Kathleen Foley

There's a couple of names that always come out in palliative medicine.

Diane Meyer often is quoted as the grandmother of palliative care, along with Kathleen Foley, who did a lot of great work at Memorial.

But what really stood out to me, being a mentee of Tom and observing the long course of his career, was just calling out all the different elements of suffering that patients have when they're diagnosed with cancer.

And I really love how you framed it, that it is really an event that changes the course and arc of someone's life.

the history of this, yeah, it goes back.

Kathy Foley was very involved in the early days, uh, with getting a definition, a WHO definition of palliative care back in the '90s, was kind of one of the first steps where we began to kind of be, show up on the radar screen.

Excuse me.

Then we were able to get palliative care into a number of World Health Assembly resolutions.