Tools to Promote Your Palliative Care Program

Life Quality Institute welcomes you to use the following presenters photographs and bio's to promote any presentations Life Quality Institute is offering in conjunction with your organization.

Jennifer Ballentine, MA
Executive Director
Jennifer is an expert on the end of life in Colorado. She has presented hundreds of programs to the public and professionals locally and at national conferences on advance care planning, advance directives, caregiving, hospice and palliative care, healthcare public policy, healthcare ethics, palliative sedation, multicultural and multispiritual issues at the end of life, and other topics. 

Jennifer earned a Master’s degree in End-of-Life Studies from Regis University with graduate honors and Bachelor’s from Oberlin College. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum, and the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization Professional Education Committee. She has published in the Senior Law Handbook of Colorado, and the American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, the Colorado Episcopalian, and elsewhere. She previously served as Director of Programs for the Colorado Center for Hospice and Palliative Care and as Research Program Strategist for The Denver Hospice. 

Daniel C. Johnson, MD, FAAHPM
Director

Dr. Daniel Johnson is the National Clinical Lead for Palliative Care with Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute. He is also Department Chief of Palliative Care at Kaiser Permanente-Colorado and is a practicing physician on the Palliative Care Consult Services at Exempla St. Joseph Hospital (Denver) and Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center (Lafayette). Additionally, he serves as the Director of the Life Quality Institute – an organization that has provided over 130,000 hours of palliative care education for Colorado’s health professionals and communities. Dr. Johnson part of the clinical faculty at the University of Colorado and a Faculty Associate for the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

Dr. Johnson received his bachelor’s degree from the Colorado School of Mines and worked as a geophysicist for 8 years prior to completing medical school and residency training at the University of Colorado. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Dr. Johnson is a Soros Faculty Scholar for the Project on Death in America, and a graduate of the Harvard Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice. In addition to multiple teaching and leadership awards, he is consistently recognized by his physician peers as a 5280 Magazine “Top Doctor” in Hospice and Palliative Medicine (2008-2010). Dr. Johnson’s publications and research interests include palliative care education, end-of-life care systems development, and fatigue and symptom management in patients with advanced and terminal illness.

Jane W. Barton, MTS, MASM
Transformational Educator
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From 2005 to 2011, Jane served as the community educator and Director of Education for the Life Quality Institute. Jane continues to present workshops, seminars, and speeches in a variety of venues on a contract basis with LQI. Her program topic include caregiving, grief and bereavement, spirituality and health, change and transition, moral distress, and attitudes regarding death and dying. Jane began her career in hospice and palliative care as a chaplain intern and has experience as a chaplain, bereavement facilitator, and spiritual director. Jane attended the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, where she completed two Master’s degrees: theological studies and specialized ministry (pastoral care).