Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN, FAANP, FPCN, FAAN

Billy Rosa, PhD, MBE, APRN, FAANP, FPCN, FAAN, is an Assistant Attending Behavioral Scientist at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). He received his PhD and Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rosa completed MSK’s Hospice & Palliative Medicine Interdisciplinary Clinical Fellowship and served as Chief Fellow of MSK’s NIH/NCI T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Psychosocial, Palliative, and Community Research in Cancer. Dr. Rosa’s research teams have secured $12+ million USD in federal and philanthropic funding to advance palliative care science. He is the editor of five books, has contributed more than 350 academic publications in journals and. He was Associate Editor for the third edition of the Global Atlas of Palliative Care (in press) and served on the advisory board for the 2024 WISH and WHO report, Palliative Care: How Can We Respond to 10 Years of Limited Progress? He is currently Co-Chair of The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Commission on Palliative Care Integration in Serious Respiratory Illness and has served on The Lancet Oncology Commission on the Human Crisis in Cancer (Commissioner), The Lancet Commission on Breast Cancer (Writing Committee), and The Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems (Collaborator). Dr. Rosa is currently Co-Chair of the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care clinical practice guideline update and has served on the expert panels for the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s 2024 palliative care guideline update and the global resource-stratified palliative care practice guideline (in press). Dr. Rosa is a 2026 Presidential Leadership Scholar, Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Harold Amos Scholar and holds honorary fellowships in the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Hospice & Palliative Nursing Association, and the New York Academy of Medicine. In 2024, Dr. Rosa was named a Visionary in Hospice & Palliative Care by the American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine and has been recognized with numerous distinctions, including the International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care’s (IAHPC’s) Individual Recognition Award (high-income country category) and the International Council of Nurses’ Kim Mo-Im Policy Innovation and Impact Award. He serves on the Board of Directors for both the AAN and IAHPC, is Editor Emeritus of Psycho-Oncology, and is currently Associate Editor for Nursing for the Journal of Pain & Symptom Management.