Dr. Kristin Collier is an associate professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she serves as the director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality, and Religion and as an associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. She completed medical school, residency, and chief residency at the University of Michigan. Her academic interests center on human dignity and the ways this concept grounds moral obligations at the margins of life. Her peer-reviewed work has been published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the British Medical Journal, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Journal of General Internal Medicine. She has had writings published in Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, Theopolis, America Magazine, Public Discourse, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She is also a wife and the proud mother of four sons.

E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, is an internist, pulmonologist, and critical care physician. Dr. Ely earned his MD at Tulane University School of Medicine, in conjunction with a Master’s in Public Health. He serves as the Grant W. Liddle endowed chair in medicine and is a physician-scientist and tenured Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is also the Associate Director of aging research for the Tennessee Valley Veteran’s Affairs Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC) in Nashville, TN. He is the founder and co-director of the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center, and a pioneer in the investigation of delirium and long-term cognitive outcomes, including dementia, in survivors of critical illness, with continuous NIH and VA funding for 25 years and over 600 peer-reviewed publications. He designed and was a lead investigator for the study of JAK/STAT inhibitors in acute COVID-19, which successfully proved a survival advantage for this class of medications, leading to FDA approval and the strong WHO recommendation for these medications for hospitalized patients receiving oxygen. He is the principal investigator for an NIA/NIH-funded phase III investigation of immunomodulation for patients suffering from Long COVID. His CIBS research center hosts free daily support groups to provide community and help in recovery for patients with Long COVID and their families. Dr. Ely is the author of a work of narrative non-fiction entitled Every Deep-Drawn Breath, from which he’s donating 100% net proceeds to help COVID survivors and family members rebuild their lives.

Abraham Nussbaum, MD, MTS, is a physician and writer in Denver, Colorado. He is a professor of psychiatry and assistant dean of graduate medical education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he directs the Mind and Behavior course for all first-year medical students. He works clinically at Denver Health, an academic safety-net system, on its adult inpatient psychiatry units, where he cares for adults experiencing mental health crises. Administratively, he is Denver Health’s Chief Education Officer, providing strategic vision, daily direction, and administrative oversight for Denver Health's clinical education programs, which educate over 2,000 students and 1,000 resident physicians annually. He has written several psychiatric textbooks, an academic memoir, and his most recent book, Progress Notes: One Year In The Future of Medicine, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2024. He is currently working on a study of gift exchanges in medicine.

Nancy E. Oriol, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Faculty Associate Dean for Community Engagement at Harvard Medical School. A Harvard Medical School graduate and former Dean for Students, Dr. Oriol co-founded The Family Van, a mobile health clinic that has inspired national replication and supports a research collaborative on mobile healthcare. She is also co-founder of HMS MEDscience, a STEM education program reaching over 4,000 students annually. Dr. Oriol’s innovations in both community health and medical education have earned her numerous honors, including the AMA’s Pride in the Profession Award and HMS’s Lifetime Achievement in Community Service Award.

Siv Sjursen cares for acutely ill infants in the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Siv previously worked as a pediatric nurse at La Rabida Children's Hospital, which provides comprehensive treatment for medically complex, chronically ill, often technology-dependent patients. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from West Suburban College of Nursing and her Master of Science in Health Sciences from Touro University. Siv completed fellowships in clinical medical ethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in 2012, where she now serves as faculty, and in pediatric palliative care through the Coleman Foundation Palliative Medicine Training Program. Siv finds great fulfillment in caring for patients and their families, as well as mentoring students. Her professional interests include the impact of technology on nursing care, the limits of viability, and the dynamics of nurse-doctor relationships. She lives and works on Chicago’s South Side and enjoys discovering beauty in everyday life.

Daniel P. Sulmasy, MD, PhD, is the André Hellegers Professor of Biomedical Ethics in the Departments of Medicine and Philosophy and serves as Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and as a faculty member of the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University. He received his AB and MD degrees from Cornell, trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, and holds a PhD in philosophy from Georgetown. He has served on numerous governmental advisory committees, including the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, 2010-17. A practicing internist and a philosopher, he is Editor of the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, and has written extensively on many topics in bioethics, especially regarding care at the end of life. His seven books include Methods in Medical Ethics, The Rebirth of the Clinic, and Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Before, During, and After the Holocaust.