Subspecialty	Geriatric Medicine - Internal Medicine
Clinical Interests	Pain Management
	Palliative Care
Languages	English
	Spanish
Gender	Female
Education and Training	MD, Northwestern Univ Medical School
	Residency, Internal Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University
	Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Awards	2009 Best Doctors New York Magazine

Dr. Diane E. Meier 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 doubled in the last 5 years. She is also Director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute; Professor of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine; and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.

Dr. Meier is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2008 MacArthur Fellowship, the National Institute on Aging Academic Career Leadership Award, 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, and the Alexander Richman Commemorative Award for Humanism in Medicine. She is the Principal Investigator of an NCI-funded five-year multisite study on the outcomes of hospital palliative care services in cancer patients.

In March 2009 Dr. Meier received the Clinical Excellence Award at the fourth annual Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. National Physician of the Year Awards. Learn more about the honor she received in Inside Mount Sinai.

Dr. Meier has published extensively in all major peer-reviewed medical journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. She edited the first textbook on geriatric palliative care, as well as four editions of Geriatric Medicine, and has contributed to more than 20 books on the subject of geriatrics and palliative care. As one of the leading figures in the field of palliative medicine, Dr. Meier has appeared numerous times on television and in print, including ABC World News Tonight, Open Mind with Richard Hefner, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the New York Daily News, Newsday, the New Yorker, and Newsweek. She figured prominently in the Bill Moyers series On Our Own Terms: Dying in America, a four-part documentary aired on PBS.

Diane E. Meier received her BA from Oberlin College and her MD 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 Adult Development and Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 1983.

In the News

Dr. Meier and her work providing palliative care for both the young and elderly were recently profiled in The Daily News feature The Daily Check Up. View the PDF.

Education and Training	MD, Northwestern Univ Medical School
	Residency, Internal Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University
	Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Board Certification	Geriatric Medicine - Internal Medicine

Subspecialty	Geriatric Medicine - Internal Medicine
Clinical Interests	Pain Management
	Palliative Care
Languages	English
	Spanish
Board Certification	Geriatric Medicine - Internal Medicine

Manfredi PL, Morrison R, Morris J, Goldhirsch S, Carter J, Meier D. Palliative care consultations: how do they impact the care of hospitalized patients?. J Pain Symptom Manage 2000 Sep; 20(3): 166-73.

Carney MT, Meier DE. Palliative care and end-of-life issues. Anesthesiol Clin North America 2000 Mar; 18(1): 183-209.

Meier D, Ahronheim JC, Morris J, Baskin-Lyons S, Morrison R. High short-term mortality in hospitalized patients with advanced dementia: lack of benefit of tube feeding. Arch Intern Med 2001 Feb 26; 161(4): 594-9.

Meier DE, Back AL, Morrison RS. The inner life of physicians and care of the seriously ill. JAMA 2001 Dec 19; 286(23): 3007-3014.

Nierman DM, Schechter CB, Cannon LM, Meier DE. Outcome prediction model for very elderly critically ill patients. Crit Care Med 2001 Oct; 29(10): 1853-1859.

Meier DE. Palliative care programs: what, why, and how?. Physician Exec 2001 Dec; 27(6): 43-47.

Meier DE. United States: Overview of cancer pain and palliative care. J Pain Symptom Manage 2002 Aug; 24(2): 265-269.

Meier DE, Morrison RS. Autonomy reconsidered. N Engl J Med 2002 Apr 4; 346(14): 1087-1089.

Morrison R, Meier DE, editors. Geriatric Palliative Care. New York, Oxford University Press; 2003.