Catherine Serena, MSW, LSW, ACHP-SW
Hospice and Palliative Care
Catherine Serena has worked in health care for 30 years, providing education on end of life issues in both academic and health care environments. Currently serving as a licensed, medical social worker within the Lehigh Valley Health Network’s Division of Palliative Medicine, Serena is a member of the core faculty and is bereavement certified and is an Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Social Worker. She continues to co-facilitate one of the nation’s first weekend children’s bereavement camps, Camp Dragonfly, and teaches at Albright College in Reading, Pa., providing death education. Serena presents issues related to death and dying at the state and national level. Her philosophy is always to “start where the client is” and she makes every effort to optimize such relationships while supporting the medical team.