Expert Panel on Palliative & End-of-Life Care

The Expert Panel on Palliative and End-of-Life Care identifies and disseminates the public policy priorities for clinical care, research and education related to palliative and end of life care. This includes legislation related to advance care planning, importance for and recognition of the need for and coverage of hospice and palliative care its role in health care reform.

Inaugural Year: 2000

Lead Co-Chair:
Paula M. Meek, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Director of PhD Program
University of Colorado

Co-Chair:
Haleah Buck, PhD, RN, FPCN, FAAN
Associate Professor
University of South Florida College of Nursing
Co-Chair Appointee:
Sharon Kozachik, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Board Liaison: Kenneth R. White, PhD, AGACNP-BC, FACHE, FAAN

Previous Chairs: Emily Haozous, Inge B. Corless (2006), Anne Belcher (2001), Connie Dahlin (2000), Anne Hughes (2000) 

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Recent Publications: 

• Policy Brief: The Institute of Medicine report Dying in America: Improving quality and honoring individual preferences near the end of life. Nursing Outlook 63 (December 2014) 51.
• Policy Brief: Advance care planning as an urgent public health concern. Nursing Outlook 60 (November 2012) 417.

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