Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (PCLCs)

Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ are nine national centers of excellence providing customized training and a full year of mentoring to programs at every stage. The goal is to achieve program growth and sustainability and the best quality and highest value patient care. Lead faculty from the PCLCs are listed below.

Marie A. Bakitas, DNSc, CRNP, NP-C, AOCN, ACHPN, FAAN

Professor, Marie O’Koren Endowed Chair, Co-Director, UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care
F…

Leslie Blackhall, MD, MTS

Associate Professor of Medicine
Lead, Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (University of Virginia He…

Maria Torroella Carney, MD, FACP

Chief, Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine; Medical Director, Post-Acute Services
Lead, Pa…

Todd Coté, MD, HMDC, FAAFP, FAAHPM

Chief Medical Officer
Lead, Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (Bluegrass Care Navigators)

Egidio Del Fabbro, MD

Palliative Care Program Director
Lead, Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (Virginia Commonwealth Un…

Nancy Guinn, MD

Consultant, Center to Advance Palliative Care

Steven Z. Pantilat, MD

Professor of Medicine
Lead, Palliative Care Leadership Centers™ (University of California, San Franc…

Michael W. Rabow, MD

Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Philip H. Santa-Emma, MD, FAAHPM

Medical Director, Palliative Care Services
Mount Carmel Health