Vickie Leff, LCSW, APHSW-C
Vickie Leff, LCSW, APHSW-C, is a palliative care consultant and an adjunct instructor at the UNC School of Social Work, Chapel Hill. With over thirty-five years of clinical practice experience in oncology, palliative care, and hospice, Vickie presents on topics such as moral distress and resilience to national educational organizations and institutions. Recently she served as the executive director of SWHPN and prior to that as the executive director of the Advanced Palliative Care & Hospice Social Work Certification (APHSW) board, an organization which oversees the implementation and administration of this evidence-based certification. Vickie’s work has been published in Health Affairs, the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (JPSM), Journal of Palliative Medicine and other journals with a focus on moral distress and resilience. She is on the editorial board of Social Work in Health Care Journal and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Practical Bioethics. She is an editor of the book Mirrors & Windows: Reflections of the Journey in Serious Illness Practice and co-author of Helping Children Cope when Someone they Love has a Serious Illness.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Victoria Leff receives compensation as a palliative care consultant and trainer. She has employment relationships with UNC and CAP-C. Victoria Leff receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Victoria Leff is a member of the Association of Oncology Social Work. She serves as an associate editor with Social Work in Healthcare Journal.
