Amber E. Barnato, MD, MPH, MS is the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professor and Chair of Health Policy & Clinical Practice and the Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. Dr. Barnato is a physician-scientist trained in public health and preventive medicine, health policy research, and hospice and palliative medicine. A practicing palliative care physician, Dr. Barnato’s research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of variation in end-of-life intensive care unit (ICU) and life-sustaining treatment use among seriously ill older adults. She uses an array of scientific methods, including claims data analysis, participant observation and interviewing, high-fidelity simulation experiments, and randomized behavioral trials. Her work increasingly focuses on the interplay between organizational norms, provider-patient communication, and implicit cognition, and how these phenomena produce racial disparities in end-of-life treatment. Dr. Barnato has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 2003, has been the Principal Investigator or Project Leader of more than 25 extramurally funded awards, authored more than 190 peer-reviewed publications, and mentored more than 70 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scientists. Her academic program development work focuses on early career development for clinician-scientists, including establishing and directing the Clinical Scientist Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh and founding the Dartmouth Health Equity Research Pathways Program at Dartmouth. As part of her public advocacy work, Dr. Barnato oversees the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care and collects and shares stories from diverse family members regarding their experiences making life-support decisions for patients in the ICU at the website http://www.ICUStoryWeb.org. Her newest curiosity is how psychedelic assisted therapy could change the paradigm of medical practice, both by offering novel pathways for treating mental health conditions and existential distress associated with life-threatening illness, and by ameliorating the trauma the health care delivery system on clinicians, thereby increasing their capacity for compassion, empathy, and trust in their patients’ capacity for self-healing.