Lisa Harris, M.D.
Primary Care Physician
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Lisa Harris, MD, was born in Oneida, New York, the eldest child and only daughter of the honorable Judge Roy and Mrs. Lucille King.  Dr. Harris attended Monroe Jr. Sr. High School and then furthered her education at the University of Rochester, where she received a B.S. in neurosciences.  Later, she attended Morehouse School of Medicine where she received her medical degree. Her training was completed at the Detroit Medical Center in Detroit, MI.  Dr. Harris is boarded in two specialties, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, allowing her to care for both adult and pediatric populations. Currently, Dr. Harris is in private practice.

Glenn McGee, Ph.D.
Director, Alden March Bioethics Institute
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY

Dr. Glenn McGee is the director of the Alden March Bioethics Institute, a comprehensive ethics research and education organization of the Albany Medical College of Union University, founded in 2005 with programs in Albany Law School, College of Pharmacy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, GE Global Research, Albany Nanotech, Rockefeller Institute and a dozen other institutions of higher learning, research and government in the New York capital district.
He holds the John A. Balint Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics, and is a tenured Professor of medicine and is Professor of Law, Public Health and of Philosophy at both SUNY and Union. He has served as Chief of the Office of Bioethics for the New York State Health Department Wadsworth Center, and in 2007 was elected to the board of directors of the American Society for Bioethics & the Humanities.
Professor McGee is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Bioethics.  He is senior editor for bioethics for The MIT Press and serves on the editorial boards of 18 scholarly journals, and on the ethics committees of the Council of Science Editors, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and the World Association of Medical Editors.

Professor McGee has authored more than 150 articles in medical, legal, business and scientific journals. In 2007 an anthology of his work entitled Imagination, Experiments, Courage and Values will be published by Cambridge University Press.

Dr. McGee received BA and PhD degrees at Baylor and Vanderbilt respectively, then completed an NIH post-doctoral fellowship in ethics and genetics. In 2000, he was awarded the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy, the largest award given by the United Kingdom to American researchers. He is currently Director of a $400,000 project funded by the Charitable Leadership Foundation to study the effect of ethics consultation on length-of-stay in the Intensive Care Unit.  In April 2006 he was given the Appignani Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Bioethics at the United Nations. 

Timothy E. Quill, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Timothy E. Quill, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also the Director of the Center for Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics, Director of the Program for Biopsychosocial Studies, and a palliative care consultant in Rochester, New York.

Dr. Quill has published and lectured widely about various aspects of the doctor-patient relationship, with special focus on end-of-life decision-making, including delivering bad news, non-abandonment, discussing palliative care earlier, and exploring last-resort options. He is the author of several books on end-of life, including Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together (Oxford University Press, 2001), and A Midwife Through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choices at the End of Life (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), and numerous articles published in major medical journals including "Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making" published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Quill was the lead physician plaintiff in the New York State legal case challenging the law prohibiting physician-assisted death that was heard in 1997 by the U.S. Supreme Court (Quill v. Vacco).

Dr. Quill received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College (1971), and his M.D. from the University of Rochester (1976). He completed his Internal Medicine residency in 1979 and a Fellowship in Medicine/Psychiatry Liaison in 1981, both from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Quill is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians, an ABHPM certified Palliative Care consultant, and a founding member of the American Academy on Physician and Patient.

Jennifer J. Griggs, M.D., MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
University of Michigan

Dr. Griggs is a breast oncologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Griggs has authored nearly 50 articles and book chapters and is a reviewer for general medicine and subspecialty journals. Dr. Griggs serves on two study sections for the National Cancer Institute, is on the Professional Advisory Board for breastcancer.org, and has been honored with numerous teaching and community service awards. In 2004, she was the recipient of the University of Rochester Humanism in Medicine Award sponsored by the American Association of Medical Colleges.

Dr. Griggs' research program, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, focuses on improving the quality of breast cancer care and on care of breast cancer survivors.

Gail L. Rosseau, M.D.
Director of Cranial Base Surgery, Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Rush Medical College
Chicago, IL

Dr. Gail L. Rosseau is director of Cranial Base Surgery at CINN and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Rush Medical College, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

A board-certified neurosurgeon with more than 10 years of experience, Dr. Rosseau has extensive experience treating the full spectrum of neurological conditions. She has a special interest and expertise in caring for patients with pituitary tumors, meningiomas, acoustic neuromas, head and neck malignancies, and other cranial base disorders. Committed to reducing the pain and speeding the recovery time of her patients, Dr. Rosseau has introduced the use of endoscopic surgical techniques to treat pituitary tumors and other cranial base disorders.

Dr. Rosseau began her medical education in 1981 at George Washington University Medical School in Washington, D.C. She remained at George Washington, completing her general surgery internship and neurosurgery residency at the University Medical Center under the chairmanship of Professor Edward Laws, Jr. M.D. During her residency, Dr. Rosseau served as a cranial base surgery fellow at H.I.A. du Val-de-Grace Hospital in Paris, France. Following her residency in 1991, Dr. Rosseau continued to enhance her subspecialty expertise with a yearlong fellowship in cranial base surgery and microvascular surgery at the University of Pittsburgh's Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pennsylvania. Dr. Rosseau joined CINN after completing her fellowship in 1992.
A respected author and lecturer both in the U.S. and abroad, Dr. Rosseau has published numerous articles and book chapters on a broad range of topics. She speaks and writes most frequently about innovative surgical approaches to the treatment of cranial base tumors.

Dr. Rosseau is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Harry B. Zehner, Jr. Memorial Traveling Fellowship Award of the American College of Surgeons and more recently, the Chicago Woman of the Year Mentor Award. She is an active member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, where she has served in a variety of leadership positions. With her husband Rick, an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Rosseau has two children: Natalie and Brendan.

Nancy Scannell
Patient
Breast Cancer Survivor

Nancy Scannel is a devoted, loving (and loved!) wife, mother, and grandmother. She loves to cook, and she is a proponent of peaceful resolutions to conflicts, both here and abroad. She is also a breast cancer survivor and wishes to pass along a message to all those currently facing cancer and those that might in the future:

"When you first get this diagnosis, you are like a deer in headlights, and even more so when you are diagnosed a second time. Due to time and cost constraints, time spent with your doctors may be limited.  It is so important not to let this happen. Find support and resources that will help you to reach out to your doctors. Doctors spend a lot of time talking to each other; they should be talking more with their patients. Building a strong and supportive relationship with your physician is the key to successfully living with your diagnosis"