Panel Members: Margaret M. Heitkemper, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., (Conference and Panel Chairperson), Professor and Chair, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems Corbally Professor for Public Service, University of Washington, School of Nursing, Seattle, Washington; Deborah Watkins Bruner, Ph.D., R.N., Associate Member, Population Science and Radiation Oncology Director, Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program Director, Symptoms and Outcomes Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Cheltenham, Pennsylvania; Jerry C. Johnson, M.D., Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; James O. Kahn, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Positive Health Program, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California; Mark S. Kamlet, Ph.D., Provost, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Jay Magaziner, Ph.D., M.S.Hyg., Professor and Director, Division of Gerontology, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Heidi Malm, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioethics, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Sharon McNeil, R.N., M.S., C.P.O.N., Clinical Nurse Specialist, Hematology/Oncology, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida; Judith A. Riggs, M.A., Senior Health Policy Advisor, Alzheimer's Association, Washington, DC; Jeanne Teresi, Ed.D., Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Columbia University, Stroud Center, Faculty of Medicine, New York State, Psychiatric Institute, Administrator and Director, Research Division, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, New York, New York