Judith E. Nelson MD, JD

Dr. Nelson received her JD from Harvard Law School and MD from New York University School of Medicine. She completed residency and fellowship at Mount Sinai in New York and is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Palliative Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine. At Mount Sinai, she was Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, Director of the Respiratory Care Unit, and a faculty member of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute.

Dr. Nelson’s research interests relate to the integration of palliative care with intensive care and oncologic care. She received a Faculty Scholar Award from the Soros Foundation’s Project on Death in America, the Roger Bone Award for Advances in End-of-Life Care from the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Grenvik Family Award for Ethics from the Society of Critical Care Medicine.