The John Hartford Foundation supported the inaugural summit of leaders from geriatrics and palliative medicine in July to encourage opportunities, challenges, and next steps for the field. I interviewed Seth Landefeld , chief of Geriatrics at UCSF and San Francisco VAMC, about his experience. Seth Landefeld , Sean Morrison , and Bob Arnold previewed and approved of this post. On the impetus for the meeting: "The genesis for the meeting occurred 2-3 years ago when we realized that geriatrics and palliative medicine were competing for the same pool of internal medicine residents for fellowship training and that our training should be collaborative, not competitive. In subsequent discussions, we realized that the common ground between the two fields is so much greater than the issue of collaboration in fellowship training. I and several other board members of the American Geriatric Society , including Wayne McCormick , Greg Sachs , and Linda Fried , took this issue to the