Myra Glajchen Editor

Elaine Wittenberg is Associate Professor of Nursing Research and Education at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California Betty R. Ferrell is a Professor and Director of Nursing Rearch and Education at City of Hope National Medical Center in Durate, California Joy Goldsmith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee Thomas Smith is the Director of Palliative Medicine and Professor of Oncology in the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland Sandra L. Ragan is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma Myra Glajchen is the Director of Medical Education at the MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care and an Assistant Professor of Family and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, New York George Handzo is the Director of Health Services, Research, and Quality at Healthcare Chaplaincy in New York, New York.