Dorothy A. Votsmier Endowed Chair, Professor
Saint Louis University
Dr. Cara Wallace is the Votsmier Endowed Chair and a Professor in the Valentine School of Nursing at Saint Louis University (SLU). She also has a secondary appointment through SLU’s School of Social Work. Informed by years of social work practice in hospice and hospital systems, Dr. Wallace’s research focuses on issues related to end-of-life care within three related areas: barriers to care, quality of care, and educating students, professionals, and the general population to face issues surrounding death, illness, loss, and grief. She teaches courses related to end-of-life, aging, and healthcare. Dr. Wallace has been published or featured in USA Today, Health Affairs Forefront, St. Louis Public Radio, Geri-Pal, and The Excerpt. She has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications and is a co-editor of the 2024 Oxford University Press textbook, ‘Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care.’ She has received funding through the National Institutes of Health, and she is a 2020 recipient of the Cambia Health Foundation’s Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program which funds national, interprofessional leaders in palliative care. Dr. Wallace is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management and is the Co-Director of the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work’s Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Program. In 2020, she received the Social Work Hospice & Palliative Care Network’s Award for Excellence in Psychosocial Research.
RPD122 - Healthcare Utilization Patterns and Outcomes Post-Hospice Live Discharge
Thursday, March 5, 2026
2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose