G. Jay Westbrook is a multiple award-winning clinician, author and speaker, and is clinical director of Compassionate Journey—an end-of-life clinical and education service.

For over a quarter century, Jay has worked at the bedside with the dying, in hospital-based palliative care, hospital-based pain management, community-based hospice and prison hospice. He is a visiting faculty scholar at Harvard Medical School, winner of the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative Award, and recipient of the Pierre Salmon Award for Clinical Excellence in Care of the Dying.

Mr. Westbrook has a Master of Science in Gerontology, is a certified grief recovery specialist, a credentialed spiritual counselor, registered nurse, and a certified hospice and palliative nurse.