Dr. Julie A. Guistwite is the owner of Ripple of Light Bereavement Resource Center, LLC. She is an Advanced Certified Thanatologist and Pennsylvania Licensed Social Worker with 20 years of professional experience in nursing home, home health, hospice, and funeral home settings. Dr. Guistwite also holds over a decade of higher education expertise and six years of virtual professional development presenter experience. Teaching experiences include authoring a palliative care course, instructing palliative, end-of-life, older adult, health policy, and family offerings. She developed the social work profession’s first scale to evaluate and refine practitioners’ expertise in death, dying, and bereavement care. Dr. Guistwite’s areas of expertise include older adults, thanatology, palliative care, families in the final stages of the lifecycle, and healthcare equity. She is deeply passionate about the well-being of persons/families navigating the final stages of life or a death experience and growing providers’ skills.