Darcia L. Simpson, BS, MDiv, PhD, CT

Darcia Simpson is an integral member of the transdisciplinary care team at Hospice of the Western Reserve. As a full-time spiritual care coordinator/chaplain, she collaborates with physicians, registered nurses, social workers, and other healthcare professionals to assess patient and family spiritual needs, identify spiritual problems, develop goals of care, and implement appropriate interventions. She is…

Jocelyn R. Smith Lee, PhD

Jocelyn Smith Lee is an assistant professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her research examines the health disparities of violent injury and violent death and works to understand how losing loved ones to homicide shapes the health, well-being, development, and family relationships of Black males and their…

Brad Speaks

Brad Speaks is the President and CEO of Speaks Family Legacy Chapels. He runs three funeral homes, a cemetery, a crematory, and a pre-need operation in the Kansas City area. He is a past president of the Selected Independent Funeral Homes association, the largest group of family-operated funeral homes in the world. Speaks is a…

Heather Stang MA, C-IAYT

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…

Gary Stein, JD, MSW

Gary Stein is Professor at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work – Yeshiva University, NY, where he is a tenured faculty member in the master’s and doctoral programs. He is also the director of the Gerontology and Palliative Care Programs for MSW students and for clergy. He is PI of the study, “Project Respect: Experiences…

David Steinhorn, MD, FAAP

David Steinhorn is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School with residency in pediatrics and fellowship training in pediatric hepatology and critical care medicine. He completed post-doctoral training in 1997 in hospice and palliative medicine at Hospice Buffalo in New York and has been continuously board-certified in those specialties. Steinhorn served on the…

Judith Stillion, PhD

Judith Stillion is professor emerita of psychology and currently serves as a consultant on a variety of subjects including end-of-life issues, meaningful aging, positive psychology applied to grieving and dying, and facilitation of grief groups. Stillion’s varied career includes teaching and counseling in the public schools and at the university level. She also served as…

Elisa Stone

Elisa Stone is a Grief Specialist at YoloCares Hospice & Palliative Care. She has decades of experience supporting and educating those facing life-limiting situations. Elisa is accomplished in developing and managing social programs and services, she focuses on the emotional life of individuals and families across the age spectrum. She has extensive experience supporting and guiding…

Margaret Stroebe, PhD

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….

Carla Stumpf Patton, EdD, LMHC

Carla Stumpf Patton is the senior director of Suicide Postvention Programs at the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). As a subject matter expert in grief, trauma, and suicide, she helped develop the TAPS Suicide Postvention Model™, providing outreach and care to bereaved survivors. She is trained in Crisis Response Planning, certified as an Applied…

Katherine Supiano, PhD, LCSW, F-GSA, FT, APHSW-C

Katherine Supiano is a professor in the College of Nursing and the director of Caring Connections: A Hope and Comfort in Grief Program at the University of Utah College of Nursing. Supiano’s research is in clinical interventions in complicated and prolonged grief, and the grief of those who are bereaved by suicide or overdose death…