Scott D. Halpern, M.D., Ph.D. is the John M. Eisenberg, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. 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 published more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts, most of which were first-authored by one of his 36 primary mentees, and earned more than $100 million in research funding as PI. Dr. Halpern has received dozens of awards for scholarship in bioethics and health services research and is most proud of his awards and accomplishments in mentoring, including having been the primary mentor for 12 NIH K awardees. He is an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Hastings Center, and most recently the National Academy of Medicine.