Craig is a palliative care nurse practitioner working in an multi-hospital, inpatient, consult-based practice in Eastern Pennsylvania. He is passionate about education and creating access through program development. He is a book author, educator, and TEDx speaker. During his 27 years of practice, he has worked in critical care, emergency medicine research, as an organ transplant coordinator, adjunct faculty, and colorectal surgical NP before finding his calling in palliative care. During his 13 years of palliative practice, he worked to develop the region’s first palliative telemedicine consult service to reach underserved rural patients. Outside of the hospital he has engaged in state and national lobbying relating to diabetes care and full practice authority for nurse practitioners. Craig balances his professional activities with family, a love of gardening, and the outdoors.