Nathan Fairman 

Physician
npfairman@ucdavis.edu

Fairman is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UC Davis School of Medicine. 

Dr. Fairman’s clinical expertise lies at the interface of palliative medicine, psychiatry and bioethics – and he is board certified in both General Psychiatry and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He serves as Medical Director of Supportive Oncology and Survivorship at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. In addition, he is the Medical Director of the UC Davis End of Life Option Act program. His clinical service includes work as an attending physician on the inpatient palliative care consult service at the UC Davis Medical Center and in the psycho-oncology clinic at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Fairman also maintains a variety of teaching responsibilities throughout the health system, focused primarily on palliative care, serious illness communication and bioethics. 

Dr. Fairman received his bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College, where he was a National McCabe Scholar. He obtained his medical degree from the UC Davis School of Medicine, followed by a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University, where he was a Zuckerman Fellow. He completed residency training in general psychiatry at UC Davis. Prior to joining the academic faculty, Dr. Fairman was a fellow in palliative care psychiatry at The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice.