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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 145-164

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From page 145...
... Currently he is the principal investigator for Care.Lab, a national initiative funded by the John A Hartford Foundation, to scale up innovations that improve care for serious illness.
From page 146...
... . Her collaborations with the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Association of CriticalCare Nurses to translate ethics guidelines into practice have developed a primary palliative care communication process for frontline clinicians caring for seriously ill patients (2017)
From page 147...
... Mara Buchbinder, Ph.D., is an associate professor of social medicine and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, as well as core faculty in the UNC Center for Bioethics.
From page 148...
... , the UNOS Ethics Committee, the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee, the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee, and several data and safety monitoring boards for National Institutes of Health clinical trials. From 1996 to 2001 he served on the presidentially appointed National Bioethics Advisory Commission.
From page 149...
... Prior to joining Ariadne, Dr. Fromme was the section chief and medical director for palliative care at Oregon Health & Science University, founding its outpatient palliative care program and developing a research program in patient-reported outcomes, hospice and palliative care health service research, and physician orders for lifesustaining treatment.
From page 150...
... She is particularly interested in the role and interaction of values in decision making at different levels in the health system and in developing evidence-informed and ethically grounded approaches to today's wicked health problems, such as resource allocation, infectious disease outbreaks, complex chronic disease, and health equity locally and globally. Dr. Gibson has served on government and policy advisory committees related to Ebola preparedness and response, critical care triage, drug funding and supply, organ transplantation, pandemic planning, public health surveillance, and health system integration.
From page 151...
... She is currently the clinical section chief of palliative care in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health. She is the founding medical director of the adult palliative care program and co-chair of the ethics committee at Stanford Health Care, and she co-authored Stanford's policy on participation in California's End of Life Option Act.
From page 152...
... Dr. Jones has received national awards for her work in oncology and palliative care, including the 2014 American Psychosocial Oncology Society Outstanding Training and Education Award, the 2013 Social Worker of the Year from the Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers, and the 2009 Project on Death in America Social Work Leadership Award.
From page 153...
... from the University of Chicago, and he trained in adult psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Kim combines philosophical, clinical, and empirical research approaches to address a variety of ethical issues (ethical issues in pragmatic clinical trials, assessment of decision-making capacity, surrogate consent for incapacitated patients, theory and practice of informed consent, and physician-assisted death)
From page 154...
... Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.S., is the director of the Center for Elder Care and Advanced Illness at the Altarum Institute. She is a geriatrician, hospice physician, health services researcher, quality improvement advisor, and policy advocate who has focused on shaping American health care so that every person can count on living comfortably and meaningfully through the period of serious illness and disability in the last years of life, at a sustainable cost to the community.
From page 155...
... Raffin Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics and a professor of pediatrics and medicine at Stanford University, where he is the director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and co-chair of the Ethics Committee for the Stanford Hospital. He is the former president of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors and is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Bioethics.
From page 156...
... The main themes of this research line are palliative care, advance care planning, and end-of-life decisions. Furthermore, she is the chair of the Vrije Universiteit Medical Center Expertise Center for Palliative Care, in which all care, educational, and research activities in the field of palliative care come together.
From page 157...
... . He has also published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers, authored two dozen book chapters, and co-edited with colleagues at UCSF two textbooks on palliative care titled Care at the Close of Life and Hospital-Based Palliative Medicine.
From page 158...
... Dr. Payne created and directed a community-based palliative care program, the Harlem Palliative Care Network, to address the needs of medically underserved patients and families in New York City.
From page 159...
... Thaddeus Pope, J.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Health Law Institute and a professor of law at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is also an adjunct professor with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology, an adjunct associate professor with the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College, and a visiting professor of medical jurisprudence at St.
From page 160...
... Dr. Quill is a fellow in the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, a master in the American College of Physicians, and an American Board of Medical Specialties–certified palliative care consultant.
From page 161...
... Dr. Silva has also served on the board of directors for the Howard University Medical Alumni Association, the National Association of Veterans Affairs Physicians, the American Medical Women's Association, and the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine.
From page 162...
... She is currently leading a study on patient and family experiences with the California End of Life Option Act. As the director of the Metrics, Quality & Evaluation Core for the Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, she led the development and implementation of a metrics reporting system to support all four UW Medicine hospitals in achieving certification in specialty palliative care from the Joint Commission in spring 2016.
From page 163...
... In July 2014 Dr. Strouse assumed the role of chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine Test Committee responsible for writing the certifying exam for all North American physician candidates for the American Board of Medical Specialties subspecialty of hospice and palliative medicine. In 2010 he was appointed associate editor of the Journal of Supportive Oncology and is now the editor of the Journal of Community and Supportive Oncology; in 2017 he became an associate editor of the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
From page 164...
... He has led projects on a wide variety of issues related to ethics and professionalism, including understanding and measuring the ethical climate of health care organizations and systems; ethics and quality improvement; communication, team-based care, and engaging patients as members of the team; defining physician professionalism; public health and disaster ethics; medicine and the Holocaust; and inequities in health and health care. He has delivered more than two dozen named lectures and visiting professorships nationally and internationally and is the author of more than 140 published articles, chapters, and essays; the co-editor of several books; and the co-author of a book on fairness in health care benefit design.


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