Anna (Nina) Muriel

Anna C. “Nina” Muriel, MD, MPH, has been active in the care of palliative care patients and in the training of palliative care clinicians since 2002. Her work was initially in the care of adults with advanced cancer, to clinically address and do research about their concerns about parenting dependent children. She collaborated with palliative care clinicians and taught adult palliative care fellows in didactic talks about mental health issues, and in individual supervision.

Since 2008, Dr. Muriel's focus has been in pediatric oncology, caring for patients throughout the disease trajectory and into end of life, collaborating with the Pediatric Advanced Care Team, and teaching Pediatric Palliative Care Fellows in both didactic and reflective seminars.

As a Division Chief in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, she thinks about the overlap in the fields and implements strategies for collaboration and service delivery without redundancy.

She has written chapters and teaching modules in palliative care textbooks and online resources on topics of supporting children during parental end of life and bereavement, as well as the psychological care of children with life-limiting illness. She is co-author of "Raising an Emotionally Healthy Child when a Parent is Sick," co-editor of "Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology: A Textbook for Multidisciplinary Care," and a recent JPM paper on pediatric palliative care and child psychiatry.