Sarah MacDuffie is currently a Supportive and Palliative Care physician at Wentworth Douglass Hospital in Dover. She previously served as the medical director at The Edgewood Center in Portsmouth and was responsible for spearheading the palliative care program at Portsmouth Hospital. A native of Maine, Sarah studied medicine at UNECOM and did her internship at the same hospital in Portland where she was born. After finishing up a family medicine residency at UMass, she joined a practice in Portsmouth where she loved caring for patients of all ages.

Sarah grew up helping her mother care for her grandmother with dementia. In later years, she helped her father care for her mother who also developed dementia. Both of these experiences helped shape Sarah’s decisions to become a hospice medical director and eventually gain certification in Palliative Medicine. 

When she's not working, she's on her bike or a hike with her husband Blair, working on a quilt, strumming her mandolin, or visiting her two adult sons.

Having one foot in the medical world and another in the caregiver world, Sarah realized how little opportunity patients and families have to learn about options and care for those with significant illness and approaching end-of-life. She is grateful for programs like this to educate her community.