Speakers

Stephen Berns, MD

• Assistant Professor
• Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute
• Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Zara Cooper, MD

• Assistant Professor of Surgery
• Harvard Medical School
• Department of Surgery
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Boston, MA

Helen M. Fernandez, MD, MPH

• Associate Professor
• Associate Director, Medical Education
• Director, Geriatrics Fellowship Program
• Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Michael L. Frankenthaler, MD, FCCP

• Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Hofstra-NS/LIJ School of Medicine
• Hempstead, NY
• Medical Director, Hospice Care Network
• Director, Palliative Medicine Unit
• North Shore University Hospital
• Manhasset, NY

Elizabeth Lindenberger, MD

• Assistant Professor
• Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• Fellowship Program Education Director
• Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute
• Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)
• James J. Peters VA Medical Center
• Bronx, NY

Ursula A. McVeigh, MD

• Interim Medical Director, Fletcher Allen
• Palliative Care Medicine Physician
• Fletcher Allen Assistant Professor
• University of Vermont College of Medicine

Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP

• The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care
• Institute Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics
• Vice Chair for Public Policy
• Professor Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
• Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care

Sonni Mun, MD

• Medical Director of The Haven Visiting Nurse Service of New York
• Inpatient Hospice Unit
• Bellevue Medical Center
• New York, NY

Cynthia X. Pan, MD, AGSF, FACP

• Adjunct Associate Professor
• Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• Director, Palliative Care
• New York Hospital Queens
• Flushing, NY

Eugene Perlov, MD

• Physician, Integrative Palliative
• Regional Medical Director
• Visiting Nurse Service of New York
• New York, NY

Elizabeth M. Rickerson, MD

• Department of Anesthesiology
• Perioperative and Pain Medicine
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Boston, MA

Cardinale B. Smith, MD, MSCR

• Assistant Professor
• Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology
• The Tisch Cancer Institute
• Lilian and Benjamin Herzberg
• Palliative Care Institute Brookdale
• Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Mark Swidler, MD

• Associate Professor
• Department of Medicine
• Division of Nephrology
• Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Speakers

Charles E. Argoff, MD

• Professor of Neurology
• Albany Medical College
• Director, Comprehensive Pain Center
• Albany Medical Center
• Albany, NY

Paul Arnstein, RN, PhD, FAAN

• Connell Nursing Research Scholar
• Clinical Nurse Specialist for Pain Relief
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Boston, MA

Zahid H. Bajwa, MD

• Director, Headache Institute
• Director of Clinical Research
• Boston Pain Care Center
• Waltham, MA

R. Norman Harden, MD

• Director, Center for Pain Studies
• Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
• Associate Professor
• Northwestern University
• The Feinberg School of Medicine
• Addison Chair in Pain Studies
• Chicago, IL

Robert N. Jamison, PhD

• Professor
• Department of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Harvard Medical School
• Boston, MA

Donald B. Levy, MD

• Medical Director
• Osher Clinical Center for Complementary
• Integrative Medical Therapies
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
• Harvard Medical School
• Boston, MA

Elizabeth W. Loder, MD, MPH

• Chief, Division of Headache and Pain
• Department of Neurology
• Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital
• Boston, MA

Edward Michna, MD

• Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
• Harvard Medical School
• Director, Pain Trials Center
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Boston, MA

Sanjeet Narang, MD

• Director, Oncology Pain Management
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Harvard Medical School
• Boston, MA

Srdjan S. Nedeljkovic, MD

• Fellowship Director, Pain Medicine
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Boston, MA

Steven P. Stanos, Jr., DO

• Director, Corporate Pain Services
• Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
• Former Medical Director
• Center for Pain Management
• Attending Physician
• Center for Pain Management
• Assistant Professor
• Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Assistant Program Director
• Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship
• Northwestern University
• The Feinberg School of Medicine
• Chicago, IL

Assia T. Valovska, MD

• Head of Pelvic Pain Division
• Department of Anesthesiology
• Pain and Perioperative Medicine
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Harvard Medical School
• Boston, MA

Ajay Wasan, MD

• Associate Professor
• Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry
• Harvard Medical School
• Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Boston, MA