Joy Goebel

Joy R. Goebel RN, PhD, FPCN, is an accomplished nurse educator and researcher whose interests in palliative care (PC) include studying diverse populations of patients from neonates to the elderly. She has published 20 manuscripts in top tier palliative care journals and presented internationally on palliative care topics. She has been instrumental in developing an informatics tool for the Veterans Administration project (the Palliative Care-National Clinical Template) to standardize and improve palliative care for veterans across the nation. Dr. Goebel teaches advanced evidence-based research application in the CSU Fullerton, Long Beach, and Los Angeles DNP Consortium.  She enjoys mentoring undergraduate and graduate nursing students on palliative care research and clinical projects. Personally, she enjoys hiking sections of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and has hiked more than 1,000 miles of the trail.