Meier was founder and Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City from 1997 to 2011.
An expert on palliative medicine, Meier has appeared in media including, CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, PBS NewsHour, Boston Globe, NewsHour,[1] ABC World News Tonight, The Open Mind with Richard Heffner,[2] The New York Times,[3] the Los Angeles Times, USA Today,[4] the New York Daily News,[5] Newsday, The New Yorker and Newsweek.
In 2002, she was featured in the Bill Moyers series On Our Own Terms: Dying in America, a four-part PBS documentary.
In 1983, Meier joined the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as an instructor in the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development.
Since 2000, Meier has sat on the board of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice Care.