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Dr. Cynthia Hovland is also an adjunct faculty member with NEOMED in the Department of Community & Family Medicine. Hovland teaches Grief, Death, Loss & Life, Social Work in Aging, Human Behavior in the Social Environment I & II, Aging and Social Work Practice, Psychopathology and Human Values in Medicine. Additionally, she serves as director of a National Institutes of Health center grant, overseeing the Education Core for the Center of Health Disparities at CSU in partnership with MetroHealth. 

Hovland's program of research explores disparities in health care, interprofessional education, spirituality in health care, end-of-life care, death and dying, caregiving, grief and loss and Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Her research interests are grounded in nearly 20 years of clinical practice as a hospice social worker, grief counselor/supervisor, volunteer, clinical manager and scholar. Hovland's previous work on this topic has included national conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications.