Sue Boucher
Since 2007, Sue Boucher has been the International Information Officer for the International Children’s Palliative Care Network (ICPCN). She sits on the boards of the Umduduzi Hospice Care for Children in Durban and the South African National Children’s Palliative Care Network (PATCH-SA).
She has authored numerous teacher resource materials and children’s reading books, including Sunflower House, the story of a children’s hospice in Bloemfontein, South Africa. In 2006 she wrote a manual called Promoting Early Childhood Development within Pediatric Palliative Care and was a contributing author to the Oxford Textbook for Children’s Palliative Care in Africa. She co-edited the ICPCN Publication, Touching Rainbows.
Dr. Joanne Cacciatore is researcher and professor at Arizona State University whose nearly 40 studies in the area of traumatic infant and child death have been published nationally.
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Dr. Katie Eastman has held a series of mental health related positions working with children and families, culminating in work with seriously ill and dying children and most recently adults with Cancer.
Deborah Grassman: The country’s foremost expert on veteran’s affairs involving hospice. Deborah Grassman is a Nurse Practitioner.
Jennifer Hale is the Executive Director for the Georgia Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Nancy Hinds was a missionary nurse in the West Indies, Nigeria and Uganda. Married to an Irish Missionary physician, they had 3 sons. After caring for her husband and mother dying with cancer, her path led her into the care of the terminally ill for the last 32 years. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was a mentor and voice of understanding over the years.
Eric Ellsworth Hipple is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Detroit Lions in the fourth round of the 1980 NFL Draft. A quarterback from Utah State, Hipple played in ten NFL seasons for the Lions in the 1980’s. As a result of his fifteen-year-old son’s suicide in 2000, Hipple chose to dedicate his life to educating people around the world about the dangers of depression and the potential for empowerment and mental wellness through knowledge on the topic.
Dr. Heidi Horsley is a licensed psychologist and social worker, and is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Open to Hope Foundation. Heidi is in private practice in Manhattan.
Dr. Gloria Horsley MFT CNS Ph.D. is the Founder and President of Open to Hope Foundation the world’s largest multi media web based resource for the bereaved. Dr. Gloria co-hosts, with her daughter Dr. Heidi, the cable television series “Grief Relief” and an Internet radio show.
A graduate of MIT and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Joseph is board-certified in Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine as well as Chronic and Acute Pain Management. A Physician Executive, Inventor, and Entrepreneur, he has served as a director, trustee, consultant or advisory board member for dozens of organizations, ranging from hospitals to start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations, and is very active in education and community service.
Dr. Stacy Orloff is the Vice President of Palliative Care and Community Programs at Suncoast Hospice.
Natasha Pedersen is the founder and CEO of the only Nordic Organization working on palliative care for children.
Paul Quilliam is the Cofounder and Executive Director of Queensland Kids – formed to establish Hummingbird House as only the third children’s hospice in Australia. He was the founding Board Chair when Queensland Kids incorporated in February 2011. Paul has been a leading educator and IT administrator in the independent education sector for almost two decades with experience in Australian and international school contexts.
Irene Smith is Founder and Director of