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Amy P. Abernethy, Center for Learning Health Care, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

Janet L. Abrahm, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MN, USA

Andy Adam, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, MN, USA

Michael L. Adams, Anesthesiologist, Private Practice, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Meera Agar, Department of Palliative Care and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Braeside Hospital HammondCare, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Yesne Alici, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Terry Altilio, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Limor Amit, Department of Medical Oncology, Davidoff Cancer Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikvah, Israel

Bethany M. Andrews, School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Barry R. Ashpole, Guelph, ON, Canada

Thomas M. Atkinson, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Brian Badgwell, Department of Surgery, MD, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Lea Baider, Psychological Services, Assuta Hospital, Tel Aviv; Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Vickie E. Baracos, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Jane Ellen Barr, WOC Patient Care Services, Department of Nursing Administration, North Shore-LIJ Health System; Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, USA

Jeffrey R. Basford, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, MN, USA

Steven Bayles, Vanderbilt-Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Nashville, TN, USA

Michael I. Bennett, Academic Unit of Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Rachelle Bernacki, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

Cheryl R. Billante, Vanderbilt Voice Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Craig D. Blinderman, Adult Palliative Care Services, Center for Supportive Care & Clinical Ethics, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Stewart Bond, Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, TN, USA

Georg Bosshard, Clinic for Geriatric Medicine, Zurich University Hospital; Center on Aging and Mobility, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Mark Bower, National Centre for HIV Malignancy, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, UK

Ruth Branford, Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice, London, UK

William S. Breitbart, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Frank Brennan, Department of Palliative Care, Calvary and St George Hospitals, Kogarah, Sydney, Australia

Jennifer Brodeur, Palliative Care Unit, Division of Palliative Care, The Ottawa Hospital; Bruyère Continuing Care, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Eduardo Bruera, Department of Palliative Care & Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Kirsty Campbell, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

Augusto Caraceni, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy; European Palliative Care Research Centre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

David Casarett, Professor of Medicine, Director of Hospice and Palliative Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

J. Brian Cassel, Division of Hematology/Oncology & Palliative Care, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Barrie R. Cassileth, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Kin-Sang Chan, Department of Medicine, Haven of Hope Hospital, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong

Victor T. Chang, Rutgers—New Jersey Medical School, Section Hematology Oncology; VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ, USA

Martin Chasen, Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Nathan I. Cherny, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Andrea L. Cheville, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, MN, USA

Harvey Max Chochinov, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba; Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Katherine Clark, Calvary Mater Newcastle, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

Josephine M. Clayton, HammondCare Palliative and Supportive Care Service, Greenwich Hospital, Sydney; Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Anthony J. Cmelak, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA

John J. Collins, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

Lesley A. Colvin, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

Jill Cooper, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Michael J. Cousins, Pain Management & Research Centre, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Sarah Cox, Department of Palliative Care, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and Trinity Hospice, London, UK

LaVera Crawley, Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Paediatrics, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, California, CA, USA

Ricardo A. Cruciani, Director, Center for Comprehensive Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Institute for Neurosciences, Capital Health Medical Center, Hopewell, NJ, USA

David C. Currow, Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

David Dahan, Department of Intensive Care, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Patricia M. Davidson, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Isobel Davidson, School of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK

Andrew N. Davies, Supportive & Palliative Care Department, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, UK

Liliana De Lima, International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Houston, TX, USA

Luc Deliens, End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jane deLima Thomas, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Attending Physician, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

Gary Deng, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Paul L. DeSandre, Emory Palliative Care Center and Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

Lara Dhingra, Director, Health Disparities and Outcomes Research, MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care, New York, NY, USA

Anthony H. Dickenson, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK

Matthew Doolittle, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Ellie Dowling, Vanderbilt-Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Nashville, TN, USA

Alexandra M. Easson, Attending Physician, Mount Sinai Hospital; Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Wendy Edmonds, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

Sharon Einav, Department of Intensive Care, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Jackie Ellis, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies (APSCS), University of Liverpool, UK

Frank Elsner, Department of Palliative Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Linda L. Emanuel, Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

Anne M. English, Dove House Hospice/Humber NHS Foundation Trust, Hull, UK

Christopher P. Evans, Department of Urology, University of California, Davis School of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA, USA

Marie T. Fallon, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Genetic and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, UK

John T. Farrar, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Kenneth C. H. Fearon, Professor of Surgical Oncology, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Edinburgh, Scotland

Nanna Brix Finnerup, Danish Pain Research Center, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Joseph J. Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Nurse Practitioner Palliative Care, Hebrew Senior Life, Beth Isreal Deconess Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

Kate Flemming, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK

David C. Free, Nurse Practioner, Season’s Hospice, Baltimore, MD, USA

Anne Marie Flores, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Karen Forbes, Department of Palliative Medicine, Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK

Nicos I. Fotiadis, Palliative Care & Rehabilitation Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Deborah Julie Franklin, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Health System, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Judith Frost, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

Reena George, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Georgina Gethin, School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Hans Gerdes, Attending Physician, Director of GI Endoscopy, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

Margaret Gibbs, St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, London, UK

Jane Gibbins, Cornwall Hospice Care, Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust and Peninsula Medical School

Gordon Giddings, Elisabeth Bruyere Hospital and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Afaf Girgis, Psycho-Oncology Research Group, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, University of New South Wales, Liverpool, NSW, Australia

Paul Glare, Palliative Medicine Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York; Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Richard M. Gordon-Williams, Medical doctor, Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College, London, UK

Patricia Grocott, Reader in Palliative Wound Care, Department of Postgraduate Research, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, London, UK

Liz Gwyther, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Richard D.W. Hain, Children’s Hospital, Cardiff, UK

Kirsten Haman, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

George Handzo, HealthCare Chaplaincy Network, New York, NY, USA

Joy Hao, Assistant Professor in Clinical Health Sciences, Department of Family Medicine, Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Janet R. Hardy, Department of Supportive and Palliative Care, Mater Health Services, Mater Research—University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Regional Centre of Excellence for Palliative Care, Western Norway, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen; European Palliative Care Research Centre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Alric D. Hawkins, Psychiatrist, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

John H. Healey, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

Irene J. Higginson, Cicely Saunders Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK

Amanda Hordern, Bayside Healthy Living, Hampton, VIC, Australia

Robert Horton, Palliative Medicine Consultant, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada

Annmarie Hosie, The University of Notre Dame Australia, School of Nursing, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia

Peter J. Hoskin, Consultant in Clinical Oncology, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, Middlesex; Professor in Clinical Oncology, University College London, UK

Jane M. Ingham, UNSW Australia, Faculty of Medicine, St Vincent’s Clinical School, Cunningham Centre for Palliative Care, Sacred Heart Health Service, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia

Troels Staehelin Jensen, Danish Pain Research Center and Department of Neurology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Rebecca Johnson, Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Stein Kaasa, European Palliative Care Research Centre (PRC), Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; Cancer Clinic, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

Menelaos Karanikolas, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Michael Kearney, Medical Director of the Palliative Care Service, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbera, CA, USA

Vaughan Keeley, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Derby, UK

Jeremy Keen, Highland Hospice, Inverness, UK

Jonathan Koffman, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, London, UK

Helena Knotkova, Director of Clinical Studies and Analytics, MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care, New York, NY, USA

Rae Lynne Kinler, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Timothy W. Kirk, City University of New York, York College, New York, NY, USA

David W. Kissane, Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Nina Kite, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Danielle N. Ko, Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia

Eric L. Krakauer, International Programs, Center for Palliative Care, Harvard Medical School; Division of Palliative Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Maia S. Kredentser, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Manitoba; Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Robert S. Krouse, Department of Surgery, Southern Arizona Health Care System and University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Judith Lacey, Palliative and Suportive Care Consultant Physician, St George Private Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Nina Laing, New York Department of Education, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Barry J.A. Laird, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; European Palliative Care Research Centre, Trondheim, Norway

Thomas W. LeBlanc, Division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA

Olivia T. Lee, Department of Urology, Davis School of Medicine, University of California, Sacramento, CA, USA

Carrie Lethborg, Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, Psychosocial Cancer Research, Cancer Services, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

Mari Lloyd-Williams, Director and Professor of Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies (APSCS), University of Liverpool, UK

Jon Håvard Loge, Department of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Charles L. Loprinzi, Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Stefan Lorenzl, Department of Neurology, LMU University Hospital Agatharied, Agatharied, Germany; University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Clinic and Policlinic of Palliative Care, LMU University Hospital Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

Michal Lotem, Center for Melanoma and Cancer Immunotherapy, Sharett Institute of Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Tim Luckett, Improving Palliative Care through Clinical Trials (ImPaCCT), University of Technology, Sydney; University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

David Lussier, Insitut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal, University of Montreal; Division of Geriatric Medicine and Alan-Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Tom Lynch, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine & Palliative Care Program, Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Core Faculty, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Kathryn A. Mannix, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Palliative Care Lead, NUTH, Netherlands

Cinzia Martini, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Lars Johan Materstvedt, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

Karen May, Piedmont Atlanta Hospital, Atlanta, GA; Visiting Nurse Health System, Hospice Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA

Susan E. McClement, College of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba; Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Renée McCulloch, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London; Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK

David McKeown, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Anja Mehnert, Division of Psychosocial Oncology, Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Centre Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Sharon Merims, Sharett Institute of Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Jessica S. Merlin, Division of Infectious Diseases, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Frederick J. Meyers, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA

Martha F. Mherekumombe, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

Joanne Michaud-Young, Department of Health—Province of New Brunswick, Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Unit, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Kelly Nichole Michelson, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA

Fliss E.M. Murtagh, Reader and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, King’s College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, UK

Amanda Moment, Dana Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Helen M. Moore, Sacred Heart Health Service, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney; UNSW Australia, St Vincent’s Clinical School, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Anna C. Muriel, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

Barbara A. Murphy, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Kyriaki Mystakidou, Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Aretaieion Hospital, Athens, Greece

Friedemann Nauck, Department of Palliative Medicine, University Medicine Göttingen, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

Georg S. Nübling, Departments of Neurology and Palliative Care, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Clare O’Callaghan, Caritas Christi Hospice, St Vincent’s Hospital; Palliative Care Service, Cabrini Health, Melbourne, Australia

Dianne L. O’Connell, Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Woolloomooloo NSW, Australia

Meera Pahuja, Division of Hematology/Oncology & Palliative Care, Division of Infectious Diseases, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Irene Panagiotou, Cicely Saunders Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK

Wisawatapnimit Panarut, Doctoral Student School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Steven Z. Pantilat, Palliative Care Program, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Efi Parpa, Pain Relief & Palliative Care Unit, Areteion Hospital; Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Steven D. Passik, Associate Attending Psychologist, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer center, New York, NY, USA

Sheila Payne, International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Jose Pereira, Professor and Head, Division of Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa and Medical Chief, Palliative Medicine, Bruyere Continuing Care and Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Jane L. Phillips, Professor Nursing (Palliative Care), Director Centre for Cardiovascular and Chronic Care, Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Adjunct Professor of Palliative Nursing, University of Notre Dame, and the School of Medicine, Sydney University, Australia

Thomas P. Pittelkow, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA

Mark R. Pittelkow, Department of Dermatology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Michael Piza, Clinical Governance Unit, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District; UNSW Australia, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Barbara Pohl, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Russell K. Portenoy, MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care, Chief Medical Officer, MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care, New York, NY, USA; Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York, NY, USA

Richard A. Powell, Nairobi, Kenya

Julie R. Price, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA

Sebastian Probst, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Nursing, Winterthur, Switzerland

Christina M. Puchalski, Professor, Medicine and Health Sciences Director, George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, WA, USA

Lukas Radbruch, Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

M. R. Rajagopal, WHO Collaborating Centre for Training and Policy on Access to Pain Relief, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Lesley K. Rao, Department of Anesthsiology, Division of Pain Management, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

Paula K. Rauch, Marjorie E. Korff Parenting At a Challenging Time Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Clare Rayment, Marie Curie Hospice, Bradford, Bradford, UK

Katherine L.P. Reid, Speech Pathology Department, Calvary Health Care Sydney; Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Rosemary Richardson, Macmillan Supporters Service, Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria, UK

Sheila Ridner, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, TN, USA

Carla I. Ripamonti, Head, Supportive Care in Cancer Unit, Department of Hematology and Pediatric Onco-Hematology, Fondazione IRCCS; Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy

Louise Robinson, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK

Graeme M. Rocker, Division of Respirology, Dalhousie University, Capital Health, Halifax, NS, Canada

Joy Ross, Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Palliative Care Service, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Tarun Sabharwal, Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Department of Radiology, St Thomas’s Hospital, London, UK

Natasha Samy, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia

Megan B. Sands, The Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Services, Sydney; University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Dirk Schrijvers, Department of Medical Oncology, Ziekenhuisnetwerk Antwerpen-Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium

Erin E. Schweers, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Peter A. Selwyn, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

Michael M.K. Sham, Palliative Medical Unit, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong

Deborah Witt Sherman, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

Fabio Simonetti, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Christian T. Sinclair, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

Per Sjøgren, Section of Palliative Medicine, Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Tinne Smets, End-of-Life Care Research Group VUB & Ghent University, Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Thomas J. Smith, Professor of Oncology, Harry J. Duffey Family Professor of Palliative Medicine, Director of Palliative Medicine, JHMI, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Eliezer Soto, Anesthesia Pain Care Consultants, Tamarac, FL, USA

Anthony E. Steimle, Department of Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Karen E. Steinhauser, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, VA Medical Center; Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham NC, USA

Patrick Stone, Marie Curie Chair of Palliative and End of Life Care, Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University College London (UCL), London, UK

Annette F. Street, Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Robert A. Swarm, Division of Pain Management, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Nigel P. Sykes, St Christopher’s Hospice, London, UK

Jennifer J. Tieman, Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

Doris M.W. Tse, Caritas Medical Centre, Hong Kong

Eleni Tsilika, Pain Relief and Palliative Care Unit, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Aretaieion Hospital, Athens, Greece

James A. Tulsky, Duke Palliative Care, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Raymond Voltz, Department of Palliative Medicine, University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Amy Waller, Health Behaviour Research Group, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Sharon M. Watanabe, Division of Palliative Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Simon Wein, Palliative Medicine, Davidoff Cancer Center, Beilinson Hospital, Petach Tikvah, Israel

Batsheva Werman, Senior physician and palliative care fellow, Department of Oncolgy and Palliative Care, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerrusalem, Israel

Eric Widera, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

Emily Wighton, The Royal Marsden & Royal Brompton Palliative Care Service, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Michèle J.M. Wood, Marie Curie Hospice, London; Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, UK

Cynthia Wu, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Jennifer N. Wu, Department of Urology and Cancer Center, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

Patsy Yates, Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia

Sriram Yennurajalingam, Department of Urology and Cancer Center, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

Talia I. Zaider, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Department of Psychiatry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

Lauren A. Zatarain, Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Nancy Y. Zhu, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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