Advancing Advance Care Planning in Colorado
David Koets, MD, is Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer of The Denver Hospice.  He co-founded and chairs the Colorado Advance Directives Consortium. He is trained in Internal Medicine with 19 years experience in Geriatrics, and is a frequent speaker on hospice and palliative care, advance care planning, and ethics in quality care. He is a member of the American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, American Medical Association, American Medical Directors Association, Colorado Medical Directors Association, and Colorado Center for Hospice & Palliative Care.  He also chairs the Community Healthcare Ethics Committee. Dr. Koets earned his BA from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and his MD from University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center.

Contact: dkoetsmd@q.com

Co-Chair Jennifer Ballentine, MA, is Executive Director of Life Quality Institute and President of The Iris Project, an end-of-life consulting and education initiative. Formerly, she was Director of Programs for the Colorado Center for Hospice & Palliative Care and has participated in many collaborative projects with state and national organizations around end-of-life decision making, advance care planning, and healthcare ethics. She is a member of the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization Education Committee, the Denver Community Bioethics Committee, and board member for the Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum. Jennifer holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MA in end-of-life studies from Regis University.

Contact: jennifer@irisproject.net
Current Roster of CADC members

Fred Abrams, MD
Director, Clinical Ethics Consultation Group

Jennifer Allen
Chair, Rose Hospital Ethics Committee

A. Lee Anneberg, MD
LTC Medical Director; COPIC Board of Directors (emeritus); President, Colorado Medical Directors Association

Jennifer Ballentine, MA
Executive Director, Life Quality Institute; President, The Iris Project; Denver Community Bioethics Committee

Mary Crumbaker, JD
Vice President, Corporate Responsibility and Chief Compliance Officer for Exempla Healthcare

Lisa DiSalvo
VP Strategy & Business Development, Enclara Health, LLC

Edie Busam
Aponte & Busam Public Affairs Consultants

Fred Feinsod, MD, CMD
Past-President, Colorado Medical Directors Association; LTC Medical Director; El Paso and Douglas Counties, Pinõn Community Ethics Committees

Gail Finley
Vice-President, Policy Analysis and Strategic Planning, Colorado Hospital Association

Terry Fowler, RN, MAR, JD
Corporate Compliance Manager, Evercare Hospice & Palliative Care

Susan Fox, JD, MA
Attorney

Greg Gahm, MD
Medical Director, Evercare/UHC-Ovations, LTC Medical Director, Geriatrician

Carl Glatstein, JD
Elder Law Attorney, Glatstein & O’Brien, LLP

David Griffith, JD
Magistrate, (ret); University of Denver College of Law, Elder Law Institute; President-emeritus, Continuing Legal Education Colorado

Susan Hanson, BSW
Chair, Colorado Health Care Association Social Services Committee; Resident Services Director, Rowan Community

Daniel Johnson, MD, FAAHPM
Director, Life Quality Institute;
Regional Department Chief, Palliative Care, Kaiser Permanente-Colorado

Daniel Kapsak, JD, M.Div
Attorney

Cordt Kassner, PhD
Hospice Analytics, LLC

Michael Kirtland, JD, LLM, CELA
Chair, Colorado Bar Association, Advanced Directives Joint Task Force; Vice-Chair, Elder Law Group; Trust and Estates Section Representative to Colorado Bar Association Ethics Committee

David Koets, MD
Medical Director & Chief Medical Officer, The Denver Hospice

Jean Kutner, MD, MSPH, FAAHPM
Director, Palliative Care Consult Service UCDHSC; Director, Population-based Palliative Care Research Network (PoPCRN); Associate Professor and Division Head, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Randy Kuykendall, MLS, NREMT-P
Chief, Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Division, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Ayo Labode
DRCOG Ombudsman

Mark Levine, MD, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Denver Regional Office, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Cari Levy, MD, PhD, CMD
Past-President, Colorado Medical Directors Association; LTC Medical Director; Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCH and Denver VA Hospital; Board President, Colorado Center for Hospice & Palliative Care

Paula Mattison, RN
Director of Clinical and Quality Services, Colorado Health Care Association

Peter Mayerson, MD
Past President, Board of Compassion and Choices of Colorado
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Jim Miles, JD
Vice-chair, Long-term Care Practice Group, American Health Lawyers Association, Miles & Peters, PC

Kennan Moore, MSW
Palliative Care Specialist, Kaiser Permanente

Jenny Nate, MSW
Center to Improve Value in Health Care

Jennifer Prinz, RN, BSN, CPTC, CTBS, MPH
Chief Operating Officer, Donor Alliance

Michelle Reese, JD
Deputy Chief, Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Section, Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment


David Ross , DO, FACEP
President, Colorado Chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians

Lori Rothwell

Senior Vice President for Compliance and Quality Initiatives- Total Long-Term Care

Cheryl Siefert, MNM
Executive Director, Parkinson's Association

Mary Anne Smith, RN, BSN, PCCN-CMC
Clinical Educator, Graduate Student

Janet Snipes, NHA
President, Colorado Health Care Association;  Nursing Home Administrator-Holly Heights Nursing Home

Sara Sunleaf, RN
Chair, Nurse Executive Committee, Colorado Health Care Association; Director of Nursing, St. Andrews Village

Sandra Szabo, RHIT
Director, Health Information; HIPAA Privacy Liaison/Security Officer; State Veterans Home – Florence

Stephen Telatnik, MD
Palliatist, Pikes Peak Palliative Care; El Paso Co. Medical Society Ethics Committee; Chair, El Paso Co. Medical Society Developmentally Disabled Committee; Pikes Peak Forum for Healthcare

Sharon Thorson
Board Chair, Guardianship Alliance of Colorado; Ombudsman-DRCOG

Christopher Unrein, DO, FACP, CMD 
Physician/Geriatrician; Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine-UCDHSC; Medical Director, Hospice of Saint John

Ginny Vravick, RN
Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist, Centura-Penrose/Saint Francis Hospitals

Bob Wham, JD & Dottie Wham
Senators (ret.), Colorado State Senate

Christine Zanoni, BSBA
Director, Performance Improvement; Co-chair Ethics Committee, The Denver Hospice


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