Hospice Foundation of America's Sixteenth Annual, Living With Grief^® Teleconference, moderated by Frank Sesno, Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and Special Correspondent with CNN, will feature the following panel of experts:

Samira K. Beckwith, LCSW, CHE, serves as President and CEO of Hope Hospice and Community Services.  She was appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Pain Educators, where she works to raise the overall level of quality inpatient care.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Hospice Foundation.
Sandy Chen Stokes, RN, PHN, MSN, is a geriatric nurse specialist currently working as a public health nurse in El Dorado County, California.  She is the founder and Executive Director of the Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC), the only organization in the nation devoted to end-of-life issues for Chinese Americans.  She also served on the National Advisory Committee of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D., M.Div., is a Senior Consultant to Hospice Foundation of America and Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle, New York.
Wanda Henry-Jenkins, is a multifaceted human service and healthcare professional:  writer, bereavement counselor, educator and manager, minister, nurse, motivational and inspirational speaker.  She is certified in cultural competency.  Currently, Rev. Jenkins is the Manager of Bereavement Services at VITAS Innovative Services in the Chicago Northwest Program.  Rev. Jenkins' books include Hard Work:  A Guided Journal for Survivors of Murder Victims, 1999, and a Guided Workbook for Adolescent Motherless Daughters, 2005.
Rita Milburn-Dobson, M.A., RNC, FT, is a registered nurse with over 25 years of health care experience.  Personal experiences of parental loss led her to form Precious Gems Supportive Services (PGSS), a non-profit organization that provides bereavement support and counseling within vulnerable populations regardless of ability to pay.  She has received advanced training in CISM and school crisis response.  She is an author, church musician and frequent national lecturer of grief and loss related topics to professional staffs, churches and the community.
Richard Payne, MD, is Director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End-of-Life and an internationally known expert in the areas of pain relief, palliative medicine, oncology, and neurology.  He has co-edited two books:  Current Therapy of Pain, with Dr. Kathleen M. Foley and Assessment and Treatment of Cancer Pain with Drs. C. Stratton Hill and Richard B. Patt.  Currently Dr. Payne serves as the chair of the board of the Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa of NHPCO.
Paul C. Rosenblatt, PhD, has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota.  His recent books include:  Two in a Bed:  The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing; African American Grief (with Beverly R. Wallace), Parental Grief:  Narratives of Loss and Relationship; and Help Your Marriage Survive the Death of a Child.  Current research projects are studies involving how couple relationships are influenced by the death of a parent of one of the partners, and how people experience and understand intimacy in their closest relationship.
Carlos Sandoval-Cros, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice and an Episcopal Priest.  After graduating from medical school, he attended seminary, went to Quito, Ecuador as a medical missionary and was ordained a priest.  After 10 years at the University of Miami, he went into private practice, working mostly in geriatric psychiatry.  He also serves as a pastor of Saint Simon's Episcopal Church, a bicultural congregation in southwest Miami.