Serious Illness Care Program Summit 2023: Driving Equity in Serious Illness Communication and Care

2023 Faculty

Faculty information for the 2024 course is not yet available.

Rebekah Angove, PhD
Executive Vice President of Research and Evaluation and Director of Patient Insight Institute, Patient Advocate Foundation

Brett Auger, BS 
Project Manager, Ariadne Labs

Elizabeth Beddard-Huber, MSN, RN, CHPCN(C)
Former Clinical Lead, Serious Illness Conversation Initiative, BC Centre for Palliative Care; Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia School of Nursing

Rachelle Bernacki, MD, MS
Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs; Director of Quality Initiatives, Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Asaf Bitton, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Ariadne Labs; Associate Professor of Medicine, General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW, FGSA, APHSW-C
Professor, Boston College School of Social Work

Isaac Chua, MD, MPH 
Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Amelia Cullinan, MD FAAHPM
Director of Outpatient Palliative Care Services, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Co-Director of the Serious Illness Care Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine 

Carine Davila, MD, MPH
Palliative Care Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

Nora Downey, BA 
Senior Project Manager, Serious Illness Care Program, Ariadne Labs

Stacey Downey, MA
Associate Director, Serious Illness Care Program, Ariadne Labs

Alexandra Drane, BA
Co-Founder & CEO, ARCHANGELS

Alexis Drutchas, MD
Palliative Care Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Phil Garrity, MDiv
Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, Ariadne Labs

Catherine Givens Arnold, LICSW, ACHP-SW
Clinical Lead, Palliative Care, Brigham & Women's Hospital; Manager, Palliative Care Social Work, Brigham & Women's Hospital; Faculty, Simmons College Graduate Studies

Matthew Gonzales, MD, FAAHPM
Associate Vice President, Chief Medical and Operations Officer, Providence Institute for Human Caring

Reverend Sabrina Gray
Senior Program Minister and Coordinator of Planning Ahead, Bethel AME Church

Marisette Hasan, BSN, RN
Vice President of Community Action & Policy, The Center to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC); Program Coordinator, The South Carolina Coalition for the Care of the Seriously Ill; Principal/CEO, LifeSprings Consulting Group, LLC

Seiko Izumi, PhD, RN, FPCN
Associate Professor, Oregon Health & Science University

Pallavi Kumar, MD, MPH
Director of Oncology Palliative Care, Penn Medicine; Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Penn Medicine

Joshua Lakin, MD
Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs; Attending Physician in Adult Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Kate Lally, MD, FAAHPM
Clinical Director of Adult Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Abigail Latimer, PhD, MSW, LCSW, APHSW-C
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky College of Nursing; Outpatient Palliative Clinical Social Worker, UK HealthCare

Ricky Leiter, MD, MA
Palliative Care Physician, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Caitlyn McNaughton, MHSc, PA-C
Physician Assistant, Hematology, Medical Oncology, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health

Diane Meier, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC); Professor, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Co-Director, Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center, Mount Sinai Health System

Namita Seth Mohta, MD
Executive Editor, NEJM Catalyst; Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs

Rachel Moyal-Smith, DrPH, PA-C
Senior Clinical Implementation Specialist, Ariadne Labs; Physician Assistant, Albany Medical Center

Amanda Murphy, RN
Clinical Implementation Specialist, Ariadne Labs

Nico Nortje, PhD
Executive Director, Section of Integrated Ethics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Director, Goal Concordant Care and End-of-Life, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jo Paladino, MD
Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs; Faculty Investigator, Mongan Institute, Center for Aging and Serious Illness, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Leidy Pimentel
Patient Navigator, Lynn Community Health Center

Coleen Reid, MD
Chief of Palliative Care, North Shore Medical Center

Ann Reynoso, MA

Jennifer Rodine, MPH
Learning Design Specialist, Ariadne Labs

Justin Sanders, MD, MSc, FAAHPM
Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs; Kappy and Eric M. Flanders Chair of Palliative Care, Director, Division of Palliative Care; Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University

Karen Schoenherr, BA
Senior Project Manager, Ariadne Labs

Catherine Schofield, BS
Project Coordinator, Serious Illness Care Program, Ariadne Labs

Ruth E. Scott RN, MHA, CCM
Senior Director, Population Health Management, Integra Community Care Network, LLC

Shanthi Sivendran, MD, MBA
Clinical Associate Professor, Penn Medicine; Division Chief Hematology, Oncology, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health

Danetta Sloan, PhD, MSW, MA
Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Principal Faculty, Memory & Aging Services Innovation Center at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 

Karen Terrell, MBA
Program Manager, Ethics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Winnie Teuteberg, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Clinical Director, Serious Illness Care Program, Stanford University School of Medicine

Annette Totten, PhD
Associate Professor, Oregon Health & Science University

Garrett Wasp, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine

Andy Williams
Patient and Family Advisor, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center