Diane E. Meier

Diane E. Meier (born April 15, 1952), an American geriatrician and palliative care specialist. In 1999, Dr. Meier founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care, a national organization devoted to increasing access to quality health care in the United States for people living with serious illness. She continues to serve as CAPC's Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor. Meier is also Vice-Chair for Public Policy, Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Meier was founder and Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City from 1997 to 2011.

An expert on palliative medicine, Meier has appeared in media including, ''CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, PBS NewsHour, Boston Globe, NewsHour'', '' ABC World News Tonight'', ''The Open Mind'' with Richard Heffner, ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''USA Today'', the ''New York Daily News'', ''Newsday'', ''The New Yorker'' and ''Newsweek''. In 2002, she was featured in the Bill Moyers series ''On Our Own Terms: Dying in America'', a four-part PBS documentary.

Meier has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, several books, over twenty-nine book chapters and has been principal investigator on numerous grants. She edited the first textbook on geriatric palliative care, as well as four editions of Geriatric Medicine. Her book, ''Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness'', was published by Springer Publishing in 2014. ''Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness'', was published in 2010. Provided by Wikipedia