Juliet Jacobsen, MD, is a palliative care clinician educator and researcher interested in communication about serious illness and early palliative care interventions. She is a co-founder of the Supportive and Palliative Care Lab in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a palliative care clinician at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her book, What’s in the Syringe? Principles of Early Integrated Palliative Care (OUP, 2021) details a clinical approach to early palliative care. Her research uses per-patient illness trajectory analysis to optimize earlier palliative care integration.