Christine has a degree in Health Care Administration from Stonehill College, and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and University of Massachusetts-Boston. She is a board certified Adult-Geriatric Nurse Practitioner and received specialty training through the Mass General Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship program. She joined the Mass General Division of Palliative Care & Geriatric Medicine in 2020 as a nurse practitioner on the Adult Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Service and previously worked for 25 years as a staff nurse and ARN in the Mass General Medical Intensive Care Unit. Christine has a particular interest in the early integration of palliative care for patients with critical illness and advanced heart disease.