Palliative Care KOLs
About this list
432 key opinion leaders work in Palliative Care. All 432 are basic profiles built from NPPES, OpenAlex and ClinicalTrials.gov.
Harvard University, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Mayo Clinic have the largest Palliative Care groups. They are spread across 127 institutions; the five largest account for 12%.
52 have reported industry payments.
15 carry the Emerging badge for the trajectory of recent publications. The most cited are Russell Portenoy, Kenton Sanders and James Tulsky. Every count comes from public federal and open sources and was last published on November 8, 2026.
- 432
- Key opinion leaders
- 52
- Reported industry payments
- 15
- Emerging
- November 8, 2026
- Data as of
How these numbers are counted: sources and methodology.
By the numbers
- $848,003
- Industry payments reported, program year 2025Source: CMS Open Payments
Where the work is
The institutions with the most profiles on this list. Each links to its own page.
How this list is built
Who is listed: every profile whose published research or registered trial activity places them in Palliative Care, read from OpenAlex topics, PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov. This KOL finder lists the area as a whole, sub-areas included.
How the grid is ordered: enriched profiles first, then by citations on OpenAlex. The directory lists the same people with every filter and sort it offers, including recent and rising activity, and exports the result.
What is never here: scraped contact details, prescription claims data, or a judgment of anyone's influence. Every count on this page is read from a public registry and republished with its source and the date it was last published.
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The 24 most cited
Russell Portenoy, MD
- 505
- publications
- 100
- h-index
Kenton Sanders, MD
University of Nevada
- 539
- publications
- 93
- h-index
James Tulsky, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
- 530
- publications
- 83
- h-index
Stewart Fleishman, MD
- 71
- publications
- 27
- h-index
Vicki Jackson, MD
Boston University
- 305
- publications
- 59
- h-index
Mellar Davis, MD
- 577
- publications
- 62
- h-index
William Dale, MD, PhD
City Of Hope National Medical Center
- 417
- publications
- 66
- h-index
- 2
- companies
Christine Ritchie, MD
Harvard University
- 602
- publications
- 60
- h-index
Jean Kutner, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz
- 307
- publications
- 57
- h-index
Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS
Dartmouth College
- 304
- publications
- 51
- h-index
Juliet Jacobsen, MD, DPHI
Harvard University
- 124
- publications
- 27
- h-index
Craig Blinderman, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 127
- publications
- 26
- h-index
Sonal Admane, MD, MPH
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- 36
- publications
- 10
- h-index
Frederic Jackson, DO, MPH
LabCorp
- 9
- publications
- 7
- h-index
Steven Pantilat, MD
University of California, San Francisco
- 251
- publications
- 43
- h-index
Alvin Moss, M, D
West Virginia University
- 218
- publications
- 44
- h-index
Michael Rabow, MD
University of California, San Francisco
- 230
- publications
- 42
- h-index
Richard Maunder, MD
St. Charles Medical Center
- 48
- publications
- 28
- h-index
Amanda Lund, DO
- 129
- publications
- 35
- h-index
Janet Bull, MD
- 121
- publications
- 31
- h-index
Michael Wiley, MD
- 117
- publications
- 42
- h-index
Charlotta Lindvall, MD, PhD
Broad Institute
- 204
- publications
- 37
- h-index
- 1
- company
Ira Byock, MD
Dartmouth College
- 172
- publications
- 35
- h-index
Eric Roeland, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
- 280
- publications
- 35
- h-index
- 6
- companies
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