Up Coming Maine Hospice Council Events
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Save The Date!
2nd Statewide Palliative Care Conference
March 27th & 28th 2025
Thomas College, Waterville, Maine
Keynote Speakers:
Marian Grant, DNP, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN, RN
Marian Grant is a clinical advisor for the National Partnership for Healthcare and Hospice Innovations (NPHI), a policy consultant for the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) , the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), and the National Patient Advocacy Foundation, and a marketing consultant for the University of Washington’s MessageLab Serious Illness Messaging project, VitalTalk, and several hospice organizations. Dr. Grant maintains a clinical practice as a palliative care nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She is adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing. In 2014, Dr. Grant was selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow working on Capitol Hill and at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Dr. Grant has served on the board of the Carolinas Center and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association and speaks nationally and internationally on palliative care, messaging, and health policy. Before becoming a nurse, Dr. Grant had a career in marketing at Procter & Gamble and worked on the Max Factor and Cover Girl cosmetics brands there. She is the daughter of immigrants and refugees.
Torrie Fields, Founder and CEO at TFA Analytics
Torrie Fields is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at TFA Analytics and a strategic advisor to the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care. Fields is a consultant for health plans, purchasers, and academic centers evaluating the impact of care models and clinical workflows on achieving the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Triple Aim. She has led development of highly successful population health initiatives including benefit design, integrated case management, caregiver models, medical home and care model development, and policy and engagement efforts. She has also worked as an actuary and health services researcher in a variety of settings, including health plans, health delivery systems and local and federal health departments. She has extensive experience in health policy development and implementation, translating evidence-based research into legislative concepts and regulatory change. She was also a founding member of the California Advanced Illness Collaborative (CAIC), the CAPC MultiPayer Workgroup, and the BCBSA Serious Illness Working Group, all examples of payer-provider collaboratives focused on increasing access to high quality care for people with serious illness. She now leads the C-TAC Multipayer Workgroup, an evolution from these previous models.
Fields’ research experience has focused on economic outcomes and clinical performance in value-based payment models and health insurance access and affordability. An accomplished measurement developer, Fields is a member of the National Quality Forum Core Quality Measures Collaborative (CQMC), a member of the Rand Corporation Technical Expert Panel Medicare Quality Improvement Program and serves as an advisor to the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. From 2015-2019,Fields served as the chair of the Serious Illness Quality Alignment Hub, focusing on the intersection between accountability and quality measurement for people with serious illness. She has also served as co-investigator on a PCORI-funded randomized control trial focused on expanding access to home-based palliative care models through health insurance benefits (2017), mentor to NIA/NIH-funded Pathway to Independence Career Development Award evaluating the clinician perceptions of delivering home-based palliative as a covered benefit (2017), and AHRQ-funded Management practices and quality of care in cardiac units (2012).
Constance Dahlin, MSN, ANP- BC, ACHPN, FPCN, FAAN
Ms. Dahlin is Co-Director of the Palliative APRN Externship; Adjunct Associate Professor for the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Pharmacy, PhD in Palliative Care, Master of Science, and Graduate Certificate; consultant to the Center to Advance Palliative Care; and a Palliative Nurse Practitioner for Salem Hospital. She serves as national ELNEC faculty and is a member of the American Hospital Association Circle of Life Committee, Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer and Prevention Task Force, and the Massachusetts Serious Illness Nursing Task Force.
Ms. Dahlin is a past member of the Massachusetts Quality of Life and Palliative Care Advisory Committee and past Co-chair of the Palliative Care Workgroup for the Massachusetts Comprehensive Cancer and Prevention Control Network. Ms. Dahlin served on the National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership Post-Acute Care/Long Term Care Workgroup, and Clinician Workgroup. She was editor of National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care 2nd and 3rd editions and referenced the 1st edition. She wrote the Hospice and Palliative APRN Professional Practice and the Guide Billing and Coding Primer for the Hospice and Palliative APRN. She is co-editor for Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, now in its 2nd edition. She edited the Palliative Nursing Scope and Standards, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and authored the 6th edition. Ms. Dahlin is a Fellow of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and a 2016 recipient of a Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Leadership Scholar Award. She was named an American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine 2018 Visionary in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She has authored peer reviewed articles, chapters, and curricula as well as presented nationally and internationally.
