Diane E. Meier

Who is Diane E. Meier?

Diane E. Meier, MD, is an American geriatrician and the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. As an internationally recognized expert on palliative medicine, Meier has appeared in media including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC World News Tonight, The Open Mind with Richard Heffner, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the New York Daily News, Newsday, The New Yorker and Newsweek. She was featured in the Bill Moyers series On Our Own Terms: Dying in America, a four-part PBS documentary in 2002.

Meier is the director of the Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and professor of geriatrics and internal medicine and the Cather Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She has published more than 100 articles, four books and twenty-nine book chapters. She has completed fifteen grant projects and is currently the principal investigator on two grants. Under Meier's leadership, since 2004 CAPC doubled the number of palliative care programs in the U.S. She is one of four resident 2009-2010 Health and Aging Policy Fellows working with the U.S. Senate HELP committee.