Patricia Mayer is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Bioethics, completed a two-year Clinical Ethics Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, and founded the Clinical Ethics Service at Cleveland Clinic Florida. She served as medical director of the Hospice of Northern Colorado and holds…
Andy McNiel is the Senior Advisor of Youth Programs for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). He is an author and trainer on topics related to grief, bereavement, and end of life. McNiel is a co-founder and an executive partner with The Satori Group, a national education, management, and consulting company focused in the…
Paul Metzler has served more than 40 years as a clergy member, therapist, and grief counselor. He was the Director of Community and Program Services for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice and Palliative Care and the Director of The Center for Living with Loss, a bereavement education and counseling center of the Hospice…
Jennifer Moore Ballentine has more than 25 years’ experience in hospice and palliative care, healthcare ethics and public policy, adult education, and nonprofit leadership. She currently serves as CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, a statewide nonprofit focused on improving the experience of serious illness through system change. Prior positions include Executive…
M. Katherine Shear is the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry and the founding Director of the Center for Prolonged Grief at Columbia University School of Social Work. Shear is a clinical researcher who first worked in anxiety and depression. For the past 25 years, she has focused on understanding and treating people who experience…
Heather Stang is the author of Mindfulness & Grief and is the host of the Mindfulness & Grief Podcast. She has a Master’s Degree in Thanatology and is a certified yoga therapist in the Phoenix Rising tradition. Stang is on the board of advisors for Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) and partners with survivor and…
Christy Whitney Borchard served as the founding CEO of HopeWest for 29 years. She was founding director of an “all-volunteer” hospice in Durango, CO in 1979. She later served as Vice President of Mercy Medical Center and CEO of Hospice Northern Virginia, now Capital Caring. She is a co-founder of The National Partnership for Hospice…
Michelle Bronzo is a licensed clinical professional counselor specializing in grief counseling and loss. Her background includes work as a hospice bereavement counselor, an oncology clinical therapist, a support staff member for family caregivers, and a regulatory project associate for oncology clinical trials. She has experience providing individual and group counseling for both children and…
Darcy Harris is a professor in the Department of Thanatology at King’s University College in London, Ontario, Canada, where she also maintains a private clinical practice specializing in issues related to change, loss, and transition. She currently serves on the board of directors of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement and recently…
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…
Meggie Beaudoin-Kobb is the staff chaplain for the Emergency Department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the co-chair elect of the HUP Diversity & Inclusion Core Council and has pioneered a number of initiatives throughout Penn Medicine aimed at integration of and better care for patients with disabilities. In addition, she…
Michelle Brassil is a palliative care physician at Banner North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, CO, where she also serves as the Ethics Committee Chair. She completed her residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital –Harvard Medical School before completing her fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at the University of…
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