Director of Patient and Caregiver Education
UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care
Judith Redwing Keyssar, RN has traversed an amazing 35+ year journey in the healing arts/healthcare. She has experience in Oncology, Critical Care, Hospice and Palliative Care. Redwing is an educator, midwife to the dying, author, poet, ceremonialist, national presenter and frequent contributor to public issues about Palliative Care.
Redwing is currently the Director of Education at the MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care at UCSF/Mt. Zion. Her professional career includes being the Clinical Director at Zen Hospice Project and the Director of Palliative Care and Nursing at Jewish Family and Children’s Services from 2007-2018. She is a founder and adjunct faculty member of the California State University Shiley/Haynes Institute of Palliative Care. Redwing is the author of an award-winning book, “Last Acts of Kindness; Lessons for the Living from the Bedsides of the Dying” and the recipient of the prestigious AAHPM Humanities Award. (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine)
Her passion for using poetry as a healing modality has led to the development of a successful international program in Poetic Medicine, through her work at the UCSF MERI Center.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose