Joy Berger, DMA, FT, BCC, MT-BC

Editor in Chief

Dr. Joy Berger brings 30 years of hospice, palliative, and grief care strategic leadership and direct patient care. Whatever the role or context, Joy devotedly serves as a catalyst for innovative improvements; a connector among diverse disciplines, roles, ages, cultures, and opinions; and a creative soul who loves to communicate our deeply personal living and dying purposes through both today's technologies and timeless arts. 

Many of our readers and Joy have teamed together through previous intersecting roles: Joy as Executive Director for the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC); founder, author, producer, and publisher of Composing Life Out Loss Caregiver Video Libraries; Special Projects for National Hospice Analytics; Director of Education for the Hospice Education Network (Weatherbee Resources, acquired by Relias); Chair of NHPCO's Research / Academics / Education Professional Section; and Director of Hospice Institute (Louisville, KY). Together, we build on those foundations for today's needs and unknown challenges ahead through Hospice & Palliative Care Today.

For her direct patient care, Joy was honored with the National Heart of Hospice Psychosocial / Spiritual Care Award by the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals. She authored Music of the Soul - Composing Life Out of Loss in Routledge's internationally acclaimed Series in Death, Dying and Bereavement, with its series editor Robert A. Neimeyer. Core to her sense of excellence and artistry in whatever she undertakes, Joy's first career was a classical pianist. You can experience more of her story into hospice and palliative care through the Preface of her book, or a recording/photo montage from her earlier performance of Debussy's Reflections in the Water.

Email: jberger@HospicePalliativeCareToday.com
Phone: 502.593.3916 (Eastern Time Zone, Louisville, KY)
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