Deanna Flores Cochran

Advocate • Author • Educator

End-of-life advocate and author Deanna Flores Cochran, RN, is a hospice nurse, educator, and one of the earliest voices in the end-of-life doula movement. Since 2000, she has worked with families facing serious illness and has educated both laypeople and healthcare professionals in the art and practical skill of accompanying the dying.

Over the past two decades, she has helped shape the development of end-of-life doula practice internationally and continues to focus on reducing suffering before hospice begins and expanding awareness of early access to palliative care.

She is the founder of CareDoula® Education (2005) and creator of the first End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program in the United States (2010).

A founding member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance and the first Chair of the End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council within the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization, Deanna is known for her work bridging healthcare, higher education, and community-based care, with a special passion for unifying practitioners across the end-of-life movement.

Deanna Flores Cochran, RN
Hospice Nurse, Educator
CareDoula® Education
Austin, TX