Moving up without Meltdowns: Interdisciplinary Career Pathways in Hospice and Palliative Leadership

December 4, 2025

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

Intraprofessionals- Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers (NPs, PAs), Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Chaplains, Quality/Operations Leaders, Researchers, Educators, Fellows and Early Career Professionals

Learning Outcomes

  1. Differentiate and integrate key strategies and lessons learned from interdisciplinary leaders in hospice and palliative care to inform approaches for professional advancement.
  2. Apply and adapt insights from discipline- and setting-specific breakout discussions to design practical approaches for leadership growth and career promotion.
  3. Synthesize and translate peer dialogue and shared experiences into actionable plans for advancing leadership within participants’ own practice settings.
Activity summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.75 ABIM MOC
  • 3.75 CME (physician only)
  • 3.75 Participation
Activity Published: 
10/15/2025
Activity Expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
12/04/2025 - 12:00pm CST
Event ends: 
12/04/2025 - 4:00pm CST
Member cost:
$199.00
List Price:
$279.00
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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
Niharika Ganta, MD MPH FAAHPM
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 Manager Workforce Programmings
Emily Geary, BA Manager Education

 

Continuing Medical Education (CME)
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion includes attesting to meaningful activity participation and completion/submission of activity evaluation within the time frame designated.

Evaluation period closes December 31, 2025 at 11:59pm PT for claiming CME credit.

Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Recognition Statement
Through the American Board of Medical Specialties (“ABMS”) ongoing commitment to increase access to practice relevant Continuing Certification Activities through the ABMS Continuing Certification Directory, this activity applies towards general CME requirements for the following ABMS Member Boards:

  • Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.
  • Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.

It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM or ABP MOC credit. By submitting your evaluation, you grant AAHPM permission to submit completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting respective BOARD MOC program credit or points as applicable. De-identified aggregated data from the evaluation may be used for research and/or publication and will conform to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection and analysis where indicated. 

Evaluation period closes December 31, 2025 at 11:59pm PT for claiming MOC credit.

Available Credit

  • 3.75 ABIM MOC
  • 3.75 CME (physician only)
  • 3.75 Participation

Price

Member cost:
$199.00
List Price:
$279.00
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