Michael W. Rabow, MD, FAAHPM,the Helen Diller Family Chair in Palliative Care, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and Urology at UCSF.  He is the Associate Chief of Education & Mentoring in the Division of Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine, and the Medical Director of Palliative Care at UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (https://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles/rabow_michael.3627). Board-certified in internal medicine and hospice & palliative care, Dr. Rabow directs a leading outpatient palliative care program-- the Symptom Management Service.  In addition, Dr. Rabow is a member of UCSF’s Academy of Medical Educators and is the Founding Director of the MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care at UCSF/Mount Zion (https://meri.ucsf.edu). Dr. Rabow was the winner of the 2017 AAHPM PDIA National Palliative Care Leadership Award. He is a past recipient of the Soros Project on Death in America award and the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award.