1. Diane E. Meier ( ) is director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and a professor in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, both at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City.
2. Anthony L. Back is a professor in the Department of Medicine and codirector of the Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence at the University of Washington, cofounder of Vitaltalk (a nonprofit communication skills training organization), and an affiliate member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, all in Seattle.
3. Amy Berman is a senior program officer at the John A. Hartford Foundation, in New York City.
4. Susan D. Block is director of the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs and a professor of psychiatry and medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, Massachusetts.
5. Janet M. Corrigan is chief program officer for patient care at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, in Palo Alto, California.
6. R. Sean Morrison is director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and a professor in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City.