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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Patricia Moyle Wright is a Professor of Nursing at The University of Scranton and practices as a palliative care and hospice nurse practitioner. She conducts research on end-of-life care, including grief, loss, and bereavement. She has published numerous articles and books on end-of-life care.
Teri Yarbrow is President of MagikaVRx, an immersive media company and founder of “Creating AWE” a VR program for healthcare facilities. She is a Professor of XR Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine, a Founding Member of AMXRA and VR Evangelist, passionate about XR Healthcare strategy and Immersive VR Therapy. An Emmy, and multiaward-winning…
Justin Yopp is a clinical psychologist and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill. Yopp is Director of Psycho-Oncology Services within the Comprehensive Cancer Support Program at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He co-leads both the Widowed Parent Program and the Parenting with Cancer Clinic at UNC. Yopp…
Yelena Zatulovsky is the Vice President of Patient Experience at AccentCare with over 20 years of bedside experience working with patients and families at the end-of-life. In addition to hospice and palliative care, Yelena is licensed as a Mental Health Practitioner, board-certified as a Child Life Specialist, and holds an advanced designation (along with board certification) as a Hospice &…
Jessica Zitter specializes in Critical Care and Palliative Care medicine and practices at a public hospital in Oakland, California. She is the founder of Reel Medicine Media, a non-profit focused on humanizing end-of-life care and author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. Her work is featured in the Oscar…
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