Oakland Faculty

APPEAL faculty have extensive training in palliative and end-of-life and have been certified to administer the APPEAL curriculum

Michelle Grant-Ervin, MD
Medical Director - Washington, DC
VITAS Innovative Healthcare Corporation

Bethsheba Johnson, A.P.N., B.C., Nurse Practitioner
Southside Health Association, Chicago, Ill.

Pastor Corey L. Kennard, MACM
St. John Health System, Detroit, Mich.

Richard Payne, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Divinity, Esther Colliflower Director
Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, Duke Divinity School, Durham, N.C.

Gloria Ramsey, JD, RN
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences