Mary Carol (MC) Reeder, a board-certified Nurse Practitioner in Family & Palliative Medicine, is currently the Palliative Care Integrations Director for Scripps Health. She has held this position since 2017, when asked by the CMO to consider bringing structure to the Palliative Program at Scripps. In this role, she has opened three out-patient palliative clinics attached to each Scripps Campus. Prior to this position, MC was an ICU/open heart nurse, then transitioned into the Emergency Department, where she discovered her love of Emergency Medicine.