Dawn is a national thought leader in Hospice & Palliative Medicine who pioneers revolutionary palliative medicine as the art of patient care, scientific curiosity and storytelling. Mother of three and gratefully married to her medical school classmate, Dr. Dawn is the medical director of ANX Hospice and part of the UCSF Palliative Care Service. She earned her MD and PhD in immunology from Tufts University and completed her fellowship training in hematology with an emphasis in bone marrow transplant at Stanford University. She transitioned to the field of hospice and palliative medicine after her father died in 2006. Dr. Dawn considers grief an injury and has developed a novel approach to its healing in what she refers to as the ICU “ISEEYOU for the Soul.” She is the creator and host of the radio program, Dying to Talk. Her writing has been published widely including in The New York Times, JAMA, Science and Annals of Internal Medicine. She is an internationally invited speaker most recently sharing true stories from the bedside about what matters most in her 2024 TEDx talk “Ask. The Time is Now” and her new book, Heart Sounds: How a Stethoscope, A Magic Wand, and a Fishing Pole Teach Us to Listen for What Matters Most. Learn more at: drasyouwish.com. At Affinity Health, Dawn serves as our collaborating physician and mentor.  She is not accepting patients at this time.