Care of the Dying Patient

Notes on the Contributors

Notes on the Contributors 145 Clay M. Anderson, MD, FACP, is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, and is Director of the Missouri Palliative Care Program. He also has faculty appointments in the University of Missouri Center for Health Ethics as a clinical ethicist and in the Sinclair School of Nursing as a teacher and research collaborator and is a part-time Senior Medical Director for Hospice Compassus, Inc.–Columbia Office. He is board certified in palliative care, medical oncology, and internal medicine, and leads his team in caring for people and families living with life-limiting illnesses of many kinds. He teaches and generates original work for the University of Missouri School of Medicine, University of Missouri Health Care, and beyond in the areas of end-of-life care, hospice and palliative care, pain management, palliative /supportive oncology, patient-physician communication, narrative medicine, and spirituality and health care. His education includes an undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri, an MD degree from Stanford University, and postgraduate training from the University of Colorado in Denver and the University of Texas–M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He has been on the faculty in the School of Medicine since 1997. He lives in Columbia with his wife, Michelle, and their three children and enjoys reading, fly fishing, duck hunting, camping, hiking, cooking, wine tasting , and playing games with his family. He is active in his church home in Columbia, Calvary Episcopal Church. 146 Notes on the Contributors David A. Fleming, MD, MA, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Director of the University of Missouri Center for Health Ethics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. He served as a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services primary care research fellow at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University from 1999 to 2001. His academic career is balanced by having practiced internal medicine and geriatrics for nearly twenty years in a small rural community. Dr. Fleming’s primary areas of research interest include health disparity, teleethics, care of vulnerable populations, end-of-life care, organizational ethics, and research ethics. He is also collaborating to coordinate a statewide ethics consortium to address the ethical issues of pandemic response. John C. Hagan III, MD, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is Editor of Missouri Medicine medical journal and is a two-time winner of the Ranly Award for best state medical writing. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and Loyola Stritch Medical School, and did his residency at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals, served as president of his state specialty association, and is the 2010 President of the Metropolitan Medical Society of Greater Kansas City. David R. Mehr, MD, MS, is Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. He graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, received his MD degree from the University of California at San Francisco, and earned an MS degree from the University of Michigan (completed during a fellowship in geriatric medicine ). He is board certified in Family Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. He was a visiting scholar for a year at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. Dr. Mehr has 147 Notes on the Contributors received major federal grants from the Agency for Health Policy and Research and the National Institute on Aging as well as a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He won the Research Paper Award from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in 2003. He served on the Health Services Organization and Delivery study section at the National Institutes of Health, has served on several guideline panels, and is a member of the American Geriatric Society’s Clinical Practice and Models of Care committee. His research interests include pneumonia outcomes, end-of-life care, and improving chronic disease care. Debra Parker Oliver, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri. She received her PhD in 2000 and her Master’s Degree in Social Work in 1982 from the University of Missouri. She is former president of the Missouri...