Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D. is the John M. Eisenberg Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and a practicing critical care doctor. He is the founding Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, which generates evidence to advance policies and practices with the goals of improving the lives of all people affected by serious illness and removing the barriers to health equity that commonly face seriously ill patients. He is also Director of the NIA-funded Penn Roybal P30 Center on Palliative Care in Dementia. His research awards include AcademyHealth’s Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award, the Young Leader Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Federation for Medical Research’s Outstanding Investigator Award for the best scientist in any field under the age of 45, and the Association of Clinical and Translational Science’s Distinguished Investigator Award. His mentoring awards include the John Hansen-Flaschen Award for Outstanding Mentorship and the Arthur K. Asbury Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, an elected Fellow of The Hastings Center, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Internal Medicine and the American Journal of Bioethics.