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Hospice director takes position at American University in Iraq
Thomas Hallahan’s departure comes as Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard becomes Medicare-certified.
Tom Hallahan is leaving as executive director of Hospice of Martha s Vineyard to take a university job in Iraq. Jeremy Driesen
After five years heading Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard, executive director Thomas Hallahan is starting the next chapter of his life halfway across the world, as an associate provost at the newly established American University of Iraq, Baghdad (AUIB).
Iraq will be the seventh country Hallahan has lived or worked in since 2012, when he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Jordan in Amman. Hallahan’s time in Amman was life-changing for himself and his son, and inspired a passion for the region.
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Thomas Hallahan, executive director at Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard for nearly the past five years, announced this week that he will step down in early May for the job of associate provost at the new American University of Iraq Baghdad.
“Iraq will be the seventh [Middle Eastern] country I’ve lived and worked in,” said Mr. Hallahan, a trained audiologist and health scholar who also worked in South Africa and Cambodia during the decade and a half before he started at hospice in May 2016.
A Fulbright scholarship to teach at the University of Jordan, Amman was his first Middle East posting, in 2012. He went on to work in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Kuwait, among other countries, generally in the fields of health care education and advocacy for people with disabilities.