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.
Working with people confronting grief, loss, trauma, and tragedy is an intensely personal endeavor—one that carries well-documented risks for practitioners, including burnout, moral distress, and compassion fatigue. Yet current research and clinical wisdom show that the demands of this work can be managed effectively and may even promote personal and professional growth. Drawing on recent developments in positive psychology, neuroscience, and contemporary psychotherapy, this session presents evidence-based strategies to strengthen emotional resilience, sustain meaningful self-care, and enhance clinical effectiveness.
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Stephanie Wladkowski s the Larry & Patty Benz Professor and a Professor of Social Work at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Wladkowski has several years of clinical practice experience as an independent licensed social worker in hospice and palliative care, which directly informs her research and teaching in health, aging, interprofessional education, and end-of-life care….
William Worden is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and holds academic appointments at the Harvard Medical School and at the Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology in California. He is also Co-Principal Investigator of the Harvard Child Bereavement Study, based at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Recipient of five major National Institutes of Health grants,…
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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