Dr. Niamh van Meines is a board-certified palliative care nurse practitioner with a PhD in Nursing Education.

Author of Hospice Scales, Terms, Tools & Measurements and Comforting Touch in Dementia and End of Life Care.

Founder of the Madrone Care Network. a community-based palliative care program in the San Francisco Bay Area to manage the care of seriously ill people in the community. Executive director of the Madrone Foundation