Founder and Consultant
Collaborative Caring
Shirley Otis-Green is the founder of Collaborative Caring, a consulting practice dedicated to enhancing excellence in the delivery of contextualized care to more equitably address the symptoms and stress of serious illness. Her education, research and consultation efforts focus on quality of life, interprofessional leadership and creating meaningful organizational change. As Principal Investigator on studies with over $3.5 million in external funding, her work has been recognized with numerous awards and disseminated through more than 100 publications and 500 professional presentations. She is a Co-Investigator and Co-Project Director of the National Cancer Institute-funded educational grant, ESPEC Oncology: Transforming Psychosocial and Palliative Cancer Care, a national workforce initiative designed to enhance the leadership and clinical quality improvement skills of oncology social workers.
Shirley is a National Association of Social Workers Pioneer, California Health Care Foundation Leadership Fellow and a Distinguished Social Work Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. She was among the first to receive a Master of Arts in Health Research - Palliative Care from Lancaster University in Great Britain, and is co-editor of the The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work (Second Edition).
A Decade of Interactive Educational Exchange: Impacting Interprofessional Palliative Care Education
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:45am - 12:10pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose