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National Advisory Committee

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care is led by an advisory committee of national leaders in end-of-life care. They include:

Richard Della Penna, MD Kaiser Permanente Continuing Care Services San Diego, CA	Brent Eastman, MD N. Paul Whittier Endowed Chair of Trauma Chief Senior Medical Officer and Senior Vice President Scripps Health Center San Diego, CA
Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD Endowed Professor of Bioethics and Associate Professor of Medicne SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY	Melanie Pratt Merriman, PhD, MBA Touchstone Consulting North Bay Village, FL
Steven Miles, MD Associate Professor of Medicine University of Minnesota Center for Biomedical Ethics Minneapolis, MN	Laurence J. O'Connell, PhD, STD President and CEO The Park Ridge Center Chicago, IL
Joseph F. O'Neill, MD, MPH CEO and President Immune Response Corporation Carlsbad, CA	Richard Payne, MD Director, Duke Inst. on Care at the End of Life Duke University Divinity School Durham, NC
Carol Raphael, MPH President and CEO Visiting Nurse Service of New York New York, NY	R. Knight Steel, MD Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack, NJ
Ellen L. Stovall Executive Director National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Silver Spring, MD	Ann Thompson, MD Director, Pediatric ICU Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Diana J. Wilkie, PhD, RN Professor and Harriet Werley Endowed Chair for Nursing Research Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing (MC 802) College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL	Donna L. Wong, PhD, RN, PNP, CPN, FAAN Author, Consultant, Lecturer, Researcher Tulsa, OK
Laurie Zoloth, PhD Professor Medical Ethics and Humanities Program The Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Chicago, IL

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.