Jackie Palmore is the clinical coordinator for the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical Center. A registered nurse for 38 years, she has devoted the majority of her career to palliative, supportive, and hospice/home care. She played a pivotal role in the development of UAB’s 12-bed inpatient Palliative and Comfort Care Unit in 2004 and has since helped establish the inpatient consult service and the broader palliative care interdisciplinary team. In addition, as a faculty member of the Palliative Care Leadership Center at the UAB Center to Advance Palliative Care, she has helped train more than 50 hospice and palliative care teams nationwide. In 2001, she spearheaded the creation of the first hospice program in the Alabama Department of Corrections. She was the first nurse at UAB to earn national certification in palliative nursing and recently completed UAB’s Pain and Addiction Scholars program.