A medical doctor with a special calling, to alleviate the pain and suffering of vulnerable people such as those with life threatening illnesses, marginalized women and girls and others, to improve their
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Susan launched the Community Education program in 2005 at Mission Hospice. They provide education opportunities for community members and professionals who work with people experiencing illness, death, loss and/or grief.
Dr. Joanne Cacciatore is a researcher and professor at Arizona State University whose nearly 40 studies in the area of traumatic infant and child death have been published nationally.
She founded the MISS Foundation, an international organization
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Dr. Katie Eastman is a national grief/trauma therapist, speaker, and consultant with ReCreate Coaching and Counseling in Anacortes, Washington.
As a licensed psychotherapist, licensed social worker, and life coach specializing in loss and transition, she supports individuals
Deborah Grassman: The country’s foremost expert on veteran’s affairs involving hospice. Deborah Grassman is a Nurse Practitioner.
Her career at Bay Pines VA in St. Petersburg, Florida lasted for nearly 30 years, where she was the Director of the Hospice program and personally took care of 10,000
Liese Groot-Alberts was born in Fryslân, Netherlands. She lives in New Zealand working internationally as a public and keynote speaker, palliative care educator and mentor for healthcare professionals.
A registered nurse since 1988, Yvonne Heath has worked in the United States and Canada in many areas including emergency, intensive care, chemotherapy, palliative care, and hospice.
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.
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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.
Cole Imperi is a dual-certified thanatologist, a two-time TEDx speaker, and one of America’s leading experts on death, dying, and grief.
She is best known for her work pioneering the fields of Thanabotany and Deathwork
Dr. Karl Lorenz, MD, MSHS is a general internal medicine and palliative care physician, and Section Chief of the VA Palo Alto-Stanford Palliative Care Program. Formerly at the VA Greater Los Angeles, he directed palliative care research at the VA Center for Innovation to
Dani Monte is based in Fortaleza, Northeast, Brazil. After a near-death experience, I felt a turning point in my life when I met Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross. Those eyes looked straight in my soul and have been guiding me ever since. Her light, her love, her words touch my heart.
Marie Claire Mouhawej studied at St Joseph University in Beirut. She specialized in palliative care from Claude Bernard University in Lyon (France).
Dr. Christian Ntizimira is the Founder and Executive Director of ACREOL and an International member of the Faculty of The Palliative Care Centre for Excellence in Research and Education (PalC).
Natasha Pedersen is the founder and CEO of the only Nordic Organization working on palliative care for children.
She is educated as a pastor and a health care
Lanise is a registered nurse that has practiced in pediatric hospice and palliative care for nearly 2 decades. She is internationally certified in pediatric hospice and palliative care, as well as, perinatal loss care and bereavement. She leads Pediatric ELNEC train the trainer workshops globally.
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
Dr. Ann Toh works as a home hospice physician delivering family-centered whole-person care to children with life-threatening, life-limiting illness in StarPALS, HCA Hospice Care. She also serves as a volunteer physician and advocate for vulnerable people groups.
Mariya Vynnytska is a psychotherapist, educator, global health practitioner, co-founder and partner of Ukrainian Psychology Center THE SOUL. She is a practising psychoanalyst in Kyiv and has set up a psychology crisis centre serving persons affected by the war in Ukraine. She is passionate about developing community-based programs to help countries and communities affected by humanitarian crisis move through grief and trauma towards post-traumatic growth. Her interests include using creative and therapeutic means through social media and communication tools for driving social change and creating an impact. Maria has also experience as a consultant in international organisations, contributing to international and local projects in strategic development, budget and resource management, program design and implementation.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
MA in Communication & International Journalism (Focus on civil society, human rights and socio-economic development)
Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University 2002 – 2004
LLB (Jurisprudence)
(International law, human rights, public health, NGO sector)
National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine 2001 – 2006
