Dr. Vidette Todaro-Franceschi comes to CSI from a 20 year tenure at Hunter College where she was a full professor and coordinator of the Clinical Nurse Leader graduate program. She received her AAS, and BS from CSI, MS from Hunter and PhD from NYU. She has done seminal work on energy, bereavement, end of life and professional quality of life and is the author of 2 books, multiple articles and chapter contributions and is a Fellow in Thanatology conferred by the Association for Death Education and Counseling. She is most known for her work on end of life and compassion fatigue.