1. Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, director of The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
2. Freelance health care journalist based in Oakland, California, and a consultant to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Center to Advance Palliative Care.