Dan Callahan

President Emeritus, The Hastings Center

“American medicine is going through profound changes now. One of the most important is the care of the dying, a challenge  to medicine, our society, and to us as individuals.  Great progress has been made in recent years, but much more is needed. The Final Acts Project is a most welcome addition to those of us who have long worked to improve it, promising to bring some new and unique approaches.”

Louise Aronson
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Clinician-educator,  Director Northern California Geriatric Education Center, the UCSF Medical Humanities program, and the Pathways to Discovery Program,
associate editor for the JAMA Care of the Aging Patient series, Director of Public Medical Communication for the Program for the Aging Century.

Raymond Barfield, Duke University
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Christian Philosophy

Ruth Berggren, MD, UT Health Science Center, San Antonio
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Robert R. Biechlin, Jr., JD
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Partner in Thornton, Biechlin, Segrato, Reyonlds, & Guerro, LC; head of the firm’s Health Law Section. Recognized by his peers as a Texas Super Lawyer®, Best Lawyers in America®, and Best Lawyers in San Antonio. By virtue of his trial experience, he was invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates where he holds the rank of Advocate.

Soo Borson, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UWMC
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Ira Byock, Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer for the Institute for Human Caring of Providence Health and Services
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Daniel Callahan, President Emeritus, The Hastings Center
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Senior Research Scholar and President Emeritus of the Center
co-director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy

Arthur Leonard Caplan, PhD
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Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and the founding director of the Division of Medical Ethics in NYU Langone Medical Center’s Department of Population Health

William Julian Chapman, Tenor
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William Chapman brings a fresh, distinctive voice to the opera world that has been described as rare and intoxicating by musicians and opera lovers alike.

Jo Anne Martin Christian
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Former member of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel,faculty member Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, University. of Texas School of Law,admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Western Division, and Life Member of the Texas Bar Foundation.
Retired Attorney, though still licensed.

Mary Stinchcomb Cocke
President, Cocke Minerals, Inc.
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Robert R. “Bob” Cocke, Ph.D.
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Bob has an active interest in the relationship between the mind and disease resistance.

Rabbi Valerie Cohen
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Senior Rabbi, Temple Emanuel Sinai, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Mary Crescenzo
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Writer, playwright, poet, vocal coach, and arts facilitator for older adults.
A founding member of, and lecturer and curricula developer for Lifetime Arts. The founder of “An ABC Approach to Alzheimer’s Awareness and Care Through the Arts.”

Nan Cuba
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Author, investigative journalist, founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink

William Dale, MD, University of Chicago, Advisory Board
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Board-certified Internist, Geriatrician, Palliative Medicine physician and Health Policy PhD, and the Section Chief of Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine at the University of Chicago. The Founding Director of the Specialized Oncology Care & Research in the Elderly (SOCARE) clinic, reflecting a clinical, research, and educational interest in older adults with cancer.

Dr. James Doty, Stanford, Advisory Board
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Professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University, Expert in pediatric neurosurgery and formerly Chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital in Orange County, CA. Repeatedly honored a one of “America’s Top Surgeons” by the Consumers’ Research Council and “Best Doctors in America” by Best Doctors.
Founder and director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University in the Stanford Institute of Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences (SINTN) of which the Dalai Lama is the founding benefactor.

Wendy S.A. Edwards, MD
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Board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York Medical College

Alan Friedman
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Thaman Professor of English & Comp Lit
The University of Texas at Austin
Alan Warren Friedman specializes in modern British, Irish, and American literature, the novel, and Shakespearean drama.

Laura Gabrysch
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Attorney with substantial experience in advising and representing tax-exempt organizations on all matters related to tax-exempt status

Rebecca Gonzalez
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The Gonzalez Group President and Founder
Recognized leader in consulting with Fortune 200 companies in identifying and developing the organization’s culture in support of meeting business needs. Interventions have included: facilitation (at all levels), training, mentoring, shadowing, training and implementation of change management processes.

Gretchen McCord-DeFlorio, JD
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Attorney, consultant, and educator specializing in copyright law, privacy law, and other legal issues related to digital information

David L. John MD
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Specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine in Honolulu, Hawai’i

 John Kaercher, JD
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Comprehensive representation of corporate clients, including securities offerings, strategic transactions, disclosure, corporate governance and other matters

Sherry Kafka-Wagner, MFA
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Consultant, researcher, lecturer and writer.

Eleanor Beldon Komet, Ph.D.
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Dr. Komet is a Certified Group Psychotherapist and has been a frequent presenter at the American Group Psychotherapy Association’s annual meetings.

Brendan Parent, JD
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Instructor in the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center and an Assistant Professor in Sports and Society at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Martin Rabbett, Director/Actor/Writer

Nancy Ray
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Sr. Vice President/Chief Nurse Executive for University Health System (UHS)

Lyn Traverse
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Noreen Winningham, Ph.D.
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Dr Cheryl Woodson