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Betty Ferrell, PhD, CHPN, FAAN, FPCN

Betty Ferrell, PhD, CHPN, FAAN, FPCN聽has been in nursing for 46 years and has focused her clinical expertise and research in pain management, quality of life, and palliative care. Dr. Ferrell is the Director of Nursing Research & Education and a Professor at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and she more than 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals and texts. She is Principal Investigator of the 鈥淓nd-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)鈥� project. She directs several other funded projects related to palliative care in cancer centers and Quality of Life (QoL) issues. Dr. Ferrell was Co-Chairperson of the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care. Dr. Ferrell completed a Masters degree in Theology, Ethics and Culture from Claremont Graduate University in 2007.

She has authored eleven books including the聽Oxford Textbook of Palliative Nursing聽(5th Edition, 2019) published by Oxford University Press. She is co-author of the text,聽The Nature of Suffering and the Goals聽of Nursing聽published by Oxford University Press (2nd Ed, 2023) and聽Making Health Care Whole:聽Integrating Spirituality into Patient Care聽(Templeton Press, 2010).

In 2013, Dr. Ferrell was named one of the 30 Visionaries in the field by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. In 2019 she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2021, Dr. Ferrell received the Oncology Nursing Society Lifetime Achievement Award and she was inducted as a 鈥淟iving Legend鈥� by the American Academy of Nursing.