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Arden ODonnell, MPH, LICSW, APHSW-C (she/her/hers)

Doctoral Student
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Arden O'Donnell, MPH, MSW, LICSW APHSW-C is a Palliative Social Worker currently getting her Ph.D. Boston University and working at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her dissertation is focused on the social worker’s role in cultivating prognostic awareness with patients and families coping with serious illnesses. Arden’s long-time commitment to Palliative Care began with a focus on International Public Health working with HIV/AIDS patients in Zimbabwe and Lesotho. She began her professional career in Social Work as a Pediatric Palliative Care (PACT) Fellow at Children's Hospital and then became a member of the Dana Farber-Brigham and Women's Palliative Care Service. She ran a clinical trial "A Focused Palliative Care Intervention for Recently Hospitalized High-Risk Patients with Heart Failure " which assessed the impact of a standardized, social-worker-led, longitudinal palliative care intervention on the alignment of patient and physician understanding of prognosis and goals of care. Arden is a dedicated teacher, she is an adjunct professor at Smith College School for Social Work and Boston University She also teaches communication and palliative care skills to inter-professional clinicians, residents, and medical students as a faculty member of the Harvard-based Palliative Care Education Practice (PCEP) Program and is Vital Talk trained facilitator. Arden is personally dedicated to helping children who have experienced the loss of a parent. She founded Coalition for Courage a non-profit focused on supporting the education of orphans in Zimbabwe. Additionally, she and her partner are dedicated foster and adoptive parents.

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