Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP

Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Director, Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Professor, Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Diane E. Meier, MD is the Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care which is a national organization that is devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States. She also serves as the Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In addition, Dr. Meier is a Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She has served as a member of the staff since 1983.

Dr. Meier did her undergraduate work at Oberlin College, and then went to Medical School at Northwestern University. She completed both her residency and fellowship training at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. She has published in several major peer-reviewed medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. She was the editor of the first textbook on geriatric palliative care, as well as four editions of Geriatric Medicine. She has also contributed to more than 20 books on the subject of geriatrics and palliative care.

Dr. Meier was a recipient of the 2009 Castle Connelly’s Physician of the Year Award. In addition she has received a number of different awards, including the National Institute on Aging Academic Career Leadership Award, the Open Society Institute Faculty Scholar’s Award of the Project on Death in America, the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award for Humanism in Medicine, and the Founders Award of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization 2007.