Diane E. Meier

Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP
Born (1952-04-15)April 15, 1952
Princeton, New Jersey
Citizenship American
Fields geriatrics, palliative care
Institutions Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Alma mater Oberlin College, Northwestern University
Known for Geriatrics; Palliative Care; Policy/Advocacy
Notable awards MacArthur Fellowship The New York Academy of Medicine 2015 Academy Distinguished Awards

Diane E. Meier, MD, (born April 15, 1952), an American geriatrician and palliative care specialist, is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative care (CAPC) - a national organization dedicated to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States. 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, Diane Meier has appeared in media including, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, PBS NewsHour, Boston Globe, NewsHour,[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. In 2002, she was featured in the Bill Moyers series On Our Own Terms: Dying in America, a four-part PBS documentary.[6]

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.

Biography

Meier was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1952. She earned a BA in psychology from Oberlin College in 1973[7] 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.

Since 2000, Meier 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.[8] 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

Meier is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2008 MacArthur Fellowship.[9][10] She received the 2015 Academy Distinguished Award from the New York Academy of Medicine and was listed among New York Magazine's Best Doctors of 2009.[11] She was named one of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better in the U.S. by HealthLeaders Media 2010 and received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Oberlin College in 2010. In 2012, she was awarded American Cancer Society’s Medal of Honor for Cancer Control in recognition of her pioneering leadership of the effort to bring non-hospice palliative care into mainstream medicine and received the American Geriatrics Society Edward Henderson State-of-the-Art Lecture Award in 2013. Other honors include the Open Society Institute Faculty Scholar’s Award of the Project on Death in America, the Founders Award of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization 2007, AARP’s 50th Anniversary Social Impact Award 2008, Castle Connelly’s Physician of the Year Award 2009, and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award 2009. Dr. Meier served as one of Columbia University’s Health and Aging Policy Fellows in Washington DC during the 2009-2010 academic year, working both on the Senate’s HELP Committee and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Grants

Meier's work has been supported by numerous large grants, including:

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. ↑ "Oberlin College News". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  8. ↑ "National Consensus Project". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  9. ↑ Patricia Cohen (September 23, 2008). "25 Receive $500,000 ‘Genius’ Fellowships". The New York Times.
  10. 1 2 "MacArthur Foundation". Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  11. ↑ "Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  12. 1 2 3 4 "Health and Aging Policy Fellows". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
  13. ↑ "Diane E. Meier, MD; National Physician Of The Year Awards Honoree". Retrieved 2010-02-19.

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