Member; Professor of Medicine
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Weill Cornell College of Medicine
Judith E. Nelson, MD, JD, is Attending Physician on the Supportive Care and Critical Care Services at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), where she is Member, Memorial Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. She is an experienced clinician, investigator, innovator, educator, mentor, and physician leader. Dr. Nelson’s academic program focuses on systematic, early integration of palliative care with oncologic care and intensive care. She been principal investigator of multiple career development and research awards from NIH, including an ongoing study of nurse-led discussions of health-related values with Latinx and other individuals facing cancer. Dr. Nelson has also led the Supportive Care Service at MSK and multiple national initiatives to enhance both specialist and “primary” (non-specialist) palliative care, such as the IPAL-ICU (Improving Palliative Care in the ICU) Project sponsored by NIH and the Center to Advance Palliative Care, and the Supportive Care Committee of the Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers. She led the Palliative Care Domain of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s Palliative and End of Life Care Guidelines Project (2023-24). She is also Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FAME Project (Improving Family Members’ Experience in the Intensive Care Unit), a multi-year, multi-million dollar research study sponsored by the French National Research Agency (ANR) to identify, prevent and mitigate PTSD in ICU families.
RPD319 - Portal-enabled elicitation of patients’ health-related values in solid tumor oncology
Thursday, March 5, 2026
2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose