Mary V. Callaway. M.E.
Associate Director
Project on Death in America
Open Society Institute
400 West 59th Street
New York, New York 10019
Tel: 212 548-0150, Fax: 212 548-4613
Email: mcallaway@sorosny.org Website: www.soros.org/death
Mary
Callaway has served as the Associate Director for the Project on
Death in America of the Open Society Institute since its beginning in
1994. In addition to managing the program activities of PDIA, she
has worked closely with the OSI Public Health Program to develop the
Palliative Care Initiative in Eastern Europe. Prior to joining OSI,
Ms. Callaway was the Administrator for the Pain and Palliative Care
Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City
for 16 years while also serving as the Executive Director for the
World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Cancer
Pain Research and Education. Ms. Callaway received her undergraduate
and graduate degrees in education at Southern Illinois University. She
is on the Board of Directors of the United States Cancer Pain
Relief Committee, and an active member in the National Hospice and
Palliative Care Organization, the American Pain Society, Children’s
Hospice International, and the International Association for the
Study of Pain. She was instrumental in the development and
dissemination of the WHO monograph “Cancer Pain and Palliative
Care in Children”. She lectures nationally and internationally
and is an active advocate for public and professional education in
pain and palliative care focussing on the need to improve end of life
care for patients and families.