Pediatric Palliative Care Social Worker
Riley Children’s Health
Alisha McGuire (she/her) is a Pediatric Palliative Care Social Worker and Grief Counselor with Riley Children’s Health in Indianapolis. She is a Certified Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Worker (APHSW-C) and NYU Zelda Foster Studies in Palliative and End of Life Care Leadership Fellow and Mentor. Alisha has a deep passion for working with pediatric patients and families adjusting to illness/diagnosis, anticipatory grief, and bereavement as a clinical social worker and researcher.
Alisha is involved in state and national organizations including a task force working to bring grief education to Indiana schools alongside Indiana children’s grief centers, a steering committee working to adapt materials for bereaved caregivers supporting surviving children following a child loss, as well as other projects in the realm of pediatric palliative care and bereavement. She is an active member of both SWHPN serving on the Board of Directors and AAHPM on the Pediatric Council. She was awarded the 2025 SWHPN Emerging Leader Award in recognition of her work in the field of bettering the care of seriously ill children and their families.
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