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Arden O’Donnell received her MSW from Smith College and her MPH from Boston University. Her deep commitment to palliative care began with her work with HIV\/AIDS patients in Zimbabwe and Lesotho. She began her professional career in social work as a Pediatric Palliative Care (PACT) Fellow at Children’s Hospital, then working on the Dana Farber-Brigham and Women’s Palliative Care Service. She recently ran a clinical trial with Akshay Desai, MD, MPH entitled, “A Focused Palliative Care Intervention for Recently Hospitalized High-Risk Patients with Heart Failure.” Arden currently teaches at the Smith College School for Social Work. She also founded the non-profit, Coalition for Courage, which provides health, education, and welfare services for children in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially those affected by HIV.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13428,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13428"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79761,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/35205\/revisions\/79761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}