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

Navah Harlow, MA

Navah Harlow is the Director of the Center for Ethics in Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. She has created an ethics consultation service which provides support to both clinical and administrative staff as well as to patients and their caregivers. She conducts regular ethics rounds with medical staff and organizes educational programming on a wide range of topics for staff and community. Ms. Harlow has been instrumental in creating hospital-wide policies and procedures for a variety of issues, such as: access to ethics consultations, end-of-life issues, advance directives and privacy and confidentiality in the electronic age. She recently served as principal investigator for a research project on palliative care which resulted in the establishment of a Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center. Ms. Harlow, a graduate of Boston University, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and a recipient of a Masters degree in counseling from Columbia University, has lectured widely both nationally and internationally.

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Stuart Farber, MD

Dr. Farber is board certified in Family Practice, Geriatrics, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine and has been involved in palliative care and hospice for more than a decade. Four years ago, he left his private medical practice to pursue interests in medical education and research regarding end-of-life care. Presently, Dr. Farber is a Project on Death in America Scholar and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM), Seattle. Dr. Farber's current projects include: a qualitative study of physician, patient and caregiver perceptions of end-of-life care, within the Family Practice Residency Network affiliated with UWSOM; initiating first and second-year medical school courses in Hospice Training and Spirituality in Medicine; implementing a collaborative model for nurses, pharmacists and physicians to manage patients with cancer pain at a regional medical center; and developing educational materials to assist patients and families deal with life- threatening and incurable illness.

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