Director of Programs
The Peaceful Presence Project
Erin Collins MNE,RN, CHPN is a Certified Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse with 18 years of experience in inpatient oncology and home-based hospice and palliative care. Erin is a 2022 Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar, and a 2025 Cuniff-Dixon Foundation Nursing Award recipient.
She co-founded a non-profit organization, The Peaceful Presence Project, after seeing that many patients came to hospice afraid of and in denial of death and therefore largely unprepared for it. She offers education, end-of-life planning and presence for options at the end of life, including Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking and Medical Aid in Dying. She is committed to improving grief and death literacy by educating the community at all levels, including individuals, families, students and clinicians in preparing for and talking about serious and terminal illness with compassion and tenderness.
P12 Navigating Complex Choices: Hot Topics in Palliative Care Ethics and Practice
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
1:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose