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D. Joanne Harley Lynn, MD — internal medicine (geriatrics)

Courtesy D. Joanne Harley Lynn, MD, MA, MS

Dr. Joanne Harley Lynn (b. 1951) leads Altarum Institute’s Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness. Previously, she was director of The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies in Washington, D.C. She was also a senior scientist for RAND, a nonprofit institution that seeks to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis, and a clinical professor of medicine at The George Washington University, as well as president of Americans for Better Care of the Dying, a nonprofit public advocacy group that seeks to improve Medicare and Medicaid and other aspects of federal health policy.

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