Nancy Isenberg is a cognitive neurologist. She is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging at Swedish Neuroscience Institute and a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Washington School of Medicine where she co-leads Project ECHO Dementia. Compassion deepens her interests in family-centered dementia care, population health and medical education by focussing on our interdependence. In teaching CCT to dementia care partners, health care providers and hospice staff, she has witnessed how compassion cultivation can strengthen relationships and promote resilience in work and life.