Dr. Ruthmarijke Smeding is a Senior Education Consultant at the Palliative Care Institute Liverpool(UK). She has been supporting the development of the learning, teaching, and research portfoliosfor the institute. She also serves there, at the moment, as Senior Education Fellow for theeducational program for end-of-life volunteering at acute hospitals. Further more, she works inGermany training professionals in evidence- and competency-based bereavement care. She livesin Switzerland, where she teaches at several colleges, in the use of both biographical working withpatients and families, and bereavement-oriented strategies in the context of palliative care, mainlyfor nurses.

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