Keri O. Brenner, MD, MPA, is a dual-boarded psychiatrist and palliative care physician with expertise in the psychological, psychodynamic, and existential dimensions of serious illness. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she provides inpatient palliative care consultations and leads academic initiatives focused on psychosocial education and scholarship. Dr. Brenner earned her medical degree from Yale School of Medicine—where she received thesis honors for her work on the phenomenology of suffering in terminal illness—and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. She completed psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital, followed by fellowships in clinical ethics, hospice and palliative medicine, and psychoanalysis. Inspired by formative experiences volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying in Kolkata, she now lectures nationally and publishes widely on the integration of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic principles into serious illness care. Dr. Brenner has held leadership roles on the University of Notre Dame Board of Trustees and within national professional organizations in hospice and palliative medicine.
Danielle Chammas, MD is an Associate Clinical Professors within the UCSF Department of Medicine’s Division of Palliative Medicine and the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She works clinically in the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Symptom Management Clinic, and she serves as the Co-Director of Patient and Caregiver Education for the MERI Center for Palliative Care Education at UCSF. She completed her medical school, General Adult Psychiatry residency, chief resident year, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship all at UCSF. In addition to providing clinical care, her professional and scholarly interests include the intersection of psychiatry and palliative care, the psychological dimensions of life-limiting illness, therapeutic communication, medical education, clinician wellness, and medical humanities.
Dr. Irina Mindlis is an Instructor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health of Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, within the Parker Health Group Division of Geriatrics.. She completed her PhD in Psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed her clinical internship (residency) at Mount Sinai Services/Elmhurst Hospital, and her postdoctoral fellowship in the T32 training program in Behavioral Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dr. Mindlis' research focuses broadly on improving psychosocial outcomes in older adults with multimorbidity and serious illness through mechanistic and intervention research for ambulatory and community settings. She is especially interested in improving mental health outcomes in older adults with multimorbidity, as well as in the development of digital health interventions to improve mental health management in ambulatory medical settings.
Leah Rosenberg, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and attending physician in the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine who received her medical degree with Distinction in Research from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center and completed fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through the Harvard Palliative Medicine Fellowship. She joined both the Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine as well as the Hospital Medicine Group in September 2014. Her interests include the integration of palliative care into general internal medicine practice and psychological issues in seriously ill patients. Dr. Rosenberg has completed fellowships in hospice and palliative medicine, quality improvement in clinical medicine, medical education, as well as psychoanalysis.