Speakers

Daniel Callahan, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School; Senior Fellow, Yale University; President Emeritus, Hastings Center. Dr. Callahan was a cofounder of The Hastings Center, served as its President from 1969-1996, and currently serves as Director of the International Program. In addition to his work at the Center, he is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science. He is the author or editor of 40 books, and has contributed articles to Daedalus, Harpers, The Atlantic, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The New Republic, among others.

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD Professor Of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina. Dr. Dilworth-Anderson is Associate Director for Aging and Diversity and  Director, Center for Aging and Diversity at the University of North Carolina. Her research and publications have included both theoretically and empirically-based topics on ethnic minority families, with emphasis on older African Americans. She currently serves as President of the Gerontological Society of America.




 

Muriel Gillick, MD, Clinical Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gillick’s scholarly interests are in health care policy and ethical issues near the end of life. In addition to publishing articles in the medical literature, she has written four books for a general audience discussing ethical, medical, and other issues arising in old age. Her most recent book is The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies. She was previously Physician-in-Chief at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, and Director of the Harvard Geriatrics Fellowship Program.





 

William R Hazzard, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Washington, and Chief of Gerontology and Line Manager of Geriatrics and Extended Care Service of the VA Puget Sound Health Care. Dr. Hazzard has written extensively on topics in geriatrics and the physiology of aging, and his textbook, Hazzard’s Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, is often cited as the geriatrics book nonpareil—its sixth edition has just been published (March 2009).





 
 

Yale Kamisar, JD, Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor of Law Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Michigan Law School. Professor Kamisar is a nationally recognized authority on constitutional law and criminal procedure. He has written extensively on criminal law, the administration of criminal justice, and the “politics of crime.” Besides his publication of many books and casebooks, he has written numerous articles on interrogation and confessions; right to counsel; search and seizure; and euthanasia and assisted suicide, and is widely quoted on these subjects.





 

William F May, PhD, Cary M Maguire Professor of Ethics Emeritus, Southern Methodist University; Fellow of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, University of Virginia. Dr. May is a distinguished and widely respected medical ethicist, was a founding fellow of The Hastings Center for Bioethics and served both on President Bush’s President’s Commission on Bioethics and on President Clinton’s Task Force on Health Care Reform. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Practical Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia.





 

Thomas P Miller, JD, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Member, National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health & Human Services. Mr. Miller studies health care policy and regulation, and has served as an economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress and Senior Health Economist of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Senate. While serving with Congress, he worked on issues such as Medicare prescription drug benefits, medical savings accounts, social security reform legislation, and reforms in private health care markets.




 

Timothy E Quill, MD, Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; Director, Palliative Care Program, Strong Health. Dr. Quill is highly regarded nationally for his ongoing study of palliative care and end-of-life issues. He has published and lectured extensively on end-of-life decision making, and has written articles for scholarly journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and Annals of Internal Medicine, as well as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.