July 27, 2017San Diego

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2017 TRUST Award Recipient

Diane E. Meier, M.D., FACP is director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States. Under her leadership,

the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. She is also co-director of the Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center; vice-chair for public policy and professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine; Catherine Gaisman professor of medical ethics; and was the founder and director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, 1997-2011, all at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Dr. Meier was named one of 20 People Who Make Healthcare Better in the U.S. by HealthLeaders Media in 2010 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013. She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in September of 2008 and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Oberlin College in 2010. Other honors include the Open Society Institute Faculty

Scholar’s Award of the Project on Death in America, the Founders Award of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization 2007, AARP’s 50th Anniversary Social Impact Award 2008, Gold Humanism Honor Society National Honoree 2008, Castle Connelly’s Physician of the Year Award 2009, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award 2009, the Medal of Honor from the American Cancer Society 2012 and the Henderson Award from the American Geriatrics Society in 2013. She is currently principal investigator of a National Cancer Institute-funded, five year multisite study on the outcomes of hospital palliative care services in cancer patients. Dr. Meier served as one of Columbia University’s Health and Aging Policy fellows in Washington, D.C., in 2009-2010, working both on the Senate’s HELP Committee and at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Meier has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in the medical literature. Her most recent book, Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Reform, was published by Humana Press in 2014. An earlier book, Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness, was published by Jossey in 2010. She edited the first textbook on geriatric palliative care, as well as four editions of Geriatric Medicine. As one of the leading figures in the field of palliative medicine, Dr. Meier has appeared numerous times on television and in print, and figured prominently in the Bill Moyers series “On Our Own Terms,” a four-part documentary aired on PBS.

Diane Meier received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School. She completed her residency and fellowship training at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. She has been on the faculty of the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 1983.

The Board of Trustees of theHealth Research & Educational Trust requests your presence at the

2017 TRUST Award ReceptionAn event held in conjunction with the AHA Leadership Summit

Evening AgendaWelcome and Award Presentation

Jay Bhatt, D.O., President, Health Research & Educational TrustChief Medical Officer, American Hospital Association

David Tilton, HRET Board ChairExecutive Vice President and Chief Integration Officer

Geisinger Health System

2017 TRUST Award RecipientDiane Meier, M.D., FACP

DirectorCenter to Advance Palliative Care

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Heavy hors d’oeuvres served throughout the evening.Business attire recommended.

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Thursday, July 27, 20177:00 – 9:00 p.m.

The Prado at Balboa Park1549 El Prado

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155 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 400 • Chicago, IL 60606 •hret.org

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