In order to help us to continuously improve the program methodology and to ensure that it is being delivered in an unbiased and neutral manner, we are fortunate to have a number of leading, independent experts in the areas of palliative care, bioethics, and healthcare law serving on an independent advisory board. Board members include:

A widely published and world renowned physician specializing in the area of palliative medicine who leads an internationally known research center focused on palliative care and gerontology.

A nurse and attorney, who is recognized nationally and internationally for leadership in the areas of end-of-life care, health disparities, working with vulnerable populations, particularly among African Americans and persons with disabilities through community-based participatory research and activities.

An adjunct university faculty member in the field of bioethics who also actively practices as a consultant for bedside ethics and palliative care consultations with patients, families and caregivers at one of the nation’s most active hospital ethics and palliative care committees.

A physician with a distinguished career in building and developing palliative care and ethics programs, who directs one of New Jersey’s largest palliative care programs.

A professor at a major teaching hospital with a research interest in evidence-based interventions to improve decision making for intensive care unit patients at a high risk of death.

A noted healthcare lawyer with over twenty-five years of experience in providing expert counsel on significant bioethical legal issues and who holds a faculty teaching position in the area of medical ethics and the law.