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Moving up without Meltdowns: Interdisciplinary Career Pathways in Hospice and Palliative Leadership
This 4-hour live virtual mini-conference brings together hospice and palliative care professionals across disciplines and care settings to explore actionable pathways to leadership and promotion. Participants will hear from interdisciplinary leaders in academic palliative care, community-based palliative care, and community-based hospice as they share their professional journeys, insights into institutional advancement structures, and lessons learned.
Following panel presentations, participants will engage in breakout discussions tailored to their discipline and setting, fostering peer dialogue, mentorship, and practical strategy-building. The session concludes with a collaborative report-out and synthesis of key themes and actionable takeaways.
Target Audience
Hospice and palliative care professionals at all career stages, including:
- Physicians
- Advanced Practice Providers (NPs, PAs)
- Registered Nurses
- Social Workers
- Chaplains
- Quality/Operations Leaders
- Researchers
- Educators
- Fellows and Early Career Professionals
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Compare advancement and promotion pathways across academic, community hospice, and community-based palliative care settings.
- Apply role-relevant strategies for professional growth (e.g., mentorship, academic promotion planning, leadership engagement).
- Evaluate current organizational structures related to promotion and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary colleagues to co-create strategies for equitable and inclusive leadership advancement.
- Develop a personal or team-based action plan for career advancement aligned with goals and organizational mission.
Disclosures
AAHPM endorses the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for disclosure and commercial support and endeavors to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited products or programs. All who are in a position to control or influence the content of an educational activity must disclose any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.*Disclosure documents were reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and, if identified, were resolved prior to confirmation of participation. Only those who had no conflict of interest or who agreed to an identified resolution process prior to their participation were involved in this activity.
All editors, faculty and staff have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
*An ineligible company is defined as any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.
Faculty
Heidi Young, MD FAAHPM
Randy Schisler, MD MBA FAAHPM
Laura Taylor, MD MSc
Corey Kennard, MACM CPXP
Rex Paulino, MD AGSF
Adam Marks, MD MPH FAAHPM
Karen Bullock, PhD LICSW FGSA APHSW-C
Simone Rinaldi, MSN ANP-BC ACHPN
Perihan El-Shanawany, MD MBA FAAHPM HEC-C
Staff
Laura Witt, MS-HSM
Emily Geary, BA
This webinar is for informational purposes only as a non-accredited learning resource. CME is not offered with this activity.