About the Author

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Dr. Denney-Koelsch is a palliative care physician at University of Rochester who cares for families facing serious illnesses across the age spectrum. Her research and scholarship has focused on the care of families with prenatal diagnoses of life-limiting fetal conditions through pregnancy, labor and delivery, birth, and the neonatal period. She is author of 15 peer-reviewed publications, nearly all on this topic. She was also Co-Editor for the book Perinatal Palliative Care: A Clinical Guide, published by Springer in 2020. She co-authored five of the chapters in that book. She is a regular speaker in perinatal palliative care both at national meetings and as invited speaker for other institutions. She was the recipient of the Hastings Center-Cuniff Dixon Award for Early Career Physicians in 2018 for exemplary end-of-life care and was chosen as an Emerging Leader by the American Academic of Hospice and Palliative Medicine in 2021.