Frances T. McCarthy

Frances T. McCarthy, MS, RNC-NIC, CPLC. McCarthy is a clinical coordinator of the Neonatal Comfort Care Program at New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of Columbia University. The primary focus of the program is to provide support to women …

Christina Holt

Christina Holt, MSN, APRN (BC), ACHPN, OCN. Holt is lead nurse practitioner for the palliative care team at Yale School of Medicine. She began her career as a staff nurse for inpatient gynecology-oncology at Yale-New Haven Health, where she often …

Patrick J. Coyne

Patrick J. Coyne, MSN, ACNS-BC, ACHPN, FAAN, FPCN. Coyne is an assistant professor of palliative care at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and, for nearly eight years until his retirement last month, was the director of this …

Shellie Williams, MD

Shellie Williams, MD, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, where she practices both geriatric and palliative medicine. William’s clinical focus is primarily with aging dementia patients in underserved communities on Chicago’s South Side. Williams is …

J. Randall Curtis, M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Curtis has been a pulmonary, critical care, and palliative care physician at Harborview Medical Center at the University of Washington. He also holds the A. Bruce Montgomery – American Lung Association Endowed Chair in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine …

Rachel Walker Vandermeer

Rachel Walker Vandermeer is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UT Health San Antonio. She is the Inpatient Pediatric Palliative Care Medical Director at University Hospital in San Antonio. As part of her role, she helped develop the University …

Craig D. Blinderman, M.D., M.A.

Craig D. Blinderman, M.D., M.A. is the director of the Adult Palliative Care Service at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the program director of the Bi-Campus (Columbia and Cornell) Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. His …

Alyssa Tilly

Dr. Alyssa Tilly is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and the Palliative Care Program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. She is board certified in …

Erin Perez, DNP, APRN, ANP-C, AGNP-C, ACHPN

Dr. Perez is a three-time University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) School of Nursing alumni and UTMB Hall of Fame inductee. She is an adult and geriatric nurse practitioner that subspecializes in palliative and hospice care. Dr. Perez is an …

Dillon Stein, DO

Dillon Stein, DO is the Director of the Division of Palliative Care at Butler Health System in Butler, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate biology degree from Alfred University, followed by his medical degree from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. …