Overview
| Subspecialty | Geriatric Medicine - Internal Medicine |
|---|---|
| Clinical Interests | Pain Management |
| Palliative Care | |
| 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.
