Cara Wallace is Votsmier Endowed Chair and Professor in the School of Nursing at Saint Louis University, with a secondary appointment in Social Work. A former hospice and hospital social worker, her research focuses on barriers, access, and quality of end-of-life care. Dr. Wallace has been published/featured in USA Today, Health Affairs Forefront, GeriPal, St. Louis Public Radio, and The Excerpt. An NIH-funded researcher, she has nearly 50 peer-reviewed publications and is a co-editor of the 2024 OUP textbook, Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Co-Director of the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work’s Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Program, and a 2020 Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar. She is also the 2020 recipient of the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network’s Award for Excellence in Psychosocial Research.
