Carlos Graveran has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare and is a passionate hospice advocate. Since 2016, he has served as Executive Director of Frederick Health Hospice, a nonprofit hospice agency in Frederick, MD. Previously, he served as vice president of operations for VITAS Healthcare. Graveran co-chairs the Public Policy Committee for the…
Jill Harrington-LaMorie is an adjunct professor for The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Washington DC Campus, and also maintains an active clinical counseling practice. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, American Association of Suicidology, and the Association for Death Education & Counseling (ADEC) where she is also a former Board…
Adrienne Jones-Adamczyk is the Senior Clinical Ethics Specialty Program Director for Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. She completed a Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School in May of 2023 and brings over 14 years of experience as a board-certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse to…
Dorothy Wholihan is director of the Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Program and a clinical professor of nursing at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She is a palliative care nurse practitioner with over 40 years of nursing experience and maintains a current practice as a palliative care nurse practitioner at the James J. Peters…
Justin Yopp is a clinical psychologist and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill. Yopp is Director of Psycho-Oncology Services within the Comprehensive Cancer Support Program at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He co-leads both the Widowed Parent Program and the Parenting with Cancer Clinic at UNC. Yopp…
Jessica Zitter specializes in Critical Care and Palliative Care medicine and practices at a public hospital in Oakland, California. She is the founder of Reel Medicine Media, a non-profit focused on humanizing end-of-life care and author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Her work is featured in the Oscar…
Margaret Stroebe is Professor Emeritus at both the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Utrecht University, and the Department of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She has specialized in the field of bereavement research for many years. With Henk Schut she developed the Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement….
Kathie Supiano is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Nursing, and the past director of Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program at the University of Utah College of Nursing. She has been a practicing clinical social worker and psychotherapist for over 45 years. Her clinical practice has included care of older adults with depression…
Carrie Traher works as a counselor, educator, and researcher. She has authored articles on issues related to the experiences of adolescent girls, attachment and loss, bereaved university students, and has edited volumes regarding bereaved children and adolescents. Additional research interests include medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and the use of photo narrative and arts based…
Lauren Jodi (“LJ”) Van Scoy is a professor of Medicine, Humanities and Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine and is a physician scientist with training as a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician. She has an active, independent research program in the field of end-of-life communication and advance care planning. She has published…
William Villanova is the President of Frank E. Campbell – The Funeral Chapel in New York City, the Past-President of the New York State Funeral Directors Association and a multi-year recipient of the National Funeral Directors Association Pursuit of Excellence and Best of the Best Awards. Celebrating 125 years, Frank E. Campbell–The Funeral Chapel has…
Karla Washington researches interventions intended to promote the cultural, spiritual, and biopsychosocial wellbeing of patients, families and communities facing life-limiting, serious illnesses. Her research applies digital health solutions in the linked fields of palliative and hospice care. Washington’s current projects include an intervention to support and educate rural hospice family caregivers on controlling pain and…
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