Brenda Hernández, MA
Brenda Hernández es Coordinadora Programa Satélite de Español para el centro de apoyo al duelo OUR HOUSE Grief Support Center, en Los Ángeles, CA.
Experts & Educators
Hospice and grief experts, researchers, and professionals.
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.
Nationally and internationally acclaimed
Our HFA educators are well known and widely recognized as experts in their fields.
Leaders in evidence-based research
They’re researchers with decades of knowledge backed by evidenced-based studies.
Highly respected, skilled, and experienced
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.
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Managing Challenging Hospice Dilemmas (H5HDL)
December 10, 2024
at 12:00 pm ET
December 10, 2024 — Noon-1:30pm ET
Using a case study approach, this course addresses frequent but difficult medical and ethical situations that every hospice professional encounters. Cases studies and best practice presentations include: providing hospice care to patients with mental health conditions; use and discontinuation of artificial nutrition and hydration in hospice, including communication with families and patients; and effective pain relief at the end of life using non-opioids, including use of non-opioids for patients with substance abuse disorder.
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Stephen P. Hersh, MD
Stephen Hersh is a psychiatrist who has specialized in dealing with the chronically and terminally ill and their families.
William Hoy, DMin, FT
For the last 40 years, William Hoy has been walking alongside the dying, the bereaved, and the professionals who care for them. Following more than 17 years directing the bereavement program for a southern California community hospice program, Hoy became clinical professor of medical humanities at Baylor University where he served from 2012 to 2024….
Nick Jehlen
Nick Jehlen is the founder of Common Practice and the lead designer of the games Hello and My Gift of Grace, which have been used by families and organizations around the world to support more and better conversations about living and dying well. Applying his background in human factors engineering and design, Jehlen has been…
Bruce Jennings, MA
Bruce Jennings is Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Health Policy and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. He is a former Executive Vice President and current Fellow and Senior Advisor of the Hastings Center, a nonprofit research center that studies ethical issues in society, medicine and the life sciences. In…
Liza Johnson, RN, MBA, BSN, CHPN
Liza Johnson is Vice President of Clinical Services at Community Nursing Service Home Health and Hospice, West Valley City, UT. Liza has work in the home health and hospice industry for almost 19 years. She obtained her Bachelor’s in Nursing from Westminster School of Nursing and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of…
Adrienne Jones-Adamczyk, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, HEC-C
Adrienne Jones-Adamczyk is the Senior Clinical Ethics Specialty Program Director for Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. She completed a Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School in May of 2023 and brings over 14 years of experience as a board-certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse to…
Ashley Keagle, LMSW
Ashley Keagle is a licensed social worker and the Director of Life Transitions – Mercy Doula program for People Inc., one of the leading agencies in services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. In this unique and innovative effort, Keagle has capitalized on the gap in service for end-of-life care, companionship in dying, and…
Corey L. Kennard, MACM
Corey Kennard is Pastor of Amplify Christian Church and also serves as a national activist in the field of healthcare. His holistic approach serves as the foundation for his desire to see all human beings treated with dignity, honor, and respect in all facets of life. He has been involved in the field of healthcare…
Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD
Christopher Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer for Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo. He has overseen the integration and expansion of palliative care into hospitals and developed a large home-based program for both adults and children and has published on innovative program models that are designed to better align patient/family services…
Leigh Ann Kingsbury, MPA
Leigh Ann Kingsbury is the CEO and Principal Consultant of InLeadS Consulting. For more than 30 years she has strived to use best practices in supporting people who live with disabilities, including people with physical disabilities, people who live with intellectual and developmental disabilities, older adults, and people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias….
Timothy Kirk, PhD, HEC-C
Timothy Kirk is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, York College, specializing in healthcare ethics with an emphasis on hospice and palliative care. He also holds an appointment in the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center. Kirk is an ethics consultant with MJHS Hospice & Palliative Care, one…
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