Assistant Medical Directors

Dr. Eric Hardt is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine.  He is the Medical Director of the Home Care Program of the Geriatrics Section at Boston Medical Center.  He obtained his B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and M.D. from Tufts Medical School (Boston, MA) in 1974.  Prior to coming to Boston in 1984, Dr.

Stewart B. Fleishman, MD is the Director of Cancer Supportive Services at the Continuum Cancer Centers of New York: Beth Israel and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, and the Associate Chief Medical Officer of Continuum Hospice Care-Jacob Perlow Hospice. He currently is the Vice Chair of the Quality of Life Sub-Committee of the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, and has been an active investigator in cancer symptom control throughout his career. Dr.

Dr. Dana Weintraub is a Clinical Instructor in the Division of General Pediatrics at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.  Dr. Weintraub received an A.B. in History from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and her M.D. from University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA.  She completed her Internship, Residency and Chief Residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland.  Subsequently, Dr. Weintraub completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship in General Pediatrics at Stanford University.

Dr. Edward Paul is currently the Director of the Family & Community Medicine Residency Program at The University of Arizona in Tucson.  Now, in his twenty fifth year of practice in the specialty of Family Medicine, he continues to consider it a privilege to be able to teach and to take care of people each day in the office and in the hospital setting.  He has been in residency education for most of his career, having taught residents and medical students in both rural and urban settings.  Dr.

Diane Pappas is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia Children’s Hospital, where she is the Director of Child Advocacy responsible for the advocacy training of pediatric residents.  She has an active general pediatric practice serving a rural population. She is also a licensed attorney.

Dr. Ellen Cohen is the Vice Chairman of Education in the Department of Medicine and Residency Program Director in Internal Medicine at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.   Dr. Cohen is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Medical Director of the Health Advocacy Project.