FACULTY & STAFF
Laurel Tropeano (laurel.tropeano@cuanschutz.edu) comes to University of Colorado School of Medicine by following a palliative care social work thread over the past 15 years. After receiving her BA in Comparative Religious studies at Vassar College and completing her MSW at New York University with a focus on advanced illness, Laurel enjoyed a year-long fellowship in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care within Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center prior to moving to Denver. In 2012, Laurel co-founded an independent palliative care social work agency that partnered with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado to provide care to their members with advanced illness. During this time, she also worked within the interdisciplinary inpatient palliative care team at Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital as well as the palliative care arm of The Denver Hospice. She served as president of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification board and enjoys digging into dynamics within palliative care teams. Laurel has two elementary-aged daughters, and she and her husband are recent pickleball fanatics.
Laurel Tropeano (laurel.tropeano@cuanschutz.edu) comes to University of Colorado School of Medicine by following a palliative care social work thread over the past 15 years. After receiving her BA in Comparative Religious studies at Vassar College and completing her MSW at New York University with a focus on advanced illness, Laurel enjoyed a year-long fellowship in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care within Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center prior to moving to Denver. In 2012, Laurel co-founded an independent palliative care social work agency that partnered with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado to provide care to their members with advanced illness. During this time, she also worked within the interdisciplinary inpatient palliative care team at Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital as well as the palliative care arm of The Denver Hospice. She served as president of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification board and enjoys digging into dynamics within palliative care teams. Laurel has two elementary-aged daughters, and she and her husband are recent pickleball fanatics.
Laurel Tropeano (laurel.tropeano@cuanschutz.edu) comes to University of Colorado School of Medicine by following a palliative care social work thread over the past 15 years. After receiving her BA in Comparative Religious studies at Vassar College and completing her MSW at New York University with a focus on advanced illness, Laurel enjoyed a year-long fellowship in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care within Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center prior to moving to Denver. In 2012, Laurel co-founded an independent palliative care social work agency that partnered with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado to provide care to their members with advanced illness. During this time, she also worked within the interdisciplinary inpatient palliative care team at Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital as well as the palliative care arm of The Denver Hospice. She served as president of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification board and enjoys digging into dynamics within palliative care teams. Laurel has two elementary-aged daughters, and she and her husband are recent pickleball fanatics.
Laurel Tropeano (laurel.tropeano@cuanschutz.edu) comes to University of Colorado School of Medicine by following a palliative care social work thread over the past 15 years. After receiving her BA in Comparative Religious studies at Vassar College and completing her MSW at New York University with a focus on advanced illness, Laurel enjoyed a year-long fellowship in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care within Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center prior to moving to Denver. In 2012, Laurel co-founded an independent palliative care social work agency that partnered with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado to provide care to their members with advanced illness. During this time, she also worked within the interdisciplinary inpatient palliative care team at Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital as well as the palliative care arm of The Denver Hospice. She served as president of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification board and enjoys digging into dynamics within palliative care teams. Laurel has two elementary-aged daughters, and she and her husband are recent pickleball fanatics.
Laurel Tropeano (laurel.tropeano@cuanschutz.edu) comes to University of Colorado School of Medicine by following a palliative care social work thread over the past 15 years. After receiving her BA in Comparative Religious studies at Vassar College and completing her MSW at New York University with a focus on advanced illness, Laurel enjoyed a year-long fellowship in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care within Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center prior to moving to Denver. In 2012, Laurel co-founded an independent palliative care social work agency that partnered with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado to provide care to their members with advanced illness. During this time, she also worked within the interdisciplinary inpatient palliative care team at Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital as well as the palliative care arm of The Denver Hospice. She served as president of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification board and enjoys digging into dynamics within palliative care teams. Laurel has two elementary-aged daughters, and she and her husband are recent pickleball fanatics.
Laurel Tropeano (laurel.tropeano@cuanschutz.edu) comes to University of Colorado School of Medicine by following a palliative care social work thread over the past 15 years. After receiving her BA in Comparative Religious studies at Vassar College and completing her MSW at New York University with a focus on advanced illness, Laurel enjoyed a year-long fellowship in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care within Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center prior to moving to Denver. In 2012, Laurel co-founded an independent palliative care social work agency that partnered with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado to provide care to their members with advanced illness. During this time, she also worked within the interdisciplinary inpatient palliative care team at Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital as well as the palliative care arm of The Denver Hospice. She served as president of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification board and enjoys digging into dynamics within palliative care teams. Laurel has two elementary-aged daughters, and she and her husband are recent pickleball fanatics.
Laurel Tropeano (laurel.tropeano@cuanschutz.edu) comes to University of Colorado School of Medicine by following a palliative care social work thread over the past 15 years. After receiving her BA in Comparative Religious studies at Vassar College and completing her MSW at New York University with a focus on advanced illness, Laurel enjoyed a year-long fellowship in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care within Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center prior to moving to Denver. In 2012, Laurel co-founded an independent palliative care social work agency that partnered with Kaiser Permanente of Colorado to provide care to their members with advanced illness. During this time, she also worked within the interdisciplinary inpatient palliative care team at Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital as well as the palliative care arm of The Denver Hospice. She served as president of the Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certification board and enjoys digging into dynamics within palliative care teams. Laurel has two elementary-aged daughters, and she and her husband are recent pickleball fanatics.
Faculty Affiliations
Medicine
- Ashley Dixon Anderson MD
- Stacy Fischer, MD
- Cari Levy, MD, PhD
- Meret Marangola, DO
- Dan Matlock, MD
- Colleen McIlvennan, MD
- Nellie O'Connor, MD
- Maurice (Scotty) Scott, MD
- Jen Seibert, MD
- Christina Vaughan, MD
- Jeanie Youngwerth, MD
Nursing
- Stacy Anderson, DNP
- Harri Brackett, RN, MS, ACHPN
- Heather Coats, PhD, MS, APRN-BC
- Ami De Rama, DNP
Physician Assistant
- Amber Maniates, PA-C
Social Work
- Melissa C Palmer, JD LCSW ACHP-SW APHSW-C
Spiritual Care
- Kelly Arora, PhD
- Jana Miner, MDiv
Psychology
- Elissa Kolva, PhD
Ethics
- Anne Dondapati Allen, PhD, MDiv
Librarian
- Kristen DeSanto, MSLS, MS, RD, AHIP
Support Staff
Program Manager
- Ashley Ertmer
Program Coordinator
- Bailee Bannon Murray
Distance Degrees and Programs
- Graduate School
Medicine
- Jacob Green
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Partners
The CU Anschutz Medical Campus houses a network of collaborative faculty and staff who are housed in one or more schools, colleges, or facilities. Below is a list of our closest university partners.
- College of Nursing
- Center for Advancing Professional Excellence (CAPE)
- Distance Degrees and Programs
- Graduate School
- School of Medicine
- School of Pharmacy
External Affiliations
Our program faculty are members of a vast network of health professionals. Below is a list of networks and organizations in which our faculty belong. Our program is often represented at the conferences and other organized events hosted by these organizations.
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM)
- American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)
- American Pharmacist Association (APhA)
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
- Association of Death Education Counseling (ADEC)
- Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA)
- Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
- Colorado Academy of Family Physicians
- Health Care Chaplaincy Network
- Home Care Association of Colorado
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
- Social Work Hospice and Palliative Care Network
- The Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine