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CEO Coalition for Compassionate Care of California Twitter: @irisprojectUS
Jennifer Moore Ballentine is CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California. She is an educator, consultant, and advocate with more than 20 years’ experience and expertise in palliative care and hospice, adult education, healthcare ethics and policy. She is the former Executive Director of the California State University Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care and previously held leadership roles for Life Quality Institute, The Denver Hospice, and the Colorado Center for Hospice and Palliative Care. Ms. Ballentine serves on the Palliative Care Council for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization; the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Roundtable on Quality Care for People With Serious Illness; the Palliative Care Advisory Panel for the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California; and the Advisory Board for the California Coalition for Compassionate Care. She has delivered hundreds of in-services, Grand Rounds, professional trainings and state and national workshops as well as keynote and plenary presentations at professional and academic conferences in the field of palliative care. Ms. Ballentine has authored or coauthored articles for peer-reviewed and trade journals and professional book chapters, serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Palliative Medicine, and has provided expertise in legislative hearings, media outlets, and research projects. She earned a Master’s degree in End-of-Life Studies at Regis University (with graduate honors), a Professional Advancement Certificate in Gerontology from the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, and a Bachelor’s degree at Oberlin College (Phi Beta Kappa).