Rosemary Gibson is Senior Advisor at the Hastings Center. She was a senior program officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for 16 years until 2009.

While at the Foundation, Ms. Gibson led national quality improvement and patient safety initiatives working in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. She funded the first rapid response systems in two hundred hospitals, among other safety innovations.

At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, she was chief architect of its twelve-year $250 million national strategy to establish palliative care in the nation’s hospitals. Today, more than 1800 hospitals have a palliative care program, an increase from about 10 in the 1990s. Ms. Gibson worked with Bill Moyers on the PBS documentary, "On Our Own Terms." She is recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.