Dr. R. Sean Morrison is a professor of palliative careat Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He co-edited a book on geriatric palliative care and is director of the National Palliative Care Research Center.

Dr. Joanne Lynn is a pioneer in palliative care and care of the dying, a geriatrician, a health services researcher and an ethicist. She has served as chairwoman for various efforts to improve end-of-life care, is past president of Americans for Better Care of the Dying and is the author or editor of numerous books, […]

Read a June 12, 2013 Huffington Post article about the ec0-villages, or cohousing communities, that are becoming a popular trend for adults and seniors alike.

Dr. Sidney Wolfe is a senior adviser and co-founder of the Health Research Group, one of Public Citizen’s five policy groups. Public Citizen is a nonprofit public interest group in Washington, D.C. Contact Angela Bradbery, director of communications.

Kenneth Kaitin is director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development in Boston.

Scott Ballenger is founder of the Trial Acceleration Institute in Spring House, Pa., which assists stakeholders in speeding up clinical trials.

Frank Palumbo is a professor and director of the Center on Drugs and Public Policy at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.

Dr. Ira Byock is the executive director and chief medical officer for the Providence Institute for Human Caring. He was formerly the director of the palliative care program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. His books include Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life. A past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, […]

Carl E. Schneider is Chauncey Stillman Professor for Ethics, Morality and the Practice of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He served on the President’s Council on Bioethics and edited Law at the End of Life: The Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide.