Kristi Barfield, BS, RN, CHPN, is the Aurora at Home Manager of Hospice and Palliative Care in southeastern Wisconsin. With nearly three decades of experience in end-of-life care, Kristi is devoted to hospice and palliative care as a leader, educator and bedside nurse. She has worked extensively with the We Honor Veterans program in New York and Wisconsin and credits her first hospice patient, a WWII veteran, for teaching her about veteran-specific needs.

Kathleen Broglio, DNP, ANP-BC, ACHPN, CPE, FPCN, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Nurse Practitioner in the section of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and a Scholar at the Dartmouth Collaboratory for Implementation Sciences. Her current studies include: opioid risk assessment in oncology; cannabis use in palliative medicine; implementation of opioid management guidelines in palliative care clinic; and interprofessional education in palliative and hospice. She recently completed a quality improvement project funded through the National Institute of Drug Abuse on screening for substance use disorder in the cancer population.

Ira Byock, MD, FAAHPM, is a palliative care physician, author, and advocate for improving care through the end of life. Dr. Byock has been involved in palliative care since 1978. He is a past President (1997) of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and has received the Academy's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. He is active Emeritus Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Byock lectures nationally and internationally. His books include Dying Well, The Four Things That Matter Most, and The Best Care Possible.

Toby Campbell, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH). He is a thoracic medical oncologist. Chief of Palliative Care and the Ellen and Peter O. Johnson Chair in Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin. He was the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program Director from 2010-2017. He completed a residency in internal medicine at UWSMPH and fellowship programs in medical oncology and hospice and palliative medicine at Northwestern University. His research interests are in communication education, empathy, high-risk shared decision-making, and models of care for palliative care implementation. Dr. Campbell's work on communication crosses a variety of disciplines, and he has published in multiple major medical journals on that and other topics.

Ann Catlett, MD, joined the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine as a Clinical Instructor in 2016. She obtained her M.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. Dr. Catlett is board certified Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Catlett practices as faculty attending on the Palliative Care Service. Her interests include complex illness, ethics in end of life decision-making, and care for the homeless and marginalized.

Liana Eskola, DO, is a palliative medicine clinician educator who practices at the Madison VA hospital and University of Wisconsin. Originally from Northern California, she was educated at Haverford College, the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, UCSD, and the University of Wisconsin. In her current role, she teaches medical trainees at all levels of training; spearheads a QI project aimed at improving quality of life for people with heart failure; and does resiliency and narrative medicine work with medical students and palliative medicine fellows. She lives in Madison, WI, with her husband and their opinionated cat.

Clay Hoberman, DO, has been practicing full-time Hospice & Palliative Medicine in the Omaha, NE metro area for the past 9 years in a variety of inpatient, outpatient, and community settings. Currently, he serves as a Regional Medical Director for St. Croix Hospice. Dr. Hoberman is board certified in both Hospice & Palliative Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He has a passion for providing compassionate, high quality care at the end of life as well as promoting the cultural acceptance of hospice and palliative care as an integral part of the healthcare continuum.

Thaddeus Pope, JD, PhD is Director of Health Law Institute and Professor of Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Professor Pope has nearly 200 publications in leading medical journals, law reviews bar journals, nursing journals, bioethics journals, and book chapters. He coauthors the definitive treatise The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, and he runs the Medical Futility Blog (with nearly four million page-views). Professor works to calibrate the balance between individual liberty and public health in the end-of-life medical treatment context. Specific research topics have included: medical futility, unwanted medical treatment, ethics committees, brain death, advance directives, surrogate decision making, unrepresented patients, aid in dying, and VSED. More recently, he has been innovating new legal tools to better assure fair internal dispute resolution mechanisms, and adequate informed consent with patient decision aids. Prior to joining academia, Professor Pope practiced at Arnold & Porter LLP and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Pope earned a JD and PhD (in philosophy and bioethics) from Georgetown University.

He is also Adjunct Professor with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology; Adjunct Associate Professor with the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College; and Visiting Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at St. Georges University.

Sarah Rogers, LCSW, is the coordinator and outpatient social worker for the Palliative Care Program at the William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital in Madison, WI. During her 12 years with the VA, she has also helped care for veterans and their loved ones in the areas of mental health, suicide prevention, and acute care. She plans and coordinates meetings for the Wisconsin Hospice Veteran Partnership. Outside of work, she spends her time teaching and performing improv comedy and imploring her children to pick up their socks.