Laura Tycon Moreines is a Nurse Practitioner for Yale New Haven Health. She has a penchant for non-malignant palliative care, and currently works in pain management. Moreines holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Case Western Reserve University and her master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she minored in Palliative Care. Prior to moving to Yale, she worked at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as the lead NP in an outpatient cardiopulmonary palliative care clinic. She has a special interest in geriatric patients with dementia and chronic multiple morbidities. She has researched models on how to best integrate palliative care into nonmalignant disease processes including Heart Failure, Cystic Fibrosis, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Pulmonary Hypertension and Dementia. Ms. Moreines has presented extensively at the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and was co-editor for the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association’s third edition of their Core Curriculum for the Hospice and Palliative Advanced Practice Registered Nurse. She was the recipient of a leadership development award from the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association for rising leaders in the field in palliative care. She enjoys baking and spending time on Long Island Sound with her 13-month-old daughter.
