1. Joanne Spetz ( ) is a professor of economics at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Healthforce Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
2. Nancy Dudley is a VA Quality Scholars fellow with the UCSF Department of Geriatrics and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
3. Laura Trupin is an epidemiologist in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.
4. Maggie Rogers is senior research associate at the Center to Advance Palliative Care, in New York City.
5. Diane E. Meier is the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and a professor in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City.
6. Tamara Dumanovsky is a vice president for research and analytics at the Center to Advance Palliative Care.