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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 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.

Cibelle Burger, MBA, is an accomplished and innovative marketing and communications leader with nearly 15 years of experience leading campaigns, strategic initiatives, and teams in healthcare, digital technology, and higher education. She has developed and executed successful campaigns for leading brands, including Loma Linda University Health, Beats by Dre, Apple Music, Sony Music, Bravo Network, Spotify, Goethe Institute, and the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Tourism. She earned her MBA and bachelor’s degree in Economics from California State University, Sacramento. In 2006, she received the prestigious Rotary International Foundation Scholar Award for a postgraduate fellowship at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pamela Kohlbry is a nurse, educator, and scholar who serves as Director of University Relations and Research for the CSU Shiley 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.

Jim Shaw is a healthcare industry executive with more than 20 years of experience as a senior leader at the national and global levels. From broad functional leadership perspectives of business development to marketing and business solutions ideation, he has a deep history of collaboration with U.S. healthcare organizations as they’ve addressed clinical, economic, and operational challenges. Following profound personal family experiences with both the lack of palliative care, and finally with the support of palliative care, he chose to leave the corporate world to help create broader access to the palliative care support that his loved ones mostly missed.