Professor
University of Iowa College of Nursing
Harleah Graham Buck, PhD, RN, FPCN, FAHA, FAAN is the Sally Mathis Hartwig Professor in Gerontological Nursing at the University of Iowa where she is also the Director of the Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence. Dr. Buck has over 30 years’ experience in cardiovascular nursing along the trajectory from prevention to hospice care. In 2014 she was inducted as a Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing and in 2015 honored as a “Face of Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association”. She co-chaired the joint ANA/HPNA Palliative and Hospice Nursing Professional Issues Panel, served on the HPNA Research Advisory Council and is the 2021-2022 Immediate Past Chair of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly Scientific Program Committee. Her national and international contributions involve palliative care practice and research for older adults with heart failure. She stands in a unique position at the nexus of palliative, geriatric, and cardiovascular nursing - contributing to international palliative care essential practices; leading funded interprofessional initiatives to improve rural geriatric care using distance technology; conducting cutting edge dyadic symptom management research; authoring multiple impactful papers advocating earlier referral to palliative care for heart failure and presenting on palliative care topics in heart failure venues resulting in a national discussion of heart failure patients as a palliative care population. Dr. Buck’s contributions to nursing have been acknowledged with multiple honors and awards as well as invitations to present on palliative care topics in national webinars and scientific sessions. Her current research is funded by the National Institute on Aging to test an intervention on prolonged grief disorder and the National Institute on Nursing to examine the impact of mental health in both care partners on heart failure self-care.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose