Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. She has been a teacher and practitioner for over 35 years, and continues to teach throughout the world. She is the author of Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality. Judy had the privilege of working with Florence Wald, a founding mother of the Hospice movement in the United States and former head of the Yale School of Nursing, on several conferences, workshops, and dialogues examining the role of spirituality in the care of the sick and dying. Ms. Lief has been a keynote speaker at the annual International Palliative Care Conference, held in Montreal as well as at the Zen Center for Contemplative Care conference at Garrison. In 2000-2001 Ms Lief served as pastoral counselor for the Maitri Day Health Center (an adult day health center for people with AIDS) in Yonkers, NY.