Please join us for 

Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, January 27, 2017 for the presentation titled:

“Palliative Care Futurist: Matching Care to Our Patient’s Needs”

Diane E. Meier, MD

Vice chair for Public Policy and Professor

Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai

Catherine Gaisman Professor Medical Ethics

Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care

Co-director, Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by the Section of Palliative Medicine and the Department of Medicine

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Dr. Diane E. Meier, FACP, FAAHPM, is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC.org), a national organization devoted to increasing access to quality palliative care for the seriously ill and their families in the United States. Under her leadership the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. She is co-director of the Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center; Vice-Chair for Public Policy and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine; Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics; and was the founder and Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, 1997-2011, all at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Dr. Meier was named one of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better in the U.S. by HealthLeaders Media 2010, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in September of 2008 and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Oberlin College in 2010. Dr. Meier served as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in Washington DC in 2009-2010, working both on the Senate’s HELP Committee and at the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Meier has over 200 peer reviewed publications in the medical literature. Her most recent book, Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Reform, was published by Humana in 2014.

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http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/dept_medicine_grand_rounds_live.html

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