Anthony Back MD is a medical oncologist and palliative medicine physician. He practices at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (www.seattlecca.org) and does research at the University of Washington (www.uw.edu) and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (www.fhcrc.org). His professional work is about cultivating healers in high-tech medicine, and many resources from his work are collected on www.oncotalk.info, including a set of videos that illustrate skills described in his book Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients. In 2010, he was awarded the Pathfinder in Palliative Care by the American Cancer Society.
