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[{"name":"Robert M Arnold, MD","credentials":["Editor-in-Chief — Palliative
Care\n","Section Editor — General Principles of Palliative Care\n","Chief, Section
of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics\n","University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Susan D Block, MD","credentials":["Editor-in-
Chief — Palliative Care\n","Section Editor — Psychosocial Issues\n","Professor of
Psychiatry\n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""}]},{"name":"Deputy
Editors","contributors":[{"name":"Diane MF Savarese, MD","credentials":["Senior
Deputy Editor — UpToDate\n","Deputy Editor — Oncology and Palliative
Care\n","Clinical Instructor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":""}]},{"name":"Section Editors","contributors":
[{"name":"Janet Abrahm, MD","credentials":["Section Editor — Pain: Assessment and
Management\n","Professor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":"Consultant/Advisory Boards: Novartis [Metastatic breast
cancer (Website to help put together a treatment team)]. Other Financial Interest:
Johns Hopkins University Press [Pain, palliative care, ethics, bone disease in
cancer patients (I receive royalties from the three editions of the book I wrote
that they published-\"A physician's guide to pain and symptom management in cancer
patients\")]."},{"name":"Robert M Arnold, MD","credentials":["Editor-in-Chief —
Palliative Care\n","Section Editor — General Principles of Palliative
Care\n","Chief, Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics\n","University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Susan D Block,
MD","credentials":["Editor-in-Chief — Palliative Care\n","Section Editor —
Psychosocial Issues\n","Professor of Psychiatry\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Eduardo Bruera, MD","credentials":["Section
Editor — Non Pain Symptoms: Assessment and Management\n","Professor of
Oncology\n","University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center at
Houston"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Helsinn [Nausea,
cachexia (Netupitant, Anamorelin)]."},{"name":"R Sean Morrison, MD","credentials":
["Section Editor — Selected End Stage Conditions\n","Hermann Merkin Professor of
Palliative Care\n","Mount Sinai School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Christine Ritchie, MD, MSPH","credentials":["Section Editor — Special
Sites of Care and Allied Health Professions\n","Professor of Medicine\n","Harris
Fishbon Distinguished Professor for Clinical Translational Research in
Aging\n","University of California - San Francisco"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Maria J Silveira, MD, MA, MPH","credentials":["Section Editor — Special
Sites of Care and Allied Health Professions\n","Clinician Scientist\n","Ann Arbor
VAMC\n","Associate Professor of Internal Medicine\n","University of
Michigan"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Thomas J Smith, MD, FACP, FASCO,
FAAHPM","credentials":["Section Editor — Non Pain Symptoms: Assessment and
Management\n","Professor of Oncology\n","Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
of Johns Hopkins Medical Institution"],"disclosure":""}]},{"name":"Editorial
Assistants","contributors":[{"name":"Laura Blockhus, BA","credentials":["Editorial
Assistant — UpToDate"],"disclosure":""}]},{"name":"Authors","contributors":
[{"name":"Kathryn Agarwal, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of
Medicine\n","Baylor College of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Ebtesam Ahmed,
PharmD, MS","credentials":["Clinical Professor,\n","St. John's University College
of Pharmacy\n","Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Innovative Institute for Palliative
Care"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Larry Allen, MD, MHS","credentials":["Associate
Professor of Medicine\n","Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure and
Transplantation\n","University of Colorado School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research Support: PCORI [Patient decision aid for
LVAD]; NIH [Post-hospitalization transitions]; AHA [Patient engagement too for
medication use]. Consultant/Advisory Boards: ACI [Clinical events adjudication
committee (BNP assay)]; Boston Scientific [Steering committee MANAGE-HF]; Duke
Clinical Research Institute [Steering committee CONNECT-HF]; Cytokinetics
[Publication committee]; Jannsen [Steering committee ORBIT registry (Rivaroxiban)];
Novartis [Clinical events adjudication committee (Serelaxin)]."},{"name":"Robert M
Arnold, MD","credentials":["Editor-in-Chief — Palliative Care\n","Section Editor —
General Principles of Palliative Care\n","Chief, Section of Palliative Care and
Medical Ethics\n","University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"John R Bach, MD","credentials":["Professor, Department of Physical
Medicine & Rehabilitation\n","Rutgers New Jersey Medical School"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Travis P Baggett, MD, MPH","credentials":["Assistant Professor of
Medicine\n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"F Amos Bailey,
MD","credentials":["Professor of Medicine \n","University of Colorado at
Denver"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Michael J Balboni, PhD, ThM","credentials":
["Instructor of Psychiatry\n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Tracy A Balboni, MD, MPH","credentials":["Associate Professor of Radiation
Oncology\n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Margaret P Battin,
MFA, PhD","credentials":["Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy and
Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities\n","University of
Utah"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Lisa M Bellini, MD","credentials":["Professor of
Medicine\n","University of Pennsylvania Medical Center"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Mark Bilsky, MD","credentials":["Attending Neurologic Surgeon\n","Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center\n","Professor Neurologic Surgery\n","Weill Medical
College of Cornell University"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Sharon L Bober,
PhD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Psychiatry\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Jeffrey A Bogart, MD","credentials":["Professor
& Chair\n","Department of Radiation Oncology\n","Upstate Medical
University"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Liliana Bordeianou, MD, MPH","credentials":
["Associate Professor of Surgery\n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Barry A Borlaug, MD","credentials":["Section Editor — Heart
Failure\n","Professor of Medicine\n","Mayo Clinic College of
Medicine"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: AstraZeneca;
Corvia; MAST Therapeutics; Medtronic; Mesoblast; GlaxoSmithKline; Novartis [Heart
failure]. Consultant/Advisory Boards: Actelion; Amgen; Merck; AstraZeneca;
MyoKardia [Heart failure]."},{"name":"D Craig Brater, MD","credentials":["Emeritus
Dean, Indiana University School of Medicine\n","Vice President for Programs,
Regenstrief Foundation"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"William Breitbart,
MD","credentials":["Professor of Clinical Psychiatry\n","Weill Medical College of
Cornell University\n","Chairman\n","Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences\n","Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Kathleen Broglio, DNP, ANP-BC, ACHPN, CPE, FPCN","credentials":["Nurse
Practitioner - Palliative Care\n","Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical
Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Paul Brown, MD","credentials":["Professor
Radiation Oncology\n","Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN"],"disclosure":"Other Financial
Interest: Novella [DMC Member (None)]."},{"name":"Eduardo Bruera,
MD","credentials":["Section Editor — Non Pain Symptoms: Assessment and
Management\n","Professor of Oncology\n","University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer
Center at Houston"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Helsinn
[Nausea, cachexia (Netupitant, Anamorelin)]."},{"name":"Gary Buckholz, MD,
FAAHPM","credentials":["Associate Clinical Professor\n","Doris Howell Palliative
Care Service\n","University of California, San Diego"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Matthew R Callstrom, MD, PhD","credentials":["Professor of
Radiology\n","Mayo Clinic"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research Support: Galil Medical
(lung ablation trial [Cryoablation system]); EDDA Technology, Inc. [image
registration system]. Consultant/Advisory Boards: Covidien; Medtronic [RF ablation
(RF ablation)]; Johnson and Johnson [MW ablation (MW ablation)] Thermedical [RF
ablation (RF ablation)]."},{"name":"Elizabeth Chaitin, DHCE","credentials":
["Assistant Professor, Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics
Services\n","University of Pittsburgh Medical Center"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Victor T Chang, MD","credentials":["Professor of Medicine,\n","Rutgers New
Jersey Medical School,\n","VA New Jersey Health Care System"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Nathan Cherny, MD","credentials":["Associate Professor of Medicine\n","Ben
Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheba, Israel"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Julie W Childers, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of
Medicine\n","University of Pittsburgh"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Audrey Kurash
Cohen, MS, CCC-SLP","credentials":["Department of Speech, Language and Swallowing
Disorders, Massachusetts General Hospital\n","Adjunct Clinical Faculty,
Communication and Sciences Department\n","Massachusetts General Hospital Institute
of Health Professions"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"David J Copenhaver,
MD","credentials":["Director of Cancer Pain Management and Supportive Care,
Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Department \n","University of California at
Davis"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"J Randall Curtis, MD, MPH","credentials":
["Professor of Medicine\n","University of Washington"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Shalini Dalal, MD","disclosure":""},{"name":"Timothy A Damron,
MD","credentials":["Vice-Chair and David G. Murray Endowed Professor of Orthopedic
Surgery\n","SUNY Upstate Medical University"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical
Trial Support: Stryker [Vitoss bone graft subsitute (Vitoss); Revision total joint
clinical trial (Triathlon revision total knees)]; Wright Medical [Prodense bone
graft substitute (Prodense)]."},{"name":"Marion Danis, MD","credentials":["Ethics
Consultant"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Malcolm M DeCamp, MD","credentials":["Fowler
McCormick Professor of Surgery\n","Northwestern University Feinberg School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Egidio Del Fabbro, MD","credentials":
["Associate Professor of Hematology/Oncology and Palliative Care\n","Virginia
Commonwealth University"],"disclosure":"Consultant/Advisory Boards: Helsinn
[Cachexia (Anamorelin, Granisetron)]; INSYS [Cachexia (Dronabinol)]."},
{"name":"Mark H DeLegge, MD, FACG, AGAF","credentials":["Professor of
Medicine\n","Medical University of South Carolina"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Karen
Detering, MD","credentials":["Clinical Ethicist, Respiratory Physician\n","Medical
Director, Advance Care Planning Australia\n","Austin Medical Center,
Australia"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Rony Dev, DO","credentials":["Assistant
Professor\n","University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Lara K Dhingra, PhD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Neurology and
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences\n","Albert Einstein College of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Steven J DiBiase, MD","credentials":
["Professor of Radiation Oncology\n","Tulane University School of
Medicine\n","Medical Director, Department of Radiation Oncology\n","Tulane Cancer
Center"],"disclosure":"Speaker’s Bureau: Bayer Pharmaceuticals [Prostate cancer
(Radium 223)]."},{"name":"Anna L Dickerman, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor
of Psychiatry\n","Weill Medical College of Cornell University"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Reed E Drews, MD","credentials":["Section Editor — Complications of
Cancer\n","Associate Professor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Deborah Dudgeon, MD, FRCPC","credentials":["W.
Ford Connell Professor of Palliative Care Medicine\n","Director of Palliative Care
Medicine, Queens University\n","Head, Palliative Medicine & Supportive Care
Program, Kingston Regional Cancer Centre, Kingston, ON"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Scott K Epstein, MD","credentials":["Professor of Medicine\n","Tufts
University School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Karen Evans,
MD","credentials":["Associate Professor\n","Georgetown University Medical
Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Betty Ferrell, PhD, MA, FAAN,
FPCN","credentials":["Director and Professor, Division of Nursing Research and
Education\n","City of Hope Medical Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Joseph
Francis, Jr, MD, MPH","credentials":["Deputy Chief Improvement and Analytics
Officer\n","Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Erik K Fromme, MD","credentials":["Member of the faculty of Harvard
Medical School\n","Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana
Farber Cancer Institute"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Nestor Galvez-Jimenez, MD, MSc,
MHSA, FACP","credentials":["The Pauline M. Braathen Endowed Chair \n","Chairman,
Department of Neurology \n","Cleveland Clinic Florida \n","Clinical Professor of
Neurology \n","Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine"],"disclosure":"Other Financial
Interests: Royalties received from Cambridge University Press [Editor (Parkinson’s
Disease Current and Future Therapeutics and Clinical Trials; Unusual Movement
Disorders)]. Royalties received from Taylor & Francis [Editor (Scientific Basis for
the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease)]."},{"name":"Ann C Garlitski, MD, FACC,
FHRS","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Medicine\n","Hofstra North Shore-LIJ
School of Medicine\n","Hofstra University"],"disclosure":"Other Financial Interest:
Medtronic [Medical consultation/education and training support (Cryo ablation for
AF)]; Biosense; Webster [Medical consultation/education and training support]; EPD-
Solutions LTD [Medical consultation]."},{"name":"Tessa Goldsmith, MA, CCC-
SLP","credentials":["Department of Speech, Language and Swallowing Disorders,
Massachusetts General Hospital\n","Adjunct Clinical Faculty, Communication and
Sciences Department\n","Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health
Professions"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"MeiLan King Han, MD, MS","credentials":
["Associate Professor\n","University of Michigan Medical
Center"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research Support: Novartis [COPD (Indacaterol,
indacaterol/glycopyrrolate, glycopyrronium bromide)]; Sunovion [COPD (Indacaterol;
glycopyrronium; indacaterol and glycopyrrolate)]. Consultant/Advisory Boards:
Novartis [COPD (Indacaterol, indacaterol/glycopyrrolate, glycopyrronium bromide)];
GSK [COPD [Umeclidinium, umeclidinium and vilanterol, fluticasone furoate and
vilanterol)]; BI [COPD (Tiotropium, tiotropium bromide and olodaterol)];
AstraZeneca [COPD (Budesonide/formoterol fumarate dehydrate,
glycopyrrolate/formoterol fumarate); Sunovion [COPD (Indacaterol; glycopyrronium;
indacaterol and glycopyrrolate)]."},{"name":"George Handzo, BCC,
CSSBB","credentials":["Director of Health Services Research &
Quality\n","HealthCare Chaplaincy, New York, NY"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Laura C
Hanson, MD, MPH","credentials":["Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatric
Medicine\n","University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Stephanie M Harman, MD","credentials":["Clinical Associate
Professor\n","Stanford University School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Julie Hauer, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor\n","Children's
Hospital Boston"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Jeremy M Hirst, MD","credentials":
["Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences\n","Associate Director,
Palliative Care Psychiatry \n","University of UC San Diego Health \n","Director of
Psychiatry & Psychosocial Services; Patient & Family Support
Services\n","University of California San Diego, Moores Cancer
Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Brian D Hoit, MD","credentials":["Professor of
Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics\n","Case Western Reserve University and
University Hospitals of Cleveland"],"disclosure":"Speaker's Bureau: Philips Medical
[Heart valve disease (3D Transesophageal echo)]."},{"name":"Jean L Holley, MD,
FACP","credentials":["Clinical Professor of Medicine\n","University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Scott A Irwin, MD, PhD","credentials":
["Associate Professor of Psychiatry\n","Director, Supportive Care
Services\n","Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute\n","Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Margaret Isaac, MD","credentials":["Associate
Professor of Medicine\n","University of Washington"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Koto
Ishida, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Neurology\n","NYU Medical
Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH","credentials":
["Associate Professor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Pfizer, Inc [Breast
cancer (Early intervention palliative care trial)]."},{"name":"Daisy JA Janssen,
MD, PhD","credentials":["Research coordinator, Centre of Expertise for Palliative
care\n","Maastricht University Medical Centre"],"disclosure":"Consultant/Advisory
Boards: Mayne Pharma [Palliative care (Morphine)]."},{"name":"Noelle Marie Javier,
MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative
Care\n","Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Milind Javle, MD","credentials":["Professor of Medicine\n","University of
Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center\n","Department of GI Medical
Oncology"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Lisa A Kachnic, MD","credentials":["Chair and
Professor\n","Department of Radiation Oncology\n","Vanderbilt University School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Yair Y Keilson, MD","credentials":["Adjunct
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine\n","Touro College of Osteopathic
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Paul Kim, DPM, MS","credentials":["Associate
Professor\n","Department of Plastic Surgery\n","Georgetown University School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Acelity [wound care
(negative pressure wound therapy)]; Integra [wound care (bilayer skin replacement
system)]. Consultant/Advisory Boards: Acelity [wound care (negative pressure wound
therapy)]; Integra [wound care (bilayer skin replacement system)]."},{"name":"Holly
M Koncicki, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor \n","Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Suresh Kumar, MBBS, DA, Dip Palmed,
MA","credentials":["Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Community Participation
in Palliative Care and Long Term Care, Institute of Palliative Medicine\n","Medical
College, Calicut, Kerala, India"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Anil Nicholas Kurup,
MD","credentials":["Associate Professor of Radiology\n","Mayo Clinic College of
Medicine"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Galil Medical
[ablation of skeletal metastases (multiple cryoablation systems)]"},{"name":"Ruth L
Lagman, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAHPM","credentials":["The Harry R. Horvitz Center for
Palliative Medicine and Supportive Oncology \n","Taussig Cancer
Institute\n","Cleveland Clinic"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"John D Lantos,
MD","credentials":["Professor of Pediatrics\n","University of Missouri - Kansas
City"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Thomas W LeBlanc, MD, MA","credentials":
["Assistant Professor of Medicine\n","Duke University School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Sei Lee, MD","credentials":["Assistant Adjunct
Professor\n","University of California, San Francisco"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Lionel U Mailloux, MD, FACP","credentials":["Clinical Professor of
Medicine\n","Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Elizabeth
McCormick, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative
Medicine\n","Mount Sinai School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Zankhana
Mehta, MD","credentials":["Department of Palliative and Supportive
Medicine\n","Geisinger Medical Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Diane E Meier,
MD, FACP","credentials":["Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care
\n","Director, Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine\n","Professor, Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Sebastiano Mercadante, MD","credentials":
["Professor of Palliative Medicine\n","University of Palermo"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Jessica Merlin, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor\n","University of
Alabama at Birmingham"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Fremonta L Meyer,
MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Psychiatry\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Laura Miller-Smith, MD","credentials":
["Assistant Professor of Pediatrics\n","University of Missouri-Kansas City School
of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Susan L Mitchell, MD, MPH","credentials":
["Professor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Marcos Montagnini, MD","credentials":["Professor of Internal
Medicine\n","University of Michigan"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"R Sean Morrison,
MD","credentials":["Section Editor — Selected End Stage Conditions\n","Hermann
Merkin Professor of Palliative Care\n","Mount Sinai School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Timothy J Moynihan, MD","credentials":
["Associate Professor of Medical Oncology\n","Mayo Clinic College of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Anna C Muriel, MD","credentials":["Assistant
Professor of Psychiatry\n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Lida
Nabati, MD","credentials":["Instructor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Eiad Nasser, MD","credentials":["University at
Buffalo\n","Gastroenterology Division"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"James J
O'Connell, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Tomasz R Okon, MD","credentials":["Clinical
Assistant Professor\n","Department of Internal Medicine\n","University of Wisconsin
- Madison\n","Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"David
Oliver, BSc FRCP FRCGP","credentials":["Honorary Professor\n","University of
Kent"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Lynn Bunch O'Neill, MD","credentials":["Associate
Professor\n","Emory University School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, MA, LCSW, ACSW, OSW-C","credentials":
["Consultant\n","Collaborative Caring"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Joseph G
Ouslander, MD","credentials":["Professor of Clinical Biomedical
Science\n","Associate Dean for Geriatric Programs\n","Charles E Schmidt College of
Biomedical Science\n","Florida Atlantic
University"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: National
Institutes of Health [Reducing unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing home
residents]; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [Reducing unnecessary
hospitalizations of nursing home residents]; Commonwealth Fund [Reducing
unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing home residents]; Retirement Research
Foundation [Reducing unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing home residents];
Florida Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association [Multicomponent care
transitions intervention for high-risk older adults]; PointClickCare [Reducing
unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing home residents; embedding the INTERACT
program into software]; Medline Industries [online curriculum on the INTERACT
program]; Think Research [long-term care (INTERACT-compatible order sets)].
Consultant/Advisory Boards: Pathway Health [education on INTERACT for nursing
homes, assisted living, and home health]; Think Research [long-term care (INTERACT-
compatible order sets)]; NaviHealth [Care transitions and bundled payments]; Curavi
[Telemedicine for long-term care; reducing unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing
home residents]. Other Financial Interest: Pathway Health [royalties (INTERACT
materials)]."},{"name":"Meera Pahuja, MD","credentials":["Assistant
Professor\n","Virginia Commonwealth University Hospital System"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Thaddeus M Pope, JD, PhD","credentials":["Director, Health Law
Institute\n","Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law (Saint Paul,
MN)"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Russell K Portenoy, MD","credentials":["Chief
Medical Officer\n","MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care\n","Professor of Neurology and
Family and Social Medicine\n","Albert Einstein College of
Medicine"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: AstraZeneca [Pain
(Opioid antagonist)]; Tabula Rasa [Decision support]."},{"name":"Christina M
Puchalski, MD, MS, FACP, FAAHPM","credentials":["Director and Professor\n","George
Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, School of Medicine and Health
Sciences\n","The George Washington University, Washington, DC"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Timothy E Quill, MD","credentials":["Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and
Medical Humanities \n","University of Rochester School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Dmitry J Rabkin, MD, PhD","credentials":
["Assistant Professor\n","Harvard Medical School\n","Division of Angiography and
Interventional Radiology\n","Brigham and Women's Hospital"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Lynn F Reinke, PhD, ARNP","credentials":["Clinical Associate Professor,
School of Nursing\n","Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems,
University of Washington"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Laurie Rosenblatt,
MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Medicine)\n","Harvard
Medical School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Ellen WK Rosenquist, MD","credentials":
["Section Editor — Acute and Chronic Pain\n","Assistant Professor of
Anesthesiology\n","Department of Pain Management\n","Cleveland Clinic
Foundation"],"disclosure":"Equity Ownership/Stock Options (spouse): KURE Pain
Holdings, LLC (Member of Board of Directors)."},{"name":"Peter P Roy-Byrne,
MD","credentials":["Editor-in-Chief — Psychiatry\n","Section Editor — Depressive
Disorders\n","Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences\n","University of
Washington School of Medicine"],"disclosure":"Employment: Mass Medical Society
(journal Watch); Wiley Lliss (Depression and Anxiety) [Editor in Chief]. Stock
Options: Valant Medical Solutions [behavioral health (EMR)]."},{"name":"Bruce A
Runyon, MD","credentials":["Section Editor — Cirrhosis and Its
Complications\n","Special Hepatology Consultant to the Indian Health Service
\n","Northern Navajo Medical Center, Shiprock, New Mexico"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"A Oliver Sartor, MD","credentials":["Laborde Professor for Cancer
Research\n","Medical Director, Tulane Cancer Center\n","Depts. of Medicine and
Urology\n","Tulane Medical School"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial
Support: Bayer [Prostate cancer (Radium-223)]; Endocyte [Prostate cancer (EC1169)];
Innocrin [Prostate cancer (VT464)]; Johnson & Johnson [Prostate cancer
(Abiraterone)]; Sanofi-Aventis [Prostate cancer (Cabazitaxel)]; Merk [Prostate
cancer]. Consultant/Advisory Boards: AstraZeneca [Prostate cancer]; Bayer [Prostate
cancer (Radium-223)]; Bellicum [Prostate cancer (vaccine development)]; Bristol-
Myers Squibb [Prostate cancer (Nivolumab)]; Celgene [Prostate cancer
(Lenalidomide)]; Dendreon [Prostate cancer (Sipuleucel-T)]; EMD Serono [Prostate
cancer]; Johnson & Johnson [Prostate cancer (ARN-509, abiraterone)]; OncogeneX
[Prostate cancer (Custirsen)]; Pfizer [Prostate cancer]; Sanofi-Aventis [Prostate
cancer (Cabazitaxel)]; Tokai [Prostate cancer (Galeterone)]; NRG Oncology
[Genitourinary cancer (Co-chairman of Genitourinary cancer committee)];
Constellation [Prostate cancer]; Endocyte [Prostate cancer]; Advanced Accelerator
Applications [Prostate cancer]; Bavarian-Nordic [Prostate cancer]."},{"name":"Diane
MF Savarese, MD","credentials":["Senior Deputy Editor — UpToDate\n","Deputy Editor
— Oncology and Palliative Care\n","Clinical Instructor of Medicine\n","Harvard
Medical School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Yael Schenker, MD","credentials":
["Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine\n","Section of
Palliative Care and Medical Ethics\n","University of Pittsburgh"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"David Schiff, MD","credentials":["Professor of Neurology, Neurological
Surgery, and Medicine\n","University of Virginia School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Cavion [GBM
(Mibefradil)]; Tocagen [GBM, AA (Toca 511)]; Bayer [IDHmt gliomas (BAY 1436032)];
BeiGene [GBM (BGB-290)]. Consultant/Advisory Boards: Orbus [AA (Eflornithine)];
Monteris [GBM (LITT probe)]."},{"name":"Peter A Selwyn, MD, MPH","credentials":
["Professor and Chairman, Department of Family and Social Medicine\n","Montefiore
Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Joshua Shadd, MD, CCFP","credentials":["Assistant Professor, Division of
Palliative Care, Department of Family Medicine\n","McMaster University Faculty of
Health Sciences"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Mark Edwin Shaffrey, MD","credentials":
["Professor and Chairman \n","UVA Health System\n","Department of Neurological
Surgery"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Mehnaz A Shafi, MD","credentials":["Professor
of Medicine\n","Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition\n","MD
Anderson Cancer Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Maria J Silveira, MD, MA,
MPH","credentials":["Section Editor — Special Sites of Care and Allied Health
Professions\n","Clinician Scientist\n","Ann Arbor VAMC\n","Associate Professor of
Internal Medicine\n","University of Michigan"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Alexander
Smith, MD","credentials":["Associate Professor of Medicine\n","University
of California, San Francisco"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"E Alessandra Strada, PhD,
MSCP, FT","credentials":["Director of Integrative Medicine and Bereavement
Services\n","MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care, MJHS Hospice and
Palliative Care, New York City\n","Adjunct Associate Professor of East-West
Psychology\n","California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco\n","Adjunct
Faculty, Postdoctoral Ps"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Lisa Thompson,
DMD","credentials":["Clinical Instructor in Oral Health Policy and
Epidemiology\n","Harvard School of Dental Medicine"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Nathaniel S Treister, DMD, DMSc","credentials":["Assistant Professor of
Oral Medicine\n","Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity\n","Harvard
School of Dental Medicine\n","Division of Oral Medicine & Dentistry\n","Brigham and
Women's Hospital"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"James Tulsky, MD","credentials":
["Professor of Medicine \n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Martha L Twaddle, MD, FACP, FAAHPM","credentials":["Associate Professor of
Medicine\n","Northwestern University Feinberg School of
Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Simon Veronese, MD, MSc, PhD","credentials":
["Fondazione Faro Onlus, Palliative Care Department\n","Turin,
Italy"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Alessandro Villa, DDS, PhD, MPH","credentials":
["Instructor, Department of Oral Medicine, Infection and Immunity\n","Harvard
School of Dental Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Charles von Gunten, MD,
PhD","credentials":["Vice President, Medical Affairs, Hospice and Palliative
Medicine\n","OhioHealth, Columbus, OH"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Anne M Walling,
MD, PhD","credentials":["Assistant Professor\n","University of California, Los
Angeles"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Jeremy D Walston, MD","credentials":["Raymond
and Anna Lublin Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology\n","Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Gerald L Weinhouse,
MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Neil Wenger, MD","credentials":["Professor of
Medicine\n","University of California, Los Angeles"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Douglas B White, MD, MAS","credentials":["Vice Chair and Professor of
Critical Care Medicine; Director, Program on Ethics and Critical Care
Medicine\n","University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Gary S Winzelberg, MD, MPH","credentials":["Associate Professor, Division
of Geriatric Medicine\n","University of North Carolina"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Gordon J Wood, MD, MSCI, FAAPHM","credentials":["Assistant Professor of
Medicine\n","Section of Palliative Medicine Northwestern University Feinberg School
of Medicine"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Daniel Dante Yeh, MD","credentials":
["Assistant Professor of Surgery\n","University of Miami\n","Ryder Trauma
Center\n","Department of Surgery, Division of
Trauma"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Nestle [Nutrition in
the ICU (Peptamen Bariatric)];KCI [Wound care (Prevena VAC)]. Consultant/Advisory
Boards: Covidien [Feeding tubes (Kangaroo feeding tube)]."},{"name":"Sriram
Yennurajalingam, MD","credentials":["Associate Professor, Department of Palliative
Care and Rehabilitation Medicine\n","University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
at Houston"],"disclosure":"Grant/Research/Clinical Trial Support: Genentech
[patient experience]; Bayer [fatigue (fish oil and exercise)]; Helsinn [fatigue
(Anamorelin)]."},{"name":"G Bryan Young, MD, FRCPC","credentials":["Professor of
Neurology\n","University of Western Ontario, Canada"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Mark Yurkofsky, MD","credentials":["Assistant Professor of
Medicine\n","Harvard Medical School"],"disclosure":""}]},{"name":"Peer
Reviewers","contributors":[{"name":"Craig D Blinderman, MD, MA","credentials":
["Director, Adult Palliative Care Services\n","Columbia
University"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Mary Buss, MD","credentials":["Assistant
Professor of Medicine\n","Harvard Medical
School"],"disclosure":"Consultant/Advisory Boards: Vital Talk [communication
skills]."},{"name":"Richard J Cohen, MD, FACP","credentials":["Clinical Professor
of Medicine\n","University of California, San Francisco"],"disclosure":""},
{"name":"Andrew S Epstein, MD","credentials":["Assistant Attending \n","Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Robert M Kotloff,
MD","credentials":["Chairman, Department of Pulmonary Medicine \n","Respiratory
Institute Cleveland Clinic"],"disclosure":""},{"name":"Christian T Sinclair,
MD","credentials":["Associate Professor\n","University of Kansas Medical
Center"],"disclosure":"Consultant/Advisory Boards: Compassus [hospice]."}]}]}