Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care
Meri Beckham Armour, MSN, RN
Meri Beckham Armour is the vice president for Cancer Services at the Ireland Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland, Ohio. She holds a master's degree in nursing and business administration from Case Western Reserve University. Ms. Armour has served in a variety of leadership roles related to cancer care over her 28-year career, including cancer programs at Johns Hopkins, Ohio State University, and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation prior to joining the Ireland Cancer Center. Her current role has her overseeing clinical operations at the Ireland Cancer Center and five community-based Ireland Cancer Centers.
Elizabeth Ford Pitorak MSN, APRN, CHPN
Elizabeth Ford Pitorak is a clinical nurse specialist and a certified hospice nurse who earned her masters degree in nursing with a teaching major from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In her present position as the director of the Hospice Institute of Hospice of the Western Reserve, she is responsible for planning and participating in external education and research regarding end-of-life care issues for both the professional and lay community. Nationally, she served for six years on the board of directors of the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association and was a past president. For more than 25 years, she has worked in the field of hospice and pain management, lectured to multidisciplinary groups, published papers in nursing, and traveled to Korea and Slovakia to consult and teach hospice/palliative care philosophy. In addition, she was the project director for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care grant, which was a partnership between the Ireland Cancer Center, a comprehensive cancer center and Hospice of the Western Reserve, a large community-based hospice created to develop an innovative model of palliative care.
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