Advisory Committees Members
Advocacy Advisory Committee
Charles W. Fluharty, MDiv
President and Chief Executive Officer Rural Policy Research Institute
William D. Novelli
Distinguished Professor of the Practice, McDonough School of Business Georgetown University
Kathleen M. Foley, MD
Attending Neurologist Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Joseph F. Prevratil
President and Chief Executive Officer Archstone Foundation
Rev. Eric J. Hall, MDiv, MA
President and Chief Executive Officer HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Joan M. Teno, M.D., M.S
Professor, Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine University of Washington
Cheryl Holmes, OAM
Chief Executive Officer Spiritual Health Victoria, Australia
Charles F. von Gunten, MD, PhD
Vice President, Medical Affairs Hospice & Palliative Care OhioHealth
Amy Melnick, MPA
National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care
Chaplaincy Services Advisory Committee
DW Donovan, D.Bioethics, BCC
Director of Mission Leadership Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
Rev. Paul Nash, MA
Director, Centre for Paediatric Spiritual Care and Senior Chaplain Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK
Rev. David Fleenor, BCC, ACPE Supervisor
Director of Clinical Pastoral Education Mount Sinai Health System
Rev. Joep Van de Geer
Hospital Chaplain & Spiritual Care in Palliative Care Consultant Medical Centre Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Co-chair, European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Taskforce on Spiritual Care
Rev. Eric J. Hall, MDiv, MA
President and Chief Executive Officer HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Rev. George Handzo, BCC, CSSBB
Director of Health Services, Research and Quality HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Rev. Sue Wintz, MDiv, BCC
Director, Professional and Community Education HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Rev. Dr. Ewan Kelly
Spiritual Care Lead NHS Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Education Advisory Committee
Brian H. Childs, Ph.D.
Community Professor
Mercer University School of Medicine
Rev. Deryck Durston, M.Div, STM
System Director of Spiritual Care and Education Certified Chaplain Educator
Ochsner Health System
Chaplain Bruce D. Feldstein, M.D.
Director of The Jewish Chaplaincy and Adjunct Clinical Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Rev. David Fleenor, BCC, ACPE Supervisor
Director of Clinical Pastoral Education
Mount Sinai Health System
Dall Forsythe, PhD
Adjunct Professor
NYU Wagner School of Public Service
Catherine F. Garlid, MDiv, BCC
Director of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education
Maine Medical Center
Rev. Paul Nash, MA
Director, Centre for Paediatric Spiritual Care and Senior Chaplain Birmingham Children’s Hospital, UK
Rev. Joep Van de Geer
Hospital Chaplain & Spiritual Care in Palliative Care Consultant
Medical Centre Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Co-chair, European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) Taskforce on Spiritual Care
Rev. Sue Wintz, MDiv, BCC
Director, Professional and Community Education
HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Palliative Care Advisory Committee
Susan Block, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Co-Director, HMS Center for Palliative Care, Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Eduardo Bruera, MD, FAAHPM
Department Chair, Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine
MD Anderson Cancer Network
Nessa Coyle RN., PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ronit Elk, PhD
Research Associate Professor
College of Nursing, University of South Carolina
Rev. Eric J. Hall, MDiv, MA
President and Chief Executive Officer
HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Barry M. Kinzbrunner, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Vitas Innovative Hospice Care
Robert Macedonio, RN
Director Patient Services
ACS Home Care
Richard Payne, M.D.
Esther Colliflower Professor of Medicine and Divinity
Duke University
Michael W. Rabow, MD
Director, Symptom Management Service, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Mary Runge, RN, BSN, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Horizon Hospice & Palliative Care
Thomas J. Smith MD
Professor of Palliative Medicine and Oncology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Martha L. Twaddle MD FACP FAAHPM HMDC
Senior Medical Director, Aspire Health
Executive Advisor, Home Centered Care Institute
Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Research Advisory Committee
David B. Case, M.D., MACP, FAHA
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Founding Partner, New York Physicians, LLP
Teresa Cutts, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences & Health Policy
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Nathan Goldstein, MD
Professor, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Mount Sinai Health System
Rev. Eric J. Hall, MDiv, MA
President and Chief Executive Officer
HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Rev. George Handzo, BCC, CSSBB
Director of Health Services, Research and Quality
HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
Rev. Brian P. Hughes, BCC, MDiv, MS
Consultant
HealthCare Chaplaincy Network
T. David Ito, MA MDiv CFSC
Professor of Clinical Spiritual Care &
Vice-Director Institute of Grief Care
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Kenneth I. Pargament, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
Leah G. Pope, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Substance Use and Mental Health Program
Vera Institute of Justice
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
Chief Medical Officer
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care
Lucy Selman, PhD
Research Fellow, Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration, School of Social and Community Medicine,
University of Bristol, UK
Shane Sinclair, PhD, MDiv
Assistant Professor, Cancer Care Research Professorship,
Faculty of Nursing
University of Calgary, Canada
Emily Viverette, MDiv, ACPE Supervisor
Director and CPE Supervisor, Department of Faith Health Education
Wake Forest Baptist Health