Clinical Hotline

We encourage all care providers to contact the Academy with your aid in dying clinically-related questions. No question is too small, or too tall.

Patients and Family Members: DO NOT USE THIS HOTLINE. For all referral requests and information, please use our Intake Form. We will not provide patient referrals or information on the Clinicians Hotline.

For urgent questions requiring an
immediate or 1-2 hour response:
Phone: 510 298 1135

For questions that require
same day or next replies:
CliniciansHotline@AADM.org

PATIENTS OR FAMILIES: DO NOT USE THIS HOTLINE

PATIENTS AND LOVED ONES: DO NOT CALL THIS CLINICIANS HOTLINE

Patients and loved ones MUST contact us at AADM@AADM.org and/or use the Academy’s Patient-to-Doctor Referral System (click the yellow button below). If you are not a clinician and you contact the Clinicians Hotline, we will redirect you — we cannot answer your phone questions or provide referrals on this hotline. Use the button below to request a referral.

Obtain a Referral

Hotline Clinicians

Lonny Shavelson, MD

Chair of the Board. Director of Education. Editor, Journal of Aid-in-Dying Medicine.

Diana Barnard, MD

Hunter Marshall, FNMP

Jessica Kaan, DO, MPH

Associate Director of Clinical Investigations. Liaison with End of Life Washington

Lisa Stolarczyk, MD

Member, Board of Directors

Carl DeMars, MD

Robin Plumer, DO

Thalia DeWolf, RN, CHPN

Nursing Education and Hospice Outreach Coordinator

For Hotline Clinicians Only, file interaction reports

Teaching and supporting best practices for the care of patients considering or completing medical aid in dying.

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