A Look Back...and Ahead: A Review and Reflection on This Year's Roundtables (MOAGT - September 2024)

JoAnne Reifsnyder PhD, MSN, MBA, RN, FAAN has held executive and leadership roles in hospice, hospice-related medication management and skilled nursing. She shifted her clinical practice from inpatient oncology to home hospice in the early 1980’s, beginning a career-long commitment to serious illness care. Dr. Reifsnyder has held numerous organizational and board leadership positions with a focus on palliative and end of life care. She developed one of the first palliative care minor concentrations at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and most recently developed leaders through nursing and interprofessional graduate programs at the University of Maryland. She has an active management consulting and executive coaching practice, through which she works with a range of organizations and individuals to develop and lead serious illness care, age-friendly care, and complex chronic illness management services. She is a frequent speaker on leadership topics, has authored many peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, and is a co-author and editor of three textbooks.

Erin O’Brien, MA, RN, is the Director of Clinical Affairs and Education for the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association, where she oversees the development of the Association's clinical resources and educational programs and is the staff liaison for the clinical affairs and education committees. Prior to her work at PALTmed, she was a research intervention nurse for the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she spent a decade educating and learning from frontline staff and leadership in nursing homes and assisted living communities throughout Maryland. Most of her intervention work has involved function focused care and managing BPSD.