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

Dr. Marilyn Bookbinder is the Director of Nursing, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University School of Nursing. She is the former Director of Nursing Research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and currently Principal Investigator for "Benchmarking for the Care of the Imminently Dying Inpatient: A CQI Project to Improve End-of-Life Care." She serves as faculty for the National Oncology Nursing Society's Research Utilization Short Course and Evaluator for the Project Team on End-of-Life Care. In addition, she serves as faculty for a United Hospital Fund of New York and Center to Improve Care of the Dying / Institute for Healthcare Improvement quality improvement initiative in palliative care. She has authored and lectured extensively on building "best practices" using quality improvement models.

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Russell K. Portenoy, MD

Dr. Russell K. Portenoy is Chairman, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, and Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is past president of the American Pain Society, current Secretary of the International Association for the Study of Pain, and Trustee of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He served as co-principal investigator on the American Medical Association's project, Education for Physicians in End-of-Life Care. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Associate Editor for Clinical Sciences of Pain, and Editor for Palliative Care Section for Cancer Investigation. He has been an active clinical investigator in the fields of opioid pharmacology, pain and symptom epidemiology, analgesic trials, and quality-of-life research. He is author or editor of 12 books and more than 350 papers.

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