Lucas Puttock

Biography

Lucas Puttock, DO, FAAP, FACP, is an HS Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine & Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine at UC Irvine Health, School of Medicine. He completed his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, followed by an Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at Louisiana State University New Orleans and a fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Puttock is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Puttock's clinical and scholarly work focuses on palliative care across the lifespan. His has examined racial disparities in palliative care at end-of-life in children with advanced heart disease in the South, resulting in a publication in the Journal of Pediatrics. He has also contributed to the field through a book chapter on recognition and management of transplant-related pain issues in hematopoietic transplantation and cell therapy.

At UC Irvine, Dr. Puttock serves as Physician Lead for the Orange Campus Palliative Care Clinic and holds multiple leadership roles, including serving as the Palliative Care physician representative with the Advanced Heart Failure and Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Program. He is an active educator, delivering regular lectures to palliative care, pain medicine, family medicine, and neurology trainees on topics within palliative care including approach to pain management and pediatric palliative care. Dr. Puttock is fluent in both English and Japanese.

Education

• DO, Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, 2015
• BS in Human Biology, University of California, San Diego, 2009

Distinctions

• Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)
• Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP)