Lynn F. Reinke, PhD, ANP-BC, FAAN, FPCN 

Dr. Reinke received her PhD from the University of Washington School of Nursing in 2008. She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Health Services R&D at the VA Health Care System in Seattle. Recognizing the importance of research informing health policy, she was a Health and Aging Policy Fellow from 2016-2017. She served as a Co-Director of the UW Palliative Care Graduate Certificate Program from 2019-2021. In January 2022, Dr. Reinke assumed the position of the Claire Dumke Ryberg, RN, Presidential Endowed Chair for Palliative and End of Life Care at the University of Utah, College on Nursing. In 2024, she was appointed Director of the Center for Family Integrated Healthcare within the College of Nursing.

Dr. Reinke’s clinical practice and program of research focuses on improving the delivery of palliative and end-of-life care for patients and their families with serious illnesses. She is internationally recognized as an expert in dyspnea management for patients diagnosed with advanced lung diseases. Her studies, funded by NIH and VA, are designed to test nurse-led palliative care interventions and on improving the quality of clinicians’ end-of-life communication skills.

Dr. Reinke was selected in the inaugural cohort of the Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program in 2014. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and serves as the 2024 President for the Hospice & Palliative Nursing Association and Foundation.