Dianne Gray

B.S.

Dianne Gray is the CEO of Hospice and Healthcare Communications. She works globally, creating and furthering advocacy, education, and/or mass media initiatives involving all aspects of end-of-life and palliative care. She is an internationally recognized speaker and an award winning writer/journalist, film producer and programming consultant. Her motivational keynote talks fuse research with inspiration to discuss the tough and tender topics involved in the provision of quality end of life and grief care. Topics include tech and research as it applies to palliative care, patient/family/clinician communications, spiritual and bereavement care and issues that thwart access and raise barriers to the provision of quality care in end of life. Always she focuses on patient engagement and patient-centric initiatives that build bridges between clinicians and families. In additional to being President of the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation, Dianne is also on the board of International Children's Palliative Care Network and is co-founder of the American Academy of Pediatrics SOHPM, Parent Advisory Group. Over the past twenty years, she has founded four non-profit organizations, each focused on improving life for seriously ill children and their families.