Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care

Dr. Meier is director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, professor of geriatrics and internal medicine, and the Catherine Gaisman professor of medical ethics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She directs The Robert Wood Johnson/Mount Sinai National Program Office of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, a program directed at increasing the number of hospital and nursing home-based palliative care programs in the United States. She has established and directs the medical-center-wide Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at Mount Sinai, begun with support from the Project on Death in America/ Open Society Institute Faculty Scholar's Program and the United Hospital Fund Hospital Palliative Care Initiative. Chief of the Division of Geriatrics for the Department of Medicine, Dr. Meier is also the recipient of an NIA Academic Career Leadership Award focusing on palliative care of the elderly and the mentoring and support of junior faculty in palliative medicine.

Dr. Meier attended Northwestern University Medical School and completed residency and fellowship training at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. She has been on the faculty of the Departments of Geriatrics and Medicine at Mount Sinai since 1983.

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