Laurel Tropeano

Laurel Tropeano ([email protected]) 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.