Lynn Hallarman, MD, MM

Dr. Hallarman is an internal medicine and palliative care physician with three decades of experience caring for individuals living with serious chronic illnesses and their families. She graduated from Yale Medical School and completed her residency training in internal medicine at the University of Rochester. From 2007 to 2019, she served as the founder and program director of palliative care services at Stony Brook University Medical Center. In 2017-18, Dr. Hallarman served as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow. During her fellowship, she worked as a health investigator for the Senate Committee on Finance, where she contributed to a congressional report on the tragic deaths of nursing home residents following Hurricanes Irma and Harvey. Since 2018, she has worked as a palliative care policy and educational consultant for the National Center for Equitable Care for Elders at Harvard University. She is also works as a health science journalist, with her work appearing in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, JAMA, Aeon, and more. For more about her journalism work, visit: lynnhallarman.com.