2023

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 program. Previously, he was clinical director of the Virginia Commonwealth University/ Massey Cancer Palliative Care Service, where he developed an inpatient unit and worked on statewide initiatives to improve palliative care. A clinical nurse specialist, he is co-PI on several grants to educate rural and community health providers on primary palliative care. He is on the national and international faculty of

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 served as charge nurse. She joined the Yale palliative care team in 2013. She is co-author, with Leslie Blatt, of a chapter in the Core Curriculum for the Hospice & Palliative APRN. She received her undergraduate and graduate nursing degrees from Fairfield University, where she trained as a family nurse practitioner. She holds certifications as an advanced certified hospice and

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 who are pregnant with a baby with a life-limiting diagnosis and who wish to continue their pregnancy. McCarthy has been a bedside NICU nurse for most of her 40-year nursing career. She has lectured internationally about perinatal palliative nursing care. She is the winner of the 2023 Ilene Beal Courageous Provider Award, which honors a pediatric provider who gives exceptional