She began teaching nursing in Seattle in 1995, and is now developing interprofessional continuing education programs on aging, supportive and palliative care in the Division of Continuing Studies.at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her greatest passion in teaching is giving voice to the patient and seeing her students develop as compassionate, skilled clinicians, who embody the pallaitve care philosophies, principles and practices she has taught them. Her personal and professional lives have often overlapped, and she uses her experience to convey what’s important to patients and families in her writing. She writes a bi-monthly column on issues in palliative and end-of-life care in Nursing 2015.