Welcome Fernando Murillo!

Please join us in welcoming Fernando Murillo, Amend Program Coordinator, to the Division!

Fernando has joined the Amend Team as their new Program Coordinator.  Fernando is a Berkeley native who is passionate about providing compassionate end-of-life palliative care.  During his five years of working in palliative care between 2015-2020, he received several trainings and certifications in providing end-of-life care for the geriatric offender in a correctional setting from UC Davis and University of Southern California.  These trainings included: proficiencies in symptom identification, compassion fatigue, identifying strokes, wound care, durable medical equipment needs and creative brain works. His work experience include serving as facilitator for The Beat Within and The  Urban School of San Francisco where he wrote workshops and led discussions to provide incarcerated youth and high school students with a consistent opportunity to share their ideas and life experiences in a safe space that encourages literacy, self-expression, and critical thinking.  Between 2015 and 2020, Fernando was as a Palliative Care Provider at the California Medical Facility Hospice unit, where he provided end-of-life care in a 17-bed unit as part of an interdisciplinary team in the only licensed hospice in the State of California prison system.  At the same facility, he also served as an Inmate Advisory Council Executive Chairman, a management position representing 2,400 inmates as a liaison between the population and executive staff regarding health care, programing, education and rehabilitation services accessibility.  Finally, Fernando has also completed coursework in the following subjects: psychology, criminal justice and business, which is extremely relevant to his new role at UCSF.  As the Amend Program Coordinator, Fernando will be providing support across a broad range of projects related to Amend, a health-focused prison reform program that delivers immersive learning and professional training programming to correctional professionals and partners with a range of stakeholders, including incarcerated people and their advocates, to advance a humane, healthy, and dignity-driven transformation of correctional culture in the U.S..  Fernando will be reporting to Michele Casadei (Amend Program Lead).  Once his email is activated (tomorrow), Fernando can be reached at [email protected].  Please join us in welcoming Fernando to the team!