Experts & Educators
We are a hub for the country’s most distinguished hospice and grief experts, researchers, and professionals. HFA experts help to inform and educate on a wide range of timely and relevant topics essential to best practice.
Our HFA educators are well known and widely recognized as experts in their fields.
They’re researchers with decades of knowledge backed by evidenced-based studies.
They’re professionals who have honed their skills with years of patient and family care.
HFA has been privileged to include many notable experts in its professional education offerings over the past 30 years, including the late Earl. A Grollman; Nancy Hogan, RN, PhD; Karla Holloway, PhD; the late William M. Lamers, MD; the late Richard E. Payne, MD.
Below is a complete listing of our presenters and authors from 2020 onward. We are grateful for their willingness to share their expertise to advance hospice and bereavement care through HFA.
Luke’s Wings’ Veterans in Hospice Transportation Assistance Program (H.T.A.P.) provides free flights for the loved ones of Veterans in hospice care. Through H.T.A.P., Luke’s Wings is honored to provide a final salute to these extraordinary men and women and ensure their loved ones have the opportunity to be physically present when it matters most.
Join Ms. Yaede who will discuss this impactful program as well as their No Service Member Spends The Holidays Alone campaign, which helps ensure service members, Veterans, and their families can be together during the holiday season.
This is a free 30-minute informational session. Continuing education not available.
Mackenzie serves as the Family Communications and Logistics Coordinator at Luke’s Wings, where she manages the day-to-day operations of the organization’s flight assistance programs for wounded warriors, Veterans, fallen officers, and their families., she reviews and approves flight requests, coordinates with travel partners, supports program reporting, and collaborates with partner organizations to ensure seamless and…
Siobhan Aaron is an Assistant Professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University and an inpatient palliative care nurse practitioner. Her clinical expertise includes hospice, end-of-life care, and grief interventions. Dr. Aaron’s research focuses on health disparities in palliative care, culturally centered grief interventions, and improving patient-provider communication about…
Kimberly Acquaviva is both Founding Faculty at George Washington University’s School of Nursing and the first non-nurse to receive tenure there. As a social worker teaching within the school, Dr. Acquaviva’s research and scholarship are interdisciplinary and collaborative. Dr. Acquaviva is nationally known as an innovator and authority on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or…
Charmayne Adams is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her clinical background focuses on working with individuals with a history of trauma or in crisis, including traumatic loss. Her research focuses on teaching about trauma, stress response and coping, systemic and emotion-focused…
Debra Albo-Steiger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and currently serves as the CEO of Children’s Bereavement Center and Lift From Loss for adults. With over twenty years of experience in education, mental health, policy, and social services, Debra has dedicated her career to advocating and supporting children, youth, and their families. She began her…
Kaitlyn Allen is the Senior Director of Patient Services at Hudson Valley Hospice in New York. With over 12 years of nursing experience, 10 years have been spent serving patients and their caregivers in the hospice setting. Kaitlyn started her hospice career as an RN case manager, providing direct care and coordination across HVH’s care settings. Over…
Patti Anewalt is founder and previous director of the Pathways Center for Grief & Loss with Hospice & Community Care. The focus of her clinical practice, writing and teaching is on issues related to end of life, grief, compassion fatigue and crisis response, presenting at the national, state and local level. Anewalt is a Fellow…
Carla Archuletta is a licensed professional counselor, Tennessee Approved Supervisor, National Certified Counselor, Fellow in Thanatology, educator, and end-of-life doula whose work focuses on grief and bereavement, serious illness, caregiving, dementia, medical trauma, and end-of-life care. Carla is an instructor with the University of Vermont’s End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate and Grief & Bereavement Specialist Certificate…
Carrie Arnold obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology, a Master of Education (Counselling), both from the University of Western Ontario, and a PhD (Psychology) from Saybrook University. She is a Certified Canadian Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, is registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers…
Author of The New York Times bestseller Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End, Alua Arthur is the most visible death doula in America today. She is a recovering attorney and the founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. Her TED Talk titled,…
Amber Ash is a pediatric hospice and palliative care social worker and co-chair of the Trauma Informed Care Committee at Hospice of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. She also has experience providing end-of-life care to adults and has served as a clinical supervisor. Amber has served as a field educator for social work students at…
Christina Axelrod has been a Music Therapist for Hospice of the Western Reserve for 12 years and stepped into the role of Internship Director in 2015. Christina graduated from State University of New Paltz in 2007 and is currently enrolled in the Clinical Mental Health program at Cleveland State for her counseling license. In 2021,…
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