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Jennifer Moore Ballentine knows the end-of-life world from a number of perspectives: as advocate, educator, consultant, and ethicist, and also as a hospice volunteer, hospice family member, hospice professional, and cancer survivor. As President of The Iris Project, Jennifer offers education, advocacy, and consulting services to private, professional, and community clients.
Download Jennifer's professional CV here. Jennifer has held positions as Vice President for Hospice Analytics, a national hospice and palliative care research organization; Executive Director of Life Quality Institute in Denver; and Director of Programs for the Colorado Center for Hospice and Palliative Care (now the Hospice & Palliative Care Association of the Rockies, or HPCAR). Currently residing in the San Diego, California area, she now offers consulting services and education to hospice and palliative care agencies, health systems, academic institutions, and advocacy groups across the country. At venues ranging from small community groups to national conferences, she has presented hundreds of programs on advance care planning, advance directives, caregiving, hospice and palliative care, healthcare public policy, palliative sedation, physician assisted-death, multicultural and multispiritual issues at the end of life, and other topics. She has served as an instructor for the California State University-San Marcos Institute for Palliative Care certificate program. She has provided background research, policy analysis, and expert testimony pertaining to legislative efforts related to end-of-life care. She has provided training in healthcare ethics committee formation and consultation for organizations including hospitals, nursing facilities and rehab centers, hospices, and emergency medical services. She earned a Master's degree in End-of-Life Studies from Regis University with graduate honors and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College. She also holds a Professional Advancement Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Her publications have appeared in the Senior Law Handbook of Colorado, the American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, Journal of Palliative Medicine, and Natural Transitions magazine. She authored several chapters on hospice and palliative care, advance care planning, and healthcare ethics in the Certified Senior Advisor's textbook, Working with Older Adults (2015), and coauthored A Guide to Organizational Ethics in Hospice Care (NHPCO, 2016) and the chapter, "Ethics Committees for Hospice: Beyond the Acute Care Model," in Hospice Ethics: Policy and Practice in Palliative Care, edited by Timothy W. Kirk and Bruce Jennings (Oxford University Press, 2014). She also serves as Peer Reviewer for the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Jennifer is a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's Palliative Care Council, and has served on their Ethics Advisory Council and Professional Education Committee; the Patient Quality of Life Coalition steering committee; and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Quality of Care for People with Serious Illness. She also served on Center for Improving Value in Health Care Palliative Care Taskforce. She served as Chair of the San Diego Coalition for Compassionate Care (2017) and as Chair of the Colorado Advance Directives Consortium (2010-2017). In the latter role, she had a major role in reshaping the Colorado Living Will, launching the Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment program, and revising the Colorado CPR Directive in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Working with the media, Jennifer was the commentator on voluntary cessation of eating and drinking for Karen van Vuuren's feature film Dying Wish, host of Dennis Streetar's video Advance Directives and End-of-Life Decisionmaking, a panelist on the Hospice Foundation of America's national telecast "Living with Grief: Ethical Issues at the End of Life," on-air participant in the And Thou Shalt Honor town hall on caregiving, and the Denver organizer of community forums for the landmark PBS series "On Our Own Terms: Bill Moyers on Dying." She has participated in several radio and television interviews on the ethics of physician-assisted death and participated in advocacy efforts opposing legalization of the practice. |
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