Dr. Halpern is the John M. Eisenberg, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and a practicing critical care and palliative care physician. He is the founding Director of the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center, which seeks to improve the lives of all people affected by serious illness and remove the barriers to health equity that seriously ill patients commonly face. Within PAIR, he also directs the American Heart Association-funded BETTER Center (Behavioral Economics to Transform Trial Enrollment Representativeness) which tests ways to improve the diversity of enrollment in clinical trials, and Penn PORTAL (Patient-Oriented Research and Training to Accelerate Learning), 1 of 16 U.S. Centers of Excellence in learning health system science and training. He has received dozens of awards for scholarship in bioethics and health services research and for outstanding mentorship, including his service as primary mentor for more than a dozen NIH K awardees. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Hastings Center, and the National Academy of Medicine.