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Jennifer Moore Ballentine, MA, is a long-time national palliative care advocate and educator who has served as Executive Director for the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care since 2017. In the past 20 years, she has published numerous articles on palliative and end-of-life care in peer-reviewed and trade journals. She has delivered more than 600 workshops, Grand Rounds, webinars, and in-service training programs; developed, planned, and executed 14 local, state, and national conferences; and created five comprehensive multi-part educational programs. She is the former Executive Director of the Life Quality Institute and has a master’s degree in End-of-Life Studies from Regis University.

Pamela Kohlbry is a nurse, educator, and scholar who serves as Director of University Relations and Research for the CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care, where she leads the annual National Symposium for Academic Palliative Care Education and Research and fosters campus partnerships with faculty across CSU campuses. She is a founding faculty member of the CSU San Marcos School (CSUSM) of Nursing and has conducted research locally and internationally on quality of life, health promotion, application of technology, chronic illness, service learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has served as Vice-Chair of the CSUSM Faculty Senate and as Interim Director of the CSUSM School of Nursing.