Dr. Twaddle currently serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, with nearly thirty years of experience in the care of seriously ill people and their families in a variety of areas of service. She currently serves as the Waud Family Medical Director for Palliative Medicine & Supportive Care at Northwestern Medicine. Her academic work includes developing curriculum, guidelines and models of care for healthcare professionals to provide care for the seriously ill in all settings. She works with others at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine exploring how technology and prescriptive nature can improve health outcomes as well as collaborating nationally in the development of patient-family centered quality metrics. On behalf of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM), Dr. Twaddle served as the co-Chair for the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, which completed the 4th edition of the clinical practice guidelines for the field in late October 2018. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Twaddle’s unique talents and contributions to the field of palliative medicine have helped increase the understanding of and access to this continuum of care, regionally and nationally. In 2013, she was named one of the 30 most influential visionaries in hospice and palliative medicine by nomination of her peers via AAHPM. She served as President of AAHPM from 2002 to 2003 and on the AAHPM Board of Directors from 1997 to 2004. She represented the AAHPM in the creation of the initial NCP Guidelines published in 2004. She was honored with the inaugural AAHPM Josefina B. Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician Award in 2005. She was recognized in 2016 as a Distinguished Alumni of Purdue’s College of Science and “an exemplary educator and pioneering contributor to end-of-life care” as the recipient of the Compassion in Action Award by Hospice of the Valley and Santa Clara University in 2015. She was the recipient of the AAHPM Lifetime Achievement Award conferred in March 2019.

After graduating summa cum laude from Purdue University, Dr. Twaddle received her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and completed her residency in internal medicine through the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, where she was chief resident.

As of April 2025, Dr. Twaddle reported the following external relationships:

Work as an author or editor for the following companies, with compensation as listed:

• UpToDate^®, receiving royalties
• Oxford, serving as editor for specialty sections on hospice and communication skills for a textbook for physician associates preparing for their certification. 

Dr. Liaw is a Senior Physician in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. He is also an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Liaw is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Since 2014, he has served as the Director of the Harvard Interprofessional Pediatric Palliative Care Fellowship, based at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Through the fellowship, Dr. Liaw has mentored more than 35 physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers and psychologists pursuing subspecialty training in pediatric palliative care.

Dr. Liaw is an active educator in the field of hospice and palliative medicine, and has served in educational leadership roles to advance training in pediatric palliative care. After residency, he cofounded the pediatric palliative care program at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital and served as Associate Program Director for the University of Texas Medical School at Houston (now the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School) Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. He has also served as Pediatric Site Director for multiple adult-focused hospice and palliative medicine fellowships in the New England area. He is recognized as a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Previously, Dr. Liaw served on the ABIM Hospice and Palliative Medicine Item-Writing Task Force.

Dr. Liaw received his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002 and completed pediatric residency training at the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School (formerly the University of Texas Medical School at Houston) in 2005.

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As of September 2024, Dr. Liaw reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Lustbader is Chief of the Department of Palliative Care for Optum/ProHealth Care, a multispecialty group serving 1.5 million people in the New York metropolitan area. She has served as Senior Medical Advisor for Aspire Health, helping to make it the nation's largest home palliative care company. She was also the founder and Chief Medical Officer of ProHealth/Optum Supportive Care, serving patients with multiple chronic conditions via home visits and telemedicine.

Prior to this, Dr. Lustbader was an intensivist and Director of the ICU at Northwell Health. She also founded the Department of Palliative Medicine and its Physician Hospice and Palliative Medicine Training Fellowship. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Lustbader answered a plea from the governor and returned to work as an intensivist in the overwhelmed New York City hospitals. She is a Professor of Medicine at Northwell Hofstra School of Medicine and a nationally recognized expert in palliative care. Dr. Lustbader is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Lustbader earned her medical degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, completed internal medicine training at New York University Medical Center, and critical care medicine fellowship at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers.

As of April 2025, Dr. Lustbader reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Meier is the Executive Medical Director of Providence Hospice. ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine, she previously spent ten years making house calls and serving an interdisciplinary hospice team. She also served as an inpatient palliative care consultant in two community hospitals.

Dr. Meier has supervised rotating hospice and palliative medicine fellows and is currently involved in supervising 11 fellows per year. As executive medical director, Dr. Meier works with Providence Hospice and palliative care leaders across the health system, focusing on the alignment of care using best practices and education. Her areas of interest include serving the underserved patient, easing the burden of healthcare transitions and inspiring and mentoring palliative care and hospice clinicians of all disciplines.

Dr. Meier received a medical degree from the University of Zurich’s Faculty of Medicine. She completed an internal medicine residency at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and a fellowship in hospice and palliative care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

As of April 2025, Dr. Meier reported no ongoing external relationships.

American Board of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Quest is the Director of the Emory Palliative Care Center for the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University. She is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Emory University School of Medicine and board certified in Emergency Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Quest is a Project on Death in America Faculty Scholar. Currently, she serves as the Chief of the Section of Palliative Medicine at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and is the former director of the Grady Cancer Center for Excellence Palliative Care Oncology Program. She is currently the Director for the Emory University School of Medicine Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program and holds a strong interest in novel palliative care curriculum design and teaching methodologies for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate medical trainees that she teaches locally, regionally and nationally.

Dr. Quest is the Director of the Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Emergency Medicine Project, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She serves as a member of the National Priorities Partnership's Palliative and End-of-life Care work group. With a strong interest in ethics and end-of-life care, she holds a core faculty appointment at the Emory University Center for Ethics and she is the immediate past-chair of the Ethics Committee for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and a member of the Ethics Committee for the American College of Emergency Physicians. In 2016, she was appointed by John Nathan Deal, then Governor of Georgia, to the Georgia Palliative Care and Quality of Life Advisory Council. She is also past president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

Dr. Quest is the Montgomery Chair in Palliative Medicine and Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is the Chief of Palliative Medicine for the Division of Palliative Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine. She is a past President of AAHPM and Director of the Emory Palliative Care Center for Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center.

Her active education and research interests include emergency medicine and palliative care, advance care planning and care for serious illness in older adults. She is the recipient of multiple NIH grants and foundation funding to support innovations in palliative care.

Dr. Quest received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Alameda Health System.

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As of May 2025, Dr. Quest reported the following external relationships:

Work as an author or editor for the following company, with compensation as listed:

• Oxford University Press, for authorship for Palliative Aspects of Emergency Care and Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine. 

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Dr. Robinson is a Senior Associate Consultant in the Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic Florida with a joint appointment in the Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Robinson holds the academic rank of Assistant Professor of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. At Mayo, she established the Neuropalliative Care Program and serves as the Medical Director of Palliative Medicine and Associate Program Director for the Palliative Medicine Fellowship. She is ABIM Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and holds certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Neurology.

Previously, Dr. Robinson was an Instructor in Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles where she practiced neurology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in health services and health policy research as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.

Dr. Robinson serves as Chair of the Medical Student Diversity Program, as a member of the Meeting Management and Leadership Development Committees and as past Vice Chair of the Pain and Palliative Care Section at the American Academy of Neurology. She is also a member the Medical Advisory Board of Neurology Now. Dr. Robinson was selected for participation in the Emerging Leaders Forum and in the Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum of the American Academy of Neurology, and as a National Institutes of Medicine/National Medical Association Academic Medicine Fellow.

Dr. Robinson earned her undergraduate degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University and her medical degree from Tufts University. She completed her residency training in neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she was named chief resident in her final year. She continued her training through a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and she returned to Mayo Clinic for a neurohospitalist fellowship. She earned a master's degree in health policy and management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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As of June 2024, Dr. Robinson reported the following external relationships:

Work as an author or editor for the following companies:

• Cambridge University Press
• UpToDate^®

Dr. Robinson serves in significant roles with the following organization, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:

• The American Academy of Neurology; Board Member, ex officio, without compensation.

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Dr. Fairman is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California (UC) Davis School of Medicine. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and ABIM Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Fairman’s clinical expertise lies at the interface of palliative medicine, psychiatry and bioethics. He serves as Director of Supportive Oncology and Survivorship at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. His clinical service includes work as an attending physician on the inpatient palliative care consult service at the UC Davis Medical Center and in the psycho-oncology clinic at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. As a Faculty Associate in the Bioethics Program, Dr. Fairman directs bioethics education in the UC Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Fairman also maintains a variety of teaching responsibilities throughout the health system, focused primarily on palliative care, serious illness communication and bioethics.

Dr. Fairman received his bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he was a National McCabe Scholar. He obtained his medical degree from the UC Davis School of Medicine, followed by a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University, where he was a Zuckerman Fellow. He completed residency training in general psychiatry at UC Davis. Prior to joining the academic faculty, Dr. Fairman was a fellow in palliative care psychiatry at the former San Diego Hospice and the Institute for Palliative Medicine.

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As of November 2024, Dr. Fairman reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Jones is a Professor and the Clinical Vice Chief for Palliative Care for the Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Palliative Medicine, alternate subspecialty advisor for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine to the American Medical Association’s RVS Update Committee, a physician Board Member at AAHPM and has co-authored more than 70 academic papers. A Certified Professional Coder, he consults nationally, making billing and coding accessible for providers across medicine's specialties and subspecialties. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Jones completed medical school at Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College) in Philadelphia a Master of Business Administration at East Carolina University. He completed an internal medicine residency at Brown University and fellowships in geriatric medicine and hospice and palliative medicine at Duke University.

As of April 2025, Dr. Jones reported the following external relationships:

Dr. Jones serves in significant roles with the following organization, receiving reimbursement or compensation as listed:

• The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Board Member, receiving registration to annual assembly. 

Dr. Jones reported part-ownership of the following companies:

• Lightning Bolt Partners, LLC, for billing and coding consulting.
• TPS Medical, for consulting done during the startup phase.

Dr. Jones also receives compensation from Four Seasons Consulting for a Legal Consulting and Immersion Course. 

Dr. Lefkowits is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, jointly appointed in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, and the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Palliative Medicine. She serves as the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Director for the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology through the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and ABIM Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Lefkowits completed her undergraduate education at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. She received her medical degree and a Master of Public Health at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. She completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by dual fellowships in hospice and palliative medicine and gynecologic oncology at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also received a master’s degree in medical education.

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As of September 2024, Dr. Lefkowits reported the following external relationships:

Service on a research-related expert panel or advisory board for the following companies, with compensation for travel expenses and honoraria:

• Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Nagpal is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan (UMass Chan) Medical School and an Associate Chief of Palliative Care at UMass Memorial Health. She is passionate about medical education, quality improvement, communication skills and humanism in medicine. She was recognized by the UMass Internal Medicine Residency Program with the Sarah Stone Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017 and she also received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in 2021.

Dr. Nagpal earned a medical degree from Dayanand Medical College in India. She completed her medical residency and training in internal medicine at State University of New York at Buffalo where she was also a chief resident. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

As of April 2025, Dr. Nagpal reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Rosielle is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Rosielle practices ambulatory palliative medicine at the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is an editor of Fast Facts and Concepts, an online publication of short, evidence-based palliative care monographs.

Previously, Dr. Rosielle was the Director of the University of Minnesota Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship from 2010 to 2018 and the Medical Director of the Palliative Care Program for M Health Fairview from 2018 to 2022. He has lectured and published widely, with a focus on promoting evidence-based care in palliative medicine and helping healthcare professionals communicate with their patients with clarity and compassion.

Dr. Rosielle attended medical school at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and a palliative care fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

As of April 2025, Dr. Rosielle reported the following external relationships:

Dr. Rosielle received education consulting fees from the Center to Advance Palliative Care at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Sacks is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Associate Program Director for the Chronic Pain Fellowship and has helped develop several key components for the curriculum. She is also the Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Committee on Palliative Care and has led several initiatives to increase the presence of palliative care in acute perioperative settings.

She has been an active member of the ASA and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and has served as an item-writer for the American Board of Anesthesiology and ABIM. Her clinical and academic work focuses on a team-based approach to minimizing symptom burden and improving the quality of life of cancer patients and their families by providing high-quality, person-centered care to patients with serious illnesses.

After completing residency in anesthesiology at Stanford University, she completed fellowship training in both hospice and palliative medicine and pain medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA, respectively. 

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As of April 2025, Dr. Sacks reported no ongoing external relationships.