Contributing Authors

Carla S Alexander, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Palliative Care, Institute of Human Virology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Felicity Aulino
Open Society Institute Project on Death in America New York, NY

Anthony Back, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine/ Oncology, University of Washington Director of Palliative Care, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA

Magda Barini-García, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer, Division of Training & Technical Assistance HIV/AIDS Bureau, HRSA Rockville, MD

Connie J Beehler, MD
Medical Director Hospice at Riverside & Grant Columbus, OH

William Breitbart, MD
Chief, Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY

Gary T Chiodo, DMD
Professor, Department of Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR

J Randall Curtis, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care University of Washington Seattle, WA

Nima Eshghi, JD
Clinical Instructor Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA

Maria Farooqi, MD
Fellow, Palliative Care Program Lombardi Cancer Center Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC

Kathleen M Foley, MD
Director, Open Society Institute Project on Death in America Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, NY

Marshall Forstein, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School The Cambridge Hospital Boston, MA

Suzanne R Garnier, RN, BSN, CWOCN
Health at Home, Home Health Agency of the Community Health Network San Francisco Department of Public Health San Francisco, CA

Robert Greenwald, JD
Senior Clinical Instructor Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA

Rocío Hurtado, MD
Clinical HIV Fellow at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Combined Infectious Disease Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Nancy Hutton, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD

Jane M Ingham, MD, BS, FRACP
Director, Palliative Care Program Lombardi Cancer Center Associate Professor, Departments of Oncology & Medicine Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC

Justina E Ogbuokiri, PharmD, FASCP
Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Xavier University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA

James M Oleske, MD, MPH
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Pediatrics Director, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ

Joseph F O’Neill, MD, MPH
Director, Office of National AIDS Policy The White House Washington, DC

Margaret Perrone, RN, CHPN
Coordinator, Palliative Care Program University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore, MD

Christina M Puchalski, MD
Director, The George Washington Institute of Spirituality and Health Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Elizabeth A Keene Reder, MA
Bereavement Coordinator, Harriet Lane Compassionate Care Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Baltimore, MD

Mimi Rivard, ANP, MSN
Clinical Care Coordinator, HIV Palliative Care Program, Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY

David I Rosenstein, DMD, MPH
Professor & Chair, Department of Community Dentistry, School of Dentistry Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR

Rev Carlos Sandoval, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Miami School of Medicine Director, Courtelis Center for Psychosocial Oncology, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL

Lynn A Jansen, RN, PhD
Assistant Research Professor & Senior Medical Ethicist, The John J Conley Department of Ethics, New York Medical College, New York, NY

Barbara E Johnston, MD
Deputy Director of HIV Medicine St Vincent’s Hospital-Manhattan New York, NY

David J Kouba, MD, PhD
Department of Dermatology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD

Eric L Krakauer, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine & Social Medicine Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Director, Palliative Care Service,Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Harlee S Kutzen, MN, ACRN
HIV Palliative Care Nurse Specialist PalCare - A Palliative Care Program for Persons with Advanced HIV/AIDS Project Director, Louisiana State University Medical Center/HIV Division New Orleans, LA

John F Linder, MSW, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker & Researcher Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at Davis, UCD Cancer Center Davis, CA

Ciro R Martins, MD
Assistant Professor of Dermatology School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

Martha M McKinney, PhD
President Community Health Solutions, Inc Richmond, KY

Frederick J Meyers MD
Professor & Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA

Helen Schietinger, MA, ACRN
HIV Policy Analyst, Domestic & International Program Development & Evaluation Washington, DC

Peter A Selwyn, MD, MPH
Professor & Chairman Department of Family Medicine Director, Palliative Care Program Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, NY

Jan Stjernsward, MD, PhD, RRCP
International Director Oxford International Centre for Palliative Care Oxford, United Kingdom

Daniel P Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine Director, Bioethics Institute New York Medical College New York, NY

Demia L Sundra, MPH
ASPH/CDC Research Fellow National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Atlanta, GA

Jean Tuthill, RN, MSN, CWOCN
Wound/Ostomy Consultant Program Development/Clinical Consultation Fairfax, CA

Michael Wohlfeiler, MD, JD
Medical Director for Special Immunology Services, Mercy Hospital Miami, FL