Palliative and End of Care Certificate Faculty

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Terry Altilio, LCSW

Professional Education Instructor
Terry Altilio is a palliative social work consultant with over three decades of direct practice experience in palliative care, most recently in the Division of…
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Mary Carmody, RN, LCSW

Professional Education Instructor
Mary Carmody, RN, LCSW recently retired as the Director of Care Management and Social Work at the NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital and Rusk Rehabilitation…
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Nancy Cincotta, M.Phil, LCSW, CLS

Professional Education Instructor
Nancy Cincotta, M.Phil, LCSW, CLS is a nationally known expert regarding issues that children and families experience while living with life-threatening illness…
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Rev. Barb Harris, MDIV, BCC-PCHAC

Professional Education Instructor
Rev. Barb Harris, MDIV, BCC-PCHAC is a Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) with the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) and an APC Advanced Practice…
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Judith L. Howe, Ph.D., M.P.A.

Professional Education Instructor
Judith Howe is professor in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and associate director…
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Anne M. Kelemen, LICSW, APHSW-C

Professional Education Instructor
Anne Kelemen is the director of Psychosocial/Spiritual Care for the Section of Palliative Care at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, where…
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Nicholas Koufacos, LCSW, ACHP-SW

Professional Education Instructor
Nicholas Koufacos, LCSW, ACHP-SW, is a clinical social worker and the senior education specialist at the VA Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center…
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Eunju Lee, M.S.W., MSOD, APHSW-C, LCSW

Professional Education Instructor
Eunju Lee, M.S.W., MSOD, APHSW-C, LCSW, has worked as a social worker and activist for over 30 years. She was a human and labor rights advocate in her native…
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Linda Mathew, M.S.W., D.S.W., LCSW-R

Professional Education Instructor
Dr. Linda Mathew has over 22 years of psycho-oncology experience. She is a social work manager to three Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) ambulatory sites. She…
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Barbara A. Reich, J.D.

Professional Education Instructor
Barbara Reich is a professor of law at Western New England University School of Law. She joined the law faculty in 2005 and teaches torts and a variety of…
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Lisa Zeitz, L.M.S.W.

Professional Education Instructor
Lisa Zeitz, L.M.S.W., began her career at NYU Medical Center in pediatric oncology. There she established new programs to support critically ill children and…