Robert M. Arnold, MD, FACP, FAAHPM is Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. He was the Past-President of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities as well as the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). He has mentored both investigators and educators and helped start VitalTalk, a non-profit organization whose aim is to ensure that every seriously ill patient has clinicians who can talk about what matters most.