Hillary Lum, MD, PhD conducts patient-centered outcomes research to improve care for older adults with serious illness, including persons living with dementia and their family care partners. She is a geriatrician and palliative care physician. Her research focused on developing and implementing effective models of care into primary care. As an NIA Beeson Scholar, she developed a novel Advance Care Planning Group Visit. The Group Visit intervention engages older adults in advance care planning conversations and communicating their preferences with their healthcare system. In 2021, she was one of the first NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Health Care System Scholars. She was a 2015-2016 Health and Aging Policy Fellow, is a Co-Director of the CCTSI Clinical Faculty Scholars Program, and serves in editorial roles with the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and the Journal of Palliative Medicine.