Ira Byock, Anthony Bossis & Craig D. Blinderman

Teaches at New York Open Center

Ira Byock, MD, FAAHPM is a leading palliative care physician, author, and public advocate for improving care through the end of life. He is Founder and Chief Medical Officer of the Institute for Human Caring of Providence Health and Services based in Torrance, CA. The Institute advances efforts to measure, monitor and improve person-centered care system wide and supports culturally diverse communities in expanding models of caring. Dr. Byock is Professor of Medicine and Community & Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He served as Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire from 2003 through July 2013. He is the author of Dying Well, The Four Things That Matter Most, and The Best Care Possible.


Anthony Bossis, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. He was director of palliative care research, co-principal investigator, and a session guide for the NYU Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Study and is Project Director for the NYU Psilocybin Religious Leaders Study. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in NYC.


Craig D. Blinderman, MD, MA, FAAHPM, is the director of Adult Palliative Care Service and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.