United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
Hearings

The End of Life: Improving Care, Easing Pain and Helping Families

July 17, 2000

The purpose of this hearing is to highlight a number of professional and public education initiatives that are under way to inform Americans about appropriate end-of-life care.
Date: July 17, 2000
Time: 1:30 p.m.
628 Dirksen
Statements of Committee Members
Witness Testimony Panel 1:
  1. Shelly Twiford, Dakota City, Nebraska

  2. Peggy Gulotta, New Orleans, Louisiana

Witness Testimony Panel 2:
  1. Joanne Lynn, M.D., President, Americans for Better Care of the Dying; Director, RAND Center to Improve Care of the Dying; Arlington, Virginia

  2. James Tulsky, M.D., Associate Director, Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University; Director, Program on the Medical Encounter and Palliative Care, Durham Veterans Admnistration Medical Center; Durham, North Carolina

  3. Linda Todd, R.N., Director, Hospice of Siouxland; Regional Representative, Board of Directors, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; Sioux City, Iowa

  4. Richard Rosenquist, M.D., Member, Veterans Administration National Pain Management Strategy Committee; Director, Pain Medicine Division and Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

  5. Linda Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care project; Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University; Chicago, Illinois

Hearing Publications
  • Committee on Aging Print: 106-32