Featured Plenary Sessions

We are excited to share the 2021 plenary speakers for the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care, available from anywhere. These sessions are designed to stimulate new thinking and conversation.

Wendy Sue Swanson, MD MBE FAAP

The Auspicious Opportunity of Digital Innovation

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Wendy Sue Swanson, MD MBE FAAP is a board-certified pediatrician and a leading innovator in digital health, innovation, and prevention. Her social media channels have translated science and medical information to millions around the world. Quoted widely in the media on pediatrics, health and innovation, she serves on the Board of Advisors for Parents Magazine and is a platinum fellow and advisor to the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. 

Drawing on her experiences as Chief of Digital Innovation for Seattle Children’s Hospital, as well as her broader observations now working with prevention focused start-ups, and her long-standing work in the media, Dr. Swanson shows how technology can create efficient communication solutions while enhancing patient care, caregiver, and family experience.

Follow her @WendySueSwanson; learn more at WendySueSwanson.com.

Debra Jarvis, MDiv BBC

Everybody Matters: What Last Year Taught Us For This Year

Friday, February 19, 2021

Debra Jarvis, MA MDiv practices as a hospice chaplain and is known as the irreverent reverend with something to say. She is the author of It’s Not About the Hair: and Other Certainties of Life & Cancer and hosts and produces the soon-to-be-released podcast The Final Say: Conversations with People Facing Death. As writer-in-residence for Seattle’s University United Church of Christ, she regularly posts for their blog The Comma.

Watch her TedMed Talk and learn more at DebraJarvis.com.