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.
The Humane Prison Hospice Project provides compassionate palliative, geriatric, memory, hospice, and end-of-life care support to incarcerated people, using an innovative model that trains incarcerated peer caregivers to work alongside the interdisciplinary care team. Lisa Deal and Laura Musselman will join Dr. Michele DiTomas to discuss the care needs of an aging prison population, the program, and how hospices can replicate the model in their own communities.
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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…
Doneley Meris is a grief psychotherapist and bereavement counseling mentor and training consultant. Meris is the founder and executive director of HIV Arts Network. He was the director of bereavement services at the New York City LGBT Community Center and chair of both the HIV/AIDS and LGBT Committees at the Association for Death Education and…
Nancy Messih is a seasoned clinical pharmacist with over two decades of diverse experience across hospice and palliative care, long-term care, specialty pharmacy, compounding, and retail settings. Currently serving at Care Dimensions Hospice and Palliative Care, she brings a patient-centered approach to medication management, ensuring safety, efficacy, and regulatory compliance in complex clinical environments. Nancy…
Matt Metevelis has served as a Chaplain at Nathan Adelson Hospice in Las Vegas for 15 years. Metevelis studied at the Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota to train for ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. During his preparation for ordination, Matt completed Clinical Pastoral Education in the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio…
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…
Angie Meyer is clinical manager of Home Health and Hospice at Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospitals and Clinics, and has been working in hospice for over ten years. As a Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse, she is dedicated to serving her community in rural Northeast Iowa. Meyer is the leader of the Gundersen Palmer Hospice…
Hannah-Rose Mitchell is an assistant professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. She is a clinical psychologist and specializes in using evidence-based treatments for adjustment to chronic illness in the patient and family.
Karen Monts has been employed in the work of end-of-life and grief support care for over 34 years. She is currently the Associate Vice President of Grief Support Services for Northstar Care Community where she is responsible for overall leadership and directing of the grief support program, She has also assisted with practice, policy, and…
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…
Bret Moore is a prescribing psychologist and board-certified clinical psychologist in San Antonio, TX. He is the Deputy Director of the Boulder Crest Institute and a former active duty Army psychologist and two-tour veteran of Iraq. He is the author and editor of 24 books. Moore is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and…
Lara Moretti educates hospitals, schools and various professional groups about grief, donation and transplantation in her role as Director, Family Support Services for Gift of Life Donor Program in Philadelphia, PA. Moretti has been with Gift of Life since 2003 where she oversees a team of licensed social workers and professional counselors who provide grief…
Lisa Morgan is a certified autism specialist and advocate of the autism community with regards to crisis supports, suicide prevention, and postvention. She is co-chair of the Autism and Suicide committee of the American Association of Suicidology and author of ‘Crisis Supports for the Autism Community–a toolkit. Lisa is a subject matter expert as an…
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