Virtual Office Hours Faculty

Virtual Office Hours faculty facilitate monthly, small-group virtual Q&A sessions on specific palliative care program design topics for CAPC members. Faculty for Office Hours are listed below.

David Buxton, MD, FAPA, DFAACAP, FAAHPM

CEO, Center for Palliative Psychiatry

Dave Carper, MDiv, BCC

Counseling Resource Officer
Bluegrass Care Navigators

Chin-Lin Ching, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Constance Dahlin, MSN, ANP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN

Consultant
Center to Advance Palliative Care

Katie DeMarco, DNP, MSHS, APN, ACHPN

Clinical Supervisor, Pain & Palliative Medicine Institute
Palliative Medicine APN
Hackensack Meri…

Andrew E. Esch, MD, MBA

Director, Palliative Care Program Development

Jeanna Ford, DNP, APRN, ACNS-BC, ACHPN, FPCN

Clinical Nurse Specialist
University of New Mexico Hospital System

Sarah Friebert, MD, FAAP, FAAHPM

Director and Founder
Haslinger Family Pediatric Palliative Care Center, Akron Children’s Hospital
Fac…

Tom Gualtieri-Reed, MBA

Partner
Spragens & Gualtieri-Reed

Rikki Hooper, FNP-C, MBA

Senior Director of Palliative Care
Four Seasons

Christopher Jones, MD, MBA, FAAHPM

Associate Professor and Director of Outpatient Palliative Care
Duke Health

Santiago Lopez, MD

Site Director for the Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Consult Service, North Shore University Ho…

Sonia Malhotra, MD, MS, FAAP

Internal Med, Peds, Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Director, Palliative Medicine & Supportive…

Sherika Newman, DO

Founder, Doctor in the Family
Atlanta, GA based company

Eberechi Nwogu-Onyemkpa, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Palliative Care, Washington University in St Louis

Michelle Owens, DO, FAAFP, FAAHPM

Director of Specialty Care
Central Health

Arika Patneaude, MHP, EMMHS, LICSW, APHSW-C

Director, Bioethics, Palliative Care and Journey Programs
Seattle Children's Hospital

Christopher Piromalli, DO, MPH

Integrated Palliative Medicine Consultant, Southcentral Foundation, Anchorage, AK
Associate Profess…

Norma Puente, ANP-C

CHI Baylor St. Luke's Hospital

Katrina Sandoval Nickels, MD

Assistant Professor, Palliative Care and Addiction Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medi…

Philip H. Santa-Emma, MD, FAAHPM

Medical Director, Palliative Care Services
Mount Carmel Health

Lynn Hill Spragens, MBA