Stacy Remke, LICSW, APHSW-C, is an Instructor at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, teaching in areas of health, disabilities and aging, grief and loss, integrative behavioral health and inter-professional practice. Her clinical experience includes 27 years as a pediatric palliative care social worker, assisting children with life-threatening and chronic, complex conditions and their families in home and community-based settings, as well as in the hospital. She was a founding leader of the palliative care service at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of MN and Co-Investigator for the NCI funded curriculum development project, Education in Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Pediatrics. Stacy has contributed extensively to the multi-disciplinary knowledge base for the field of pediatric palliative care. She served on the Board for Social Work in Hospice and Palliative Care Network (SWHPN.org), belongs to the International Work Group on Death Dying and Bereavement, and is an advocate for the practice of social work in hospice and palliative care.