Dr. Susan Miller is an Associate Professor of Community Health at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  She is a gerontologist and epidemiologist whose research focuses on nursing home end-of-life care, hospice care, and long-term care utilization and quality. Dr. Miller’s recent research includes an applied policy study funded by the JEHT Foundation and aimed at understanding how state policies and practices influence access to and quality of palliative care/hospice for persons receiving long-term care services, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded study to identify and disseminate nursing home/hospice “collaborative solutions.” Her ongoing research includes studies funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Alzheimer’s Association that aim to understand how use of hospice care in nursing homes has changed over time, how key federal state policy may be associated with this use, how changes in state policies and practices may be associated with changes in use, and how hospice use is associated with resident and nursing home quality of care indicators.  Another ongoing study, funded by the Retirement Research Foundation, is examining how state policies may be associated with the implementation of culture change in U.S. nursing homes and how the implementation of culture change practices is associated with quality outcomes.