Julie Brown, MD, is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). She is a former fellow in the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program in the Department of Medicine at VUMC and completed her residency in emergency medicine at Vanderbilt. She hopes to explore opportunities to optimize care for end-of-life and patients receiving palliative care, particularly through the lens of urgent and emergency medicine.