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Co-Director
Medical University of South Carolina
Constance Dahlin has a long career in hospice and palliative care in administration, program development, curricula development, interprofessional education, and clinical practice across all settings. Currently, she is faculty at University of Maryland Baltimore Masters and PhD Programs in Palliative Care. She is a consultant to the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), co-director of the Palliative APP Externship, and a palliative nurse practitioner at Salem Hospital. She serves as national faculty for ELNEC, the American Hospital Association Circle of Life Committee, the Massachusetts Serious Illness Coalition Nursing Taskforce, and the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer Steering Committee.
Ms. Dahlin authored several editions of the Palliative Nursing: Scope and Standards and Competencies for the Palliative and Hospice RN, and APRN. She wrote the Hospice and Palliative APRN Professional Practice Guide and A Primer of Reimbursement, Billing, and Coding: Essential Information for the Hospice and Palliative APRN. She is coeditor of the Oxford University Press Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing 1st and 2nd editions. She referenced the 2004 first education of the National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care and edited the 2009 and 2013 editions. She has authored peer reviewed articles, chapters and curricula and presented nationally and internationally.
Ms. Dahlin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, the 2005 Certified ACHPN APRN, a 2016 Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar, a 2018 AAHPM Visionary in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, the 2020 HPNA Distinguished Practice Award and the 2021 University of Maryland Baltimore Master of Science and Graduate Certificates in Palliative Care Teacher of the Year.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
2:30pm - 2:55pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose