Russell K Portenoy Editor

Eduardo D. Bruera, MD, is Professor and Head of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, and the F. T. McGraw Chair in the Treatment of Cancer, at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Russell K. Portenoy, MD, is Chairman of the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care and holds the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman Chair in Pain and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York. He is also chief medical officer of Continuum Hospice Care's Jacob Perlow Hospice, as well as Professor of Neurology and Anesthesiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.