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

Anna L. Romer, EdD (Managing Editor)
Dr. Anna L. Romer is a senior research scientist at the Center for Applied Ethics and Professional Practice at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). A developmental psychologist and educator with a strong research background in medical education and physician development, Dr. Romer served on the executive steering committee for the National Task Force on End-of-Life Care in Managed Care, a project conducted by EDC with funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In this capacity she was a senior author of the group's report: Meeting the Challenge: Twelve Recommendations for Improving End-of-Life Care in Managed Care. Dr. Romer also served as a co-investigator on a study of family perspectives on end-of-life care at a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital. She was a member of the faculty at the 1999 seventh annual summer seminar, "Talking Ourselves to Death: Narratives and Caregiving at the End of Life," sponsored by the Center for Literature, Medicine, and the Health Care Professions at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. Recently, she was asked to become a member of the Scientific Board of Medycyna Paliatywna, the Polish palliative medicine journal. Bilingual in French and English as well as conversant in Polish, she has extensive experience living abroad. Dr. Romer received her BA degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, her MAT from the School for International Training at the Experiment in International Living (now World Learning) in Brattleboro, Vermont, a CAS in counseling and consulting psychology, and her EdD in human development and psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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