Salzburg Seminar: Palliative Care for Patients with TB or HIV/TB

Course Director

Dr. Eric L. Krakauer is Director of International Programs of the Center for Palliative Care at Harvard Medical School in Boston where he also teaches medicine, palliative care, and global health, and practices internal medicine and palliative care at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has extensive experience training physicians in Vietnam in HIV/AIDS treatment and palliative care including treatment of patients co-infected with HIV and TB. He is now assisting Vietnam’s Ministry of Health to integrate palliative care into its health care system. He serves as consultant to the International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Public Health Program.

Course Director

Dr. Kathleen M. Foley is the medical director of the International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Public Health Program. Foley has focused her career on the assessment and treatment of patients with cancer pain. With her colleagues, she has developed scientific guidelines for the use of analgesic drug therapy through clinic pharmacologic studies of opioid drugs.

She is an attending neurologist in the Pain & Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and is also professor of neurology, neuroscience, and clinical pharmacology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and previous director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Cancer Pain Research and Education at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Foley holds the chair of the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Pain Research. She was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences for her national and international efforts in the treatment of patients with cancer pain. She is the past director of the Project on Death in America, which worked to transform the culture of dying in the United States through initiatives in research, scholarship, and clinical care.

Foley received the Distinguished Service Award and the Humanitarian Award from the American Cancer Society, the David Karnovsky Award from American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the Frank Netter Award from the American Academy of Neurology. She is a previous Rita Allen Scholar. Foley chaired three expert committees that resulted in the publication of the three WHO monographs on Cancer Pain and Palliative Care: “Cancer Pain Relief” (1996), “Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care” (1990), and “Cancer Pain and Palliative Care in Children” (1996).

Mary Callaway is the Project Director for the International Palliative Care Initiative at the Open Society Foundations. From 1994 to 2003, she served as the Associate Director of the Foundations' Project on Death in America, a 45-million dollar initiative to improve end-of-life care in the United States.

Prior to joining the Foundations, Callaway was the Administrator for the Pain and Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for 16 years. In that position she served the Executive Director for the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Cancer Pain Research and Education.

Callaway is a founding member of the United States Cancer Pain Relief Committee. She is a member of the Steering Groups for both the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance and the International Children’s Palliative Care Network. Callaway is also a member of the African Palliative Care Association pain management working group.