical interests lie in palliative care for patients with end stage renal disease and pain management for patients with dual diagnoses of cancer and substance use disorder.  She has been very active in education throughout her career, is a former program director for the hospice palliative medicine fellowship at Mayo and current education chair for palliative medicine.  She has been member of the executive leadership team for the section of palliative medicine at Mayo Clinic Rochester for 10 years.

Jacob J. Strand, M.D.
Dr. Strand is currently Chair, Enterprise Center for Palliative Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Sciences. He sees hospitalized patients with complex symptom needs on the inpatient palliative care services and works closely with patients and their caregivers to manage complications of serious illness, particularly patients with cancer and advanced heart failure in the outpatient Symptom Management, Pain and Quality of Life Clinic at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Dr. Strand's clinical research interests center around the integration of palliative medicine into the care of patients with cancer and advanced cardiac disease, management of complex cancer-related pain and barriers to cancer pain management. He participates in several active national research protocols and lectures nationally and internationally on these topics.