LOUISE ARONSON is a professor of geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where her roles include medical education and directing UCSF Health Humanities. She is also the author of a short story collection, A History of the Present Illness (Bloomsbury, 2013), and the nonfiction Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life (Bloomsbury, 2019).
LAURA ARROWSMITH is a physician, educator, and advocate for the transgender community. She is a contributor to Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons: A Handbook for Service Providers, Educators, and Families (Routledge, 2018). She is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
CHERYL BETTIGOLE is the director of Get Healthy Philly, the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. She is a past president of the National Physicians Alliance in Washington, DC.
CINDY BRACH is cochair of the Health Literacy Work Group of the US Department of Health and Human Services and a senior health care researcher at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in Rockville, Maryland.
GARY EPSTEIN-LUBOW is the medical director of the Center for Memory Health at Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston. He is an associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior, and of medical science, at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an associate professor of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. He is also a visiting associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
JONATHAN FRIEDLAENDER is an emeritus professor of biological anthropology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been a patient representative for the Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has held positions at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the National Science Foundation.
PATRICIA GABOW is professor emerita at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and former CEO of Denver Health.
KATTI GRAY is a freelance writer, editor, and journalism lecturer who specializes in covering health, criminal justice, and education for a range of national publications.
YASMIN SOKKAR HARKER is a professor and law librarian at the City University of New York School of Law in New York City.
TIMOTHY HOFF is a professor of management, health care systems, and health policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a visiting associate fellow at Green-Templeton College and visiting scholar at Saïd Business School, both at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Next in Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Practice under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-First Century (Rutgers University Press, 2009).
CARLA KEIRNS is an assistant professor of history and philosophy of medicine and an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.
RAYA ELFADEL KHEIRBEK is a professor of medicine and chief of the Palliative Medicine Division at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.
KATY B. KOZHIMANNIL is an associate professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis.
POOJA LAGISETTY is an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and a research investigator at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System.
MARIA MALDONADO is an associate professor of medicine and director of education in cross-cultural and patient-centered communication at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. She also practices primary care medicine in Yonkers, New York.
MAUREEN A. MAVRINAC is board-certified in family medicine and geriatrics and currently works with vulnerable elderly patients in inner-city Los Angeles.
DIANE E. MEIER is the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, a professor in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, and the Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
DINA KELLER MOSS is the ACTION III lead at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Rockville, Maryland. ACTION III research supports the development and testing of interventions designed to improve care delivery and the dissemination and implementation of successful care delivery models in diverse care settings.
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University in New York City and a cancer physician and researcher. He is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner, 2010), which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (Simon & Schuster, 2015); and The Gene: An Intimate History (Scribner, 2017).
DONNA JACKSON NAKAZAWA is an award-winning science journalist and the author of The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine (Ballantine, 2019), Childhood Disrupted (Atria Books, 2015), The Last Best Cure (Avery, 2013), and The Autoimmune Epidemic (Touchstone, 2008).
TRAVIS N. RIEDER is the assistant director for education initiatives and a research scholar at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids (HarperCollins, 2019).
AROONSIRI SANGARLANGKARN is lead geriatrician at the HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT) Clinic, Thai Red Cross Society, in Bangkok.
ELAINE SCHATTNER is a writer, patient advocate, and physician who lives in New York City.
JANICE LYNCH SCHUSTER is a poet and artist living in Annapolis, Maryland. She is a coauthor of an award-winning book, Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness (Oxford University Press, second edition, 2011), and a frequent contributor to the Washington Post.
MYRICK C. SHINALL is a surgeon and palliative care physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where he also works in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society.
GAYATHRI SUBRAMANIAN is an assistant professor in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine in Newark, New Jersey.
LOUIS W. SULLIVAN is chair of the Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions in Washington, DC. He served as Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1989 to 1993 and is the founding dean and president emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the coauthor of The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation’s Newest African American Medical School (with Marybeth Gasman) (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) and Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine (with David Chanoff) (University of Georgia Press, 2014).
GAUTHAM K. SURESH is a professor of pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine and section head and service chief of neonatology at Texas Children’s Hospital, both in Houston, Texas.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and vice chair for the theory and practice of medicine in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. He is the author of My Own Country (Vintage Books, 1994), The Tennis Partner (HarperCollins, 1998), and Cutting for Stone (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), as well as short stories and essays.
OTIS WARREN is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.
LEANA S. WEN is an emergency physician and public health leader who is on the faculty at George Washington University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the former president/CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and before that served as the Baltimore City Health Commissioner.
CHARLOTTE YEH is chief medical officer for AARP Services Inc., where she works with companies that provide AARP-branded programs to enhance care for older adults.