New BCTR project on translational research on palliative care

May 11, 2012

A $200,000 gift from the Lawrence and Rebecca Stern Family Foundation to College of Human Ecology researchers will support a new BCTR project on translational research on palliative care. The project, which began March 1, 2012,  consists of research and policy analysis on optimal and cost-effective palliative care models, led by gerontologist Karl Pillemer, the Hazel E. Reed Professor in the Department of Human Development, and M. Cary Reid and Ronald Adelman of the Weill Cornell Medical College Division of Geriatrics.