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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Kathleen Broglio is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and Nurse Practitioner in Palliative Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. She has conducted research on the prevalence of opioid risk in oncology; cannabis use in palliative medicine; implementation of opioid management guidelines in the palliative care setting; and interprofessional…
Michelle Bronzo is a licensed clinical professional counselor specializing in grief counseling and loss. Her background includes work as a hospice bereavement counselor, an oncology clinical therapist, a support staff member for family caregivers, and a regulatory project associate for oncology clinical trials. She has experience providing individual and group counseling for both children and…
Molly Brooks is a board member of Hero’s Bridge. She is a registered nurse with over 23 years experience with specialty certifications in gerontology and hospice and palliative care. Throughout her professional and personal life, she has dedicated herself to caring for others, especially aging veterans.
Ramona Bullock-Johnson is a clinical social worker, specializing in substance use disorders and addiction treatment in Boston, MA. Primarily providing services to individuals, families and other consumers of community-based interventions, she focuses on the mental health and well-being of patients and clients with co-occurring disorders, including those with serious illness. Bullock-Johnson is an educator, researcher,…
Karen Bullock is the Ahearn Endowed Professor in the Boston College School of Social Work. Her practice interests include health disparities and health equity in serious illness care; aging and gerontology; and hospice, palliative, and end-of-life care decision making. Her research focuses on cancer care, social support for older adults, diversity, equity, and cultural factors…
Moreen Burkart, MT-BC, is a board-certified music therapist with over a decade of experience specializing in older adults with chronic and neurologic conditions. She holds dual bachelor’s degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in Music Technology with minors in business and psychology from St. Mary’s University, and a Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy from Augsburg…
Laurie Burke is a licensed clinical psychologist who maintains an active private practice in Portland, OR that is dedicated to serving grieving individuals, with a primary focus on assisting traumatically bereaved adults (e.g., individuals grieving losses from homicide, suicide, or fatal accident). She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Memphis where…
Sara Bybee serves as assistant professor at the University of Utah College of Nursing, where she leads research on health equity and structural determinants of health in complex care settings. Her program of research examines how systemic barriers shape health outcomes for historically marginalized populations, with particular emphasis on dementia, palliative care, and chronic illness…
Joanne Cacciatore is a professor at Arizona State University and leads the Graduate Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement program. She is also the founder of the international NGO the MISS Foundation and the Selah Carefarm, helping those who have experienced violent and mass deaths, the deaths of children, suicide loss, and other catastrophic losses. Cacciatore’s…
John Cagle is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland-Baltimore School of Social Work with a substantive interest in improving care at the end of life. As a translational health services researcher, his efforts have focused on identifying effective models of care and support for dying patients and their families, and implementing those models…
Amy Calligan is a regional pediatric registered nurse case manager for Capital Caring Health. For almost 20 years, Amy has been a passionate advocate for her patients and sees her work with pediatric hospice patients as a way to enhance the quality of the child’s life during what she feels are their most vital moments….
Carla Cheatham began her career in psychosocial services before working as an interfaith healthcare chaplain and bereavement coordinator. She is a national keynote speaker and consultant focusing on emotionally intelligent and resilient professionals and organizations, Chair of NHPCO’s Ethics Advisory Council, former Leader for NHPCO’s Spiritual Caregivers Community, Adjunct Professor at Seminary of the Southwest,…
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