2022

During her career, Barbara Reville, DNP, ANP-BC, ACHPN was committed to care of the seriously-ill as a clinician, leader and educator. Since 2014 she has been the Nurse Director for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Adult Palliative Care division and a nurse practitioner on the palliative care consultation service. As faculty in the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care, Barbara built educational content to emphasize nursing’s role in interprofessional palliative care and to empower nurses to fulfill their potential as equal contributors within palliative care’s team-based model. She widely disseminated her ideas through publication of curricula designed to facilitate the

As an LVN Specialist with over twenty years’ experience in healthcare, Juanita Georges brings knowledge and expertise to University Health Palliative Care. She acquired her Licensed Vocational Nursing education at Baptist School of Nursing and currently attends Indiana State University Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program. Juanita is integral to clinic process development in conjunction with Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services regulatory requirements, organizational expectations, and evidence based research. Due to Juanita’s diligence and leadership acumen, The Joint Commission (TJC) surveyed University Health’s Palliative Care Clinic specifically to get a glimpse into palliative clinic operations in order to employ future TJC

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. Subsequently, he moved back to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to complete an Internal Medicine residency and Chief Residency at West Penn Allegheny Health System. After finishing his Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2016, he began practicing palliative care in Butler where he helped establish an inpatient consult service and began the only outpatient palliative care clinic

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 avid advocate for the nursing profession and high-risk patient populations. She is recognized as a pioneer to advance Supportive Palliative Care for vulnerable Texans. Her scholarly project, completed during her doctoral program, “Defining Supportive Palliative Care” was selected for an award at the 2019 Center to Advance Palliative Care national conference and helped the national organization in creating a toolbox for

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 Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics. She graduated from the University of Alabama School of Medicine and then trained in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UNC. After serving as chief resident for Med-Peds, she completed fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at UNC. Dr. Tilly currently practices both adult and pediatric palliative medicine and serves as the Program

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 academic and personal interests are at the intersection of narrative medicine, philosophy, and contemplative practice in the care of patients with serious illness. His numerous publications address a wide range of topics: early palliative care in lung cancer patients (NEJM, 2010), a differentiated approach to code status (JAMA, 2012), comfort care for the dying (NEJM, 2015), cancer pain management, narrative palliative

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 Health Perinatal Palliative Care Program, which provides perinatal palliative care to families expecting a baby with serious illness. Regarding education, she currently participates in in both adult and pediatric hospice and palliative medicine fellowship education, and she is involved in medical student pediatric clerkship education as the Assistant Pediatric Clerkship Director. Lastly, she serves on the Executive Admissions Committee for the

Dr. J. Randall Curtis, MD (deceased) 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 and he is the founding Director of the Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence at UW Medicine. He has an active research program with over 25 years of continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health and has also received funding from a number of foundations including the Cambia Health Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,