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Appendix G: Committee Biographies
Pages 573-584

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From page 573...
... He is currently founding director of the Stanford Distinguished Careers College and David and Susan Heckerman professor of pediatrics and of microbiology and immunology at Stanford. Before joining Stanford, he was physician-in-chief of Children's Hospital in Boston and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School from 1996 to 2001.
From page 574...
... In addition to serving as a New York State Delegate to the White House Conference on Aging, she served as a member of the Review Committee of the National Quality Forum's "Framework and Preferred Practices for a Palliative and Hospice Care Quality" project and the American Board of Internal Medicine's Primary Palliative Care Committee, and chaired the BlueCross and BlueShield Association's National Medical Management Forum. She chairs New York's MOLST Statewide Implementation Team, serves as eMOLST program director, and is a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York's Ethics Committee.
From page 575...
... , the Sisters of Mercy Health Care System, and Volunteers of America. He is currently a board member of ArchCare, the continuing care community of the Archdiocese of New York, and immediate past chair and board member of the National Council on Aging.
From page 576...
... She conducted research, developed policy positions, and supported advocacy efforts regarding elder abuse, guardianship, advance care planning, end-of-life care, probate, vot
From page 577...
... She was the founding director of the University of Colorado Hospital Palliative Care Consult Service. She is board certified in internal medicine, geriatrics, and hospice and palliative medicine.
From page 578...
... She is also co-director of the Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center; Vice-Chair for Public Policy and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine; Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics; and was the founder and Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute from 1997-2011, all at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
From page 579...
... He is also co-chair of the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) , a national organization dedicated to reforming advanced illness care by empowering consumers, changing the health care delivery system, improving public policies, and enhancing provider capacity.
From page 580...
... Her career spans more than four decades in both Medicare and Medicaid health policy, as well as direct clinical work. She maintains a private practice as a clinical social worker serving Medicare beneficiaries.
From page 581...
... Among other professional memberships and experiences, she has contributed her expertise by serving on the Leadership Council of the National Council on Aging, the Executive Committee and National Board of the American Society on Aging, and the Advisory Board and Mentor Panel of the Practice Change Fellows. She is a founding member of the national Evidence Based Leadership Council and was founding chair of the National Chronic Care Consortium.
From page 582...
... from the University of California, San Diego, and completed internal medicine residency training at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He completed his fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at the Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
From page 583...
... . He was a Project on Death in America faculty scholar; serves on the Advisory Council for the National Institute of Nursing Research; chairs the Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program Advisory Committee; and is a founding director of VitalTalk, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the culture of communication throughout the medical community.
From page 584...
... 584 DYING IN AMERICA practice and teaching of effective healthcare communication and related skills." He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine, and he completed both his residency in internal medicine and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholar fellowship at UCSF.


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