Diane E. Meier

Diane E. Meier, MD
Born April 15, 1952
Princeton, New Jersey
Citizenship American
Fields geriatrics, palliative care
Institutions Mount Sinai Medical Center
Alma mater Oberlin College, Northwestern University
Known for geriatric and palliative care advocacy
Notable awards MacArthur Fellowship

Diane E. Meier, MD, (born April 15, 1952) is an American geriatrician and the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. As an internationally recognized expert on palliative medicine, Meier has appeared in media including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,[1] ABC World News Tonight, The Open Mind with Richard Heffner,[2] the New York Times,[3] the Los Angeles Times, USA Today,[4] the New York Daily News,[5] Newsday, The New Yorker and Newsweek. She was featured in the Bill Moyers series On Our Own Terms: Dying in America, a four-part PBS documentary in 2002.[6]

Meier is the director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and professor of geriatrics and internal medicine and the Cather Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.[7] She has published more than 100 articles, four books and twenty-nine book chapters. She has completed fifteen grant projects and is currently the principal investigator on two grants. Under Meier's leadership, since 2004 CAPC doubled the number of palliative care programs in the U.S.[7] She is one of four resident 2009-2010 Health and Aging Policy Fellows working with the U.S. Senate HELP committee.[8]

Meier is a 2008 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship,[9][10] and is listed among New York Magazine‍‍ '​‍s Best Doctors of 2009.[11]

Biography

Meier was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1952. She earned a BA in psychology from Oberlin College in 1973[12] and earned her MD at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago in 1977. She completed both an internship and a residency at Oregon Health Sciences from 1977 to 1981 and completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the VA Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.

In 1983, Meier joined the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as an instructor in the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development. She was named associate professor in 1990 and professor of geriatrics and medicine as well as professor of medical ethics in 1998. From 1995 until 2003 she served as chief of the Division of Geriatrics in Mount Sinai's Department of Medicine, and from 1995 to the present she has directed Mount Sinai's Palliative Care Program. In 1999 she was named director of both the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute and the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

Meier served on the board of directors for Choice in Dying from 1994–1998 and on the board of directors for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 2006-2007. Since 2000 she has sat on the board of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice Care. She serves or has served on national committees including the National Palliative Care Research Center (Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee) and the U.S. Senate’s Health Care Services Task Force.[13] She sits on the editorial boards of the journals Drugs & Aging, Interdisciplinary Topics in Gerontology, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management and Internal Medicine News.

Honors and awards

Grants

Meier has completed 15 grants. Active grants include:

Books

Publications

Partial list:

References

  1. ↑ "NewsHour Looks at the End – Britannica Online Encyclopedia". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  2. ↑ "The Open Mind Online Digital Archive". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  3. ↑ Jane E. Brody (November 18, 2003). "Diane Meier; Providing Care, When the Cure Is Out of Reach". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Malcolm Ritter (April 9, 2009). "FDA reverses to let hospice painkiller stay on the market". USA Today.
  5. ↑ Patrice O'Shaughnessey (January 12, 1997). "A Life and Death Battle Assisted Suicide Debate Touches 3". New York Daily News.
  6. ↑ "On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying - End-of-Life Tools". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The Center to Advance Palliative Care". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "Health and Aging Policy Fellows". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  9. ↑ Patricia Cohen (September 23, 2008). "25 Receive $500,000 ‘Genius’ Fellowships". The New York Times.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "MacArthur Foundation". Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  11. ↑ "Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  12. ↑ "Oberlin College News". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  13. ↑ "National Consensus Project". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  14. ↑ "Diane E. Meier, MD; National Physician Of The Year Awards Honoree". Retrieved 2010-02-19.

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