One of America’s Most Prolific Authors on Hospice and Palliative Care

Dr. Robert W. Buckingham
Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the University of Michigan.

Author of 12 books, 7 dedicated to hospice care, translated into 7 languages, with over 100,000 copies sold worldwide.

A pioneer of the U.S. hospice movement since 1974, beginning with the development of Hospice of New Haven—the first hospice program in the United States—and later helping establish 81 hospice programs worldwide, including the first for children with AIDS in Thailand.