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AnneMarie Wallace
AnneMarie Wallace is the Manager of Clinical Chaplaincy Programs for the Department of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Education at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She has worked for over 25 years in the field of healthcare at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and The Ronald McDonald House of Houston, Texas, in administrative and board of director roles, respectively. As a constant proponent for the needs of patients and caregivers, she has trained and serves as a Counselor and Chaplain and remains in ongoing education regarding spirituality and pastoral care. Passionate about mission work, she has spent many years in Urban Mission work through First Presbyterian Church, Houston, Texas and has recently co-established a Medical Missions Group at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center."
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Anne Gill, Dr.P.H., M.S., R.N.
Dr. Gill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine and is engaged in the development of educational offerings related to public health, professionalism, communication, cultural competency and palliative care. Toward that end she is a co-investigator on an NIH grant to increase the behavioral and social science curriculum in medical education, and is the PI on a grant to do the same for palliative care clinical instruction. Dr. Gill serves as a course director; ethics and problem based learning facilitator and is chair of the medical student professionalism committee. In addition to her work at BCM Dr. Gill is a nurse with experience in pediatrics and working in underserved communities. She is married to the Rev. Dr. Jim Gill, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Tomball.
Contact Information
Address:Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza
Office of UME, M220
Houston, Texas 77030
Phone: 713 523 4429
Email: gill@bcm.tmc.edu"
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Jennifer Stelly, BSChE, DHC, CBI
Jennifer Stelly, BSChE, DHC, CBI, is a Certified BodyTalk Instructor and Advanced BodyTalk Practitioner as well as a Therapeutic Homeopath, speaker and author. She has studied and practiced energy medicine and many holistic healthcare modalities since 1997 and has travelled nationally teaching and speaking at conferences, schools and corporations.
She found that blending her background in energy medicine with her broad knowledge of chemical engineering systems and Advanced Process Control and Optimization theory to be invaluable in assisting clients in reaching their best health and most dynamic balance possible.
Jennifer offers safe, non-invasive healing and balancing BodyTalk sessions to assist the body in healing itself. The BodyTalk System is one of the most comprehensive, integrative, and holistic healthcare systems available to date and is internationally recognized, combining many Eastern and Western medical philosophies with the practitioner's previous training and knowledge.
Jennifer teaches the one-day BodyTalk Access course that illustrates 5 powerful wellness techniques, plus the amazing Fast Aid protocol for injuries and pain, balancing the bodymind complex and helping the body recover from the daily effects of stress. She also offers the Module 1 & 2 courses for those interested in a more in-depth look at BodyTalk, as well as for those wanting to become a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner.
Contact Information
Phone: 713 523 4429
Email: Jennifer@bodymindmechanics.com
Websites: www.bodymindmechanics.com
www.bodytalksystem.com"
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Harvey L. Gordon M.D.
Harvey L. Gordon is Clinical Professor of Urology and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr.Gordon is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of Medicine. He has taught and practiced since 1967 at Baylor College of Medicine and at The Methodist Hospital. Now retired from the practice of Urology he serves on the Bioethics Committee and the Bioethics Consultation Service of The Methodist Hospital, and teaches Bioethics at Baylor College of Medicine. He is an associate faculty member of Baylor's Center for Ethics and Health Policy. Dr. Gordon has also written about and taught Jewish Bioethics with special focus on end-of-life issues. He is a student of Jewish spiritual pathways, especially those pursued in meditation. He has published numerous articles and has co-edited two books. He co-authored the chapter on “Jewish Bioethics” in “Annals of Bioethics - Religious Perspectives in Bioethics”. He was the founding Chair of the Bioethics Committee of the Union for Reform Judaism and is the author of the booklet “When It Hurts Too Much to Live: Questions and Answers about Jewish Tradition and the Issues of Assisted Death”. On a national level he has played leadership roles in the areas of Reform Jewish liturgy, religious living, adult education and social action."
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Dr. Jill Carroll
Dr. Carroll directs the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance at Rice University in Houston, Texas where she is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. She is a recognized expert on issues of religious tolerance, philosophy of religion, American religion, and religion in public life. Her areas of specialty include: the role of religion in world politics, comparative world religions, trends in American religion, and the impact of religious diversity in global business.
Dr. Carroll earned her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Rice University in 1994. She is the author of numerous articles and four books. A recent book, A Dialogue of Civilizations: Gulen’s Islamic Ideals and Human Discourse was a Publishers Weekly bestseller in religion, having been in a “Top 10” category on Amazon in May 2007. She is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, and has been interviewed by The New York Times, PBS, and Good Morning America. She combines her scholarly knowledge with a flair for “real world” application. Through her own consulting business, and in collaboration with others, she has conducted religious diversity training for individuals, groups and corporations. Her forthcoming book is Philosophy for Life: How Ideas from the Great Minds can Rock Your World.
Dr. Carroll is a dynamic speaker with a gift for simplifying complicated matters without stripping them of their substance and nuance, thus bringing the “ivory tower” to the “town square”. Moreover, she communicates in an informational, “faith neutral” and humorous manner that sets the appropriate context for discussing sensitive issues in a public setting."
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Marnie Morrison, B.S., CHTP
Marnie Morrison, B.S., CHTP Marnie is a certified Healing Touch Practitioner, a Reiki Master, and certified Hypnotherapist.
Marnie is a certified facilitator with the non-profit Association of the Development of Mind/Body Potential, Inc. She has facilitated their classes for breast cancer survivors at The Rose Imaging Center in Houston, Texas, a non-profit organization. She is the published author of Everyday Health and Well-being: A Practical Guide.
Marnie, her husband Tom and their cat, Angel, live in Sugar Land, Texas; she has two children and five grandchildren. Marnie, former Information Technology Professional, left her career of over 20 years to pursue this new exciting career in holistic health care. She is a dynamic speaker, sharing stories from her wide variety of interests and experiences. Marnie is the owner of The Healing Room in Sugar Land.
Contact Information
Address: Sugar Land, Texas 77479
Phone (office): 281.343.5111
Phone (cell): 713.724.4133
Email: Marnie.Morrison@gmail.com"
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Kenneth Pargament, Ph.D.
Dr. Pargament is professor of clinical psychology at Bowling Green State University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Maryland and interned in clinical psychology at Rutgers Medical School. He completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at the johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Pargament joined the faculty in the psychology Department at Bowling Green State University in 1979. He has also served as Adjunct Professor in the School of Theology at Boston University from 1999 to 2005 and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Lackland Air Force Base Medical Center.
He has published over 160 refereed articles, many of which focus on the roles of religion in coping with trauma. His measures of religious coping are now the standard in the field. His 1997 book, the Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice was described by the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic as “the best book on the psychology of religion in a generation or more.”
Dr. Pargament has been actively involved in efforts to provide practitioners with an empirically-based, theoretical framework for evaluating and dealing with religious and spiritual issues in treatment. This work culminated in his most recent book, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred, a book that was described as unique in the literature, a “remarkable combination of clinical acumen and spiritual sensitivity.”"
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Dr. Harvey L. Gordon
Harvey L. Gordon is Clinical Professor of Urology and Medical Ethics at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr.Gordon is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of Medicine. He has taught and practiced since 1967 at Baylor College of Medicine and at The Methodist Hospital. Now retired from the practice of Urology he serves on the Bioethics Committee and the Bioethics Consultation Service of The Methodist Hospital, and teaches Bioethics at Baylor College of Medicine. He is an associate faculty member of Baylor's Center for Ethics and Health Policy. Dr. Gordon has also written about and taught Jewish Bioethics with special focus on end-of-life issues. He is a student of Jewish spiritual pathways, especially those pursued in meditation. He has published numerous articles and has co-edited two books. He co-authored the chapter on “Jewish Bioethics” in “Annals of Bioethics - Religious Perspectives in Bioethics”. He was the founding Chair of the Bioethics Committee of the Union for Reform Judaism and is the author of the booklet “When It Hurts Too Much to Live: Questions and Answers about Jewish Tradition and the Issues of Assisted Death”. On a national level he has played leadership roles in the areas of Reform Jewish liturgy, religious living, adult education and social action."
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Gina Pursely B.A. C.H.T.P.
...hope, happiness, love, laughter, inner peace
Gina is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner who makes her home in Livingston, Texas. After retiring from 31 years of teaching, she discovered her passion and love for healing touch and other forms of energy medicine. Her quest for knowledge lead her to study Spring Forest Qigong, Medical Intuitive, Psych K., Raindrop Therapy, Back Flower Remedies, Healing Touch for Animals, Animal Communication and Laughter Yoga. Gina’s mantra is unconditional love. Her treatments are enhanced by her kind, gentle, and caring demeanor. Her wish for everyone is that their hearts be filled with hope, happiness, love, laughter, and inner peace.
Contact Information
Phone (home): 936.327.4253
Phone (cell): 936.328.4521
Email: koonbilly@livingston.net"
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Cha Foxhall, OSB Obl, M.Ed., L.P.C.
Cha is Director of The Living Well Center for Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Health located in Houston, Texas. She holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Cha is a graduate of the Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine with Herbert Benson, M.D. at Harvard Medical School and also of the Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine Professional Training Program with psychiatrist James Gordon, M.D. of Georgetown University School of Medicine. She is a Benedictine Oblate of the Pecos Benedictine Monastery where she teaches at the School for Spiritual Directors.
Cha si also a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the Institute for Spirituality and Health."
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Dr. Ellen Gong, L.Ac.
Dr. Ellen Gong, L.Ac., founder of Eastern Balance Oriental Medicine. Attained MD in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Guangxi University in China and MS in Oriental Medicine from American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Houston, Texas. Practicing Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the USA since 2002.
Dr. Gong began a lifelong study of the Eastern philosophy of healing at an early age when she apprenticed to her uncle, Dr. Huang Jia Zhao, Prof. MD. Dr. Zhao is a well-known and highly-respected MD in TCM, recognized by the People's Republic of China as one of the group of ten outstanding doctors of his generation.
Moving to the USA, Dr. Gong served another apprenticeship with Ray Luk, L.Ac. (a 3rd generation master of Wu style Tai Ji), studying Qi Gong exercise and five element theory to harmonize the whole person and promote self-healing, along with Acupuncture and Chinese herbal Medicine.
Dr. Gong has devoted most of her life to studying the Eastern philosophy of healing, but also incorporates western concepts of wellness to assist her patients in achieving the best results possible. She offers expertise in many areas including women's health, senior wellness, rehabilitation from trauma and from stroke, and pain and stress management. She treats hormone imbalances, thyroid problems, heart disease, high blood pressure, tinnitus, insomnia, COPD, and many chronic diseases."
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Dr. Baisong Zhong, MD (China), Ph.D.
Dr. Baisong Zhong, MD (China), Ph.D., Professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Houston, TX. Licensed acupuncturist and herbal specialist in Texas and Louisiana. Member of the American Academy of Pain Management.
More than 20 years clinical experience in pain management and supportive treatment for chemotherapy and radiotherapy using acupuncture and traditional Chinese Herbs. Ph.D. and MD in immune disorders and TCM from the Chengdu teaching hospital at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China).
Participant in four Chinese herbal formula patents: one to improve the quality life of cancer patients, one to strengthen the immune function, and two to treat peptic ulcer and hypertension. Lead researcher in nine TCM research programs. Authored more than 30 papers. nine books (Chinese) about TCM, two books (English) for NCCAOM National Board Exam test prep in acupuncture and Chinese Herbs."
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Bing You, M.D. (China), L.Ac., D.A.A.P.M.
Dr. Bing You received both his M.D. and Master of Medicine Science of Acupuncture and Moxibustion degree from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Sichuan, China. He had the distinct honor, as a sixth generation Tai- Chi disciple, to received Master-to-Disciple training from Masters Jinhui Song.
Currently he is an associate professor at American College of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine teaching acupuncture, Tui-na, Qi-Gong and Tai-chi Sword and an active lecturer in the Houston area such as Rice University and Institute for Spirituality and Health at Texas Medical Center. He is also a researcher doing joint research projects with Baylor College of Medicine and MD Anderson on the benefits of acupuncture. Dr. You is a licensed acupuncturist in the State of Texas and recognized Diplomate of American Academy of Pain Management (AAPM).
His private practice is at the Center for Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine in the River Oaks Medical Tower, utilizing acupuncture, Taichi, Chinese medicine and western medicine to restore patients' wellbeing."
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Vicki Tidwell Palmer, LMSW
Vicki Tidwell Palmer, LMSW, ASAT has taught mindfulness practice and meditation since 1991. In her psychotherapy practice she uses mindfulness techniques to help individuals increase focus, reduce obsessive thinking, and achieve relief from stress-related symptoms. Her approach to treatment is grounded in the premise that personal growth requires awareness of the self, insight into the origins or self-defeating behaviors as well one's life vision, and the ability to live consistently within one's value system. Her goal is to create an effective and dynamic alliance by joining with her clients through the truth in a non-judgmental and compassionate way.
Vicki is a Licensed Master Social Worker and Associate Sex Addiction Therapist certified by the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals. Her clinical specialties include sex and co-sex addiction, codependency, resolution of childhood trauma, couples therapy, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy. She has worked with individuals and families in recovery from substance and alcohol dependence, survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, and offenders in the Federal Pre-Trial and Probation system.
Contact Information
Address:1501 Crocker, Suite 1
Houston, Texas 77019
Phone (office): 713.540.0909
Phone (fax): 713.630.0821
Email: v.tidwellpalmer@gmail.com
Website: www.vickitidwellpalmer.com"
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Linda Safranek, M.A., L.P.C.
Linda Safranek, M.A., L.P.C. has been teaching meditation since 1996 and has maintained her own meditation practice more than 25 years. Though she has studied a variety of meditation styles with different teachers, her core meditation practice has always been mindfulness meditation (vapassana) or the cultivation of attentive moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness. Since her return to the U.S.A. in 2004, her meditation practice and teaching have been significantly influenced by her contact with meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Diana Winston, and her training in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction or MBSR (a program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Stress Reduction Clinic.)
Linda is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Texas and is a member of the American Counseling Association. Currently she is a mindfulness meditation instructor and psychotherapist at Contemporary Medicine Associates and she maintains a private practice in Kingwood, Texas. Her goal is to provide classes and workshops on mindfulness and counseling for individuals, couples, and adolescents seeking to address issues such as life transitions, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, stress, relationship difficulties and behavioral change. She also serves as a teacher and counselor for NIDA grants that study the impact of mindfulness training on recovery from substance abuse and dependency.
Contact Information
Phone (office): 713.267.0440
Email: Lvsafranek@yahoo.com
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Martha Malkowski
Martha Malkowski discovered yoga over six years ago and has studied in Chicago, New York and Houston. While training under Lex Gillan, Martha received her certification from the Yoga Institute in Houston. It is her hope to share the health, mental and physical benefits that yoga has brought to her life with others. As such, Martha will structure her classes in order for her students to find yoga comfortable but challenging. She will teach Vinyasa style classes with influences of Ashtanga, Hatha, and Iyengar. The classes will target strength and conditioning while improving one’s flexibility. Martha’s classes will be ideal for athletes, fitness enthusiasts, yoga devotees of all levels and those who seek to reduce their stress levels. Martha currently teaches a variety of students including corporate clients, athletes, yoga novices, yogis and elderly practitioners."
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function harmon() {
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Deanie Harmon
In 2004 Deanie "Dee" Harmon retired as a Senior Police Officer with a Master Law Enforcement Certificate from the Houston Police Department after 24 years of service.
Since her retirement she found a new love and passion for teaching yoga and giving back to the community serving as a volunteer through many organizations. In 2006 Dee began volunteering at the Harris County Psychiatric Center teaching yoga in the Adolescent Program. In an effort to better serve the community she has received education in relaxation, self-purification, energy healing, chakras, and meditation. Her passion led to her receiving certification as a yoga teacher from The Yoga Institute in 2008.
As a member of the Institute for Spirituality and Health it is Dee’s passion and desire to support and give to the community the knowledge to engage the mind, energize the soul and strengthen the body to obtain optimal health.
Contact Information
Phone: 713.822.6048
Email: harmondeanie@yahoo.com"
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function goodrich() {
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Dr. Thelma Jean Goodrich
Dr. Thelma Jean Goodrich , Ph.D., is an individual, couple, and family therapist. She has maintained a clinical practice for thirty years and has published many articles and three books in the field of family therapy. During these years, Dr. Goodrich has held a full-time appointment as Director of Behavioral Science in the Department of Family Medicine in three universities: Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in New York City, and the University of Texas-Houston Medical School. Her most recent faculty position was at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer in Houston where she was Director of Faculty Health from 2005 to June of 2008.
Contact Information
Phone: 713 866 4876
Email: GoodrichThelmaJean@yahoo.com<
Website: www.HealingMountains-LifeCycleCeremonies.com"
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Karla Gillan
Karla Gillan, a Reiki Master/Teacher, assists medical professionals, patients and lay people in reducing stress, promoting wellness and health. Reiki, a Japanese method, is a non-invasive and non-manipulative treatment that is useful for relief of chronic conditions, as well as pain and stress. Through the placement of hands in a series of prescribed positions covering the head, main organs, endocrine and nervous system, tension is released from the mind and body; promoting homeostasis.
Karla’s experience started over 7 years ago, when introduced to Reiki during her Real Estate career. In order to increase productivity and reduce sick time, her employer provided Reiki services. Upon learning of an Eastern technique that worked in conjunction with Western medicine, she followed the path to become a Reiki Master and Teacher.
Karla is a member of The International Association of Reiki Professionals and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Administration from Texas State University.
Contact Information
Phone: 713.376.0230
Email: karla@instituteofreiki.com
Website: www.instituteofreiki.com"
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function morrow() {
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Bonnie Kelley Morrow BNH, HTCP, HTCI
Bonnie, President, Healing Touch Texas, President, Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation, Inc™, is a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner and Certified Instructor. She is a charter member of Healing Touch International and President of the Healing Touch Worldwide Foundation, which sponsors research on integrative medicine and service projects around the world. Bonnie retired from Exxon Chemical Company to establish her private Healing Touch practice. Bonnie is CEO of Healing Touch Texas, a corporation which provides training throughout southeast Texas. Her vision and passion is to have Healing Touch available throughout the world."
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function holbrook() {
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Georgie Holbrook
Georgie Holbrook is a emotional wellness coach, speaker and author. For 20 years she has received national recognition in helping individuals and families discover vibrant health and fulfilling lifestyles. She examines the underlying needs of the human body, making the connection between our running on ‘empty emotionally and nutritionally’ and our physical health challenges. Georgie has taught in universities, colleges, businesses, churches and various centers across the U.S.A. She has been an instructor at 3 massage schools.
Georgie is the author of Joy-Full Holistic Remedies, How To Experience Your Natural Ability To Heal. Her healing articles have appeared in numerous national magazines.
She enjoys teaching others a ‘whole person approach’ to wellness evaluating where you are in the present and where you want to be in the future.
She customizes wellness programs along with doing foot reflexology, cranial (head massage) and deep relaxation therapy.
Contact Information:
Phone: 281.218.8773
Website: www.joy-full.com
E-mail: joy_full@earthlink.net"
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function bettler() {
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Lucia Ferrara Bettler
Lucia Ferrara Bettler is a native Houstonian with Sicilian roots, and the owner of the well known Houston gift/herbal shop and learning center, Lucia’s Garden. A former nun, she was an English major at the University of ST. Thomas and taught literature and mythology in HISD for 12 years. She is a student of Jungian psychology and of world religions, folklore and myths. She is deeply passionate about music, food, herbs and connections. She is on the Board of Brigid’s Place, an ecumenical women’s group. She specializes in celebrations from the ancient world, the cycles and seasons and, through her travels and education, is interested in the culture, cuisine and faith of people all over the world.
Lucia is a member of the Herb Society of America and is past president of the International Herb Association. In addition to her shop, she lectures extensively on Gardening, including herbs, cooking and diverse culinary traditions, metaphysical interests, Aromatherapy. She is a dynamic, passionate teacher whose workshops are rich in out-of-the ordinary information that includes research that is riveting in her unique presentation. She absolutely believes in the healing power of plants and the way they enhance our lives. Lucia knows, first hand, the value of nourishing the body as well as the mind and spirit."
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Donna Carol Fink HTCP, CNHP, Rev., Reiki Master
'Every family should have someone who is conversant with Level I Healing Touch techniques as part of their family first aid kit'
Donna is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner. She retired from thirty years of corporate insurance management to pursue her four passions in life. They are Healing Touch, Creating and Officiating at various life cycle ceremonies, gardening and writing. She has led a Women’s Circle for six years, conducted women’s retreats as well as offering classes on flower essences, essential oils and introductions to the human energy field. She believes that embracing the richness of our global cultures allows us to experience, create and celebrate moments that are a healing balm to the mind, body and Spirit.
Contact Information
Phone: 281-395-4209
Email: Adirondack269@cs.com
Website: www.HealingMountains-LifeCycleCeremonies.com"
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Anthony E. Brown, M.D., M.P.H.
Anthony E. Brown, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, completed residency at the University of California Irvine, and is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from the University of California at San Diego, summa cum laude. Dr. Brown's research interests focus on evaluating the impact of spirituality on health and innovating beneficial applications for conditions such as substance abuse, end of life distress, and coping with chronic disease. For his MPH health promotion and behavioral science thesis during a research fellowship, he developed a spiritual behavioral intervention implemented along with AA Twelve Step Recovery to promote sobriety. He also studied spiritual mechanisms of behavior change in faith-based Twelve Step programs. Dr. Brown is in private practice at Baylor Clinic in the Texas Medical Center where he cares for the primary health concerns of his patients over time, collaborates with other specialists as needed, and aims to help patients enjoy a high quality of life and personal well-being."
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Red. Dr. L. James Bankston
Professional Ministry: Youth Minister, FUMC, Mineola, 1971-72
Intern/Associate Minister, FUMC, Athens, 1972-74
Associate Minister, FUMC, Beaumont, 1974-76
Minister, FUMC, Chandler, 1976-81
Minister, Cokesbury UMC, Houston, 1981-88
Minister, John Wesley UMC, Houston, 1988-1993
Superintendent, Beaumont District, 1993-1995
Senior Minister, St. Paul's UMC, Houston, 1995-Present
Areas of Service:
Board of Directors Institute for Religion and Health
Board of Directors Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston
Board of Directors Center for Faith and Health Initiative, Chair 2000-2001
Board of Directors Coalition for Mutual Respect
Board of Directors for Methodist Mission Home
Advisory Board for Institute for Inter Faith Dialogue
Advisory Board for Preschool For All
Executive Board for Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University
Past Service:
Board of Ordained Ministry, Candidacy Registrar
Board of Directors, Lakeview Conference Center
Hispanic Ministry Task Force Member
Board of Directors - Interface-Samaritan Counseling Centers of Houston
Executive Board of Northwest Assistance Ministries
Chairperson, Division of Age Level and Family Ministry, 1980-84
Assistant Dean, School of Christian Missions, 1982
Dean, School of Christian Missions, 1983-85
Delegate, Jurisdictional Conference, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008
Delegate to General Conference 1996, 2004, 2008
Delegate to World Methodist Conference, 1996, 2001"
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function you() {
document.getElementById("trustees-text").innerHTML = " Bing You, M.D. (China), L.Ac., D.A.A.P.M.
Dr. Bing You received both his M.D. (China) and his Master of Medicine Science of Acupuncture and Moxibustion degree from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Sichuan, China. He also received advanced training in Tui-na (Chinese Body work) at Shanghai University of TCM, and had the distinct honor, as a sixth generation Tai- Chi disciple, to received Master-to-Disciple Tai-Chi training from Masters Jinhui Song, Ziyi Li, and Mogen Lin. In 1995, .Dr You became a teacher himself as he began instructing Chinese medical students and international students in Acupuncture, Tui-na, Qi-Gong and Tai-chi Sword at Chengdu University of TCM. In 1996, in, honor of his many achievements, he was recognized as the Provincial Outstanding Young Physician in Sichuan Province.
In addition to being a teacher, Dr. You is the published author of several books on Tui-na and Chinese herbology and an active lecturer in the Houston area such as Rice University, the University of Houston, and the Memorial Herman South Wellness Center. He is also a researcher currently involved in a National Institute of Health grant-funded project researching the benefits of acupuncture on osteoarthritis of the knee. Dr. You is a licensed acupuncturist in the State of Texas and maintains an active clinical practice specializing in sports injury and pain management with a secondary specialty in internal medicine disorders. He is a recognized Diplomate of Pain Management by the American Academy of Pain Management (AAPM)."
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Nancy Gordon
Nancy Gordon is an active volunteer in the community. Nancy has volunteered for causes ranging from education and children to the environment and arts. Nancy has served on the Board of Trustees for several organizations including The Kinkaid School, TIRR Foundation, and Texas Children's Hospital. She is a founding member of the covenant Houston Texas Guild and VICTORY, a branch of the American Cancer Society. She has chaired events benefiting Texas Children's Hospital, Episcopal High School, Trees For Houston and Bayou Bend. Nancy has received the Bo's Place Robin Bush Award and the Woman of Distinction Award. Nancy and her husband, Jim, along with their three sons are members of Congregation Beth Israel."
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W. Andrew Achenbaum
Trained as a U.S. historian, W. Andrew Achenbaum has spent most of his career applying the lessons of the past to current policy-relevant issues concerning the physical, social, and spiritual well-being of older Americans. He is the author of five books (most recently, Older Americans, Vital Communities [Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005]) and co-editor of eleven others. A past chair of the National Council on the Aging and secretary of the Gerontological Society of America, Achenbaum was founding dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston, where he currently teaches in the Graduate College of Social Work and the Honors College. Achenbaum currently serves as chair of the Gerson David Consortium on Aging, which collaborates with the McGovern Center on Medicine and Ethics, the Rothko Chapel, and the Interfaith Consortium on Aging."
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function fine() {
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Micki Fine, M.Ed., L.P.C.
Micki Fine is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher and founder of Mindful Living in Houston, Texas. She was awarded this credential from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center where Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn founded what is now the largest stress reduction clinic in the world. She combines the practice of psychotherapy with teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to help individuals heal emotionally and physically, transform beliefs to live more fully and peacefully, and deal with stress in creative ways. Her belief in the power of one's inherent strength and capacity for healing strongly influences her work with people experiencing depression, anxiety and chronic pain."
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function kirsch() {
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Barbara Kirsch – Treasurer
Barbara Kirsch has worked with various charities and boards which include: Houston Opera, Houston Ballet, Houston Symphony, Wortham Center, American Museum Society, Trees of Hope, Harris County Heritage Society, The Museum of Natural Science, Houston Baptist Development Council, Houston Baptist University President's Advisory Council for 8 years, on the Executive Board for 2 years and Houston Baptist University Alumni Board of Directors 2 years. Her Professional Memberships/Volunteer work includes: Treasurer for the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center, Retina Research Foundation Board of Advisory Trustee for 20 years, Member of Baker Institute Roundtable at Rice University 10 years, Member of The Women's Institute, Member of St. Martin's Episcopal Church, Member of the Blue Bird Circle, Member of the Museum of Fine Arts and Life member of Methodist Hospital Service Corps for 25 years."
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Raymond J. Khoury
Mr. Khoury has been in the healthcare field since 1966. Has served as system C E O, Hospital C E O and corporate vice president for at least 20 years. Has experience in all aspects of healthcare delivery; Board relations, Medical staff and community relations.- Successfully lead: cultural transformation, turn around situations, ambulatory care centers, sports medicine centers, clinics, acute care hospitals, mental health hospitals, women hospitals, rehab. Facilities, nursing homes, IPA's, HMO's, PHO, cancer centers, medical school relationships, teaching hospitals and residencies, hospital acquisition, sale and conversion.
- During my tenure, initiated and successfully completed the construction and development of several hospital facilities and services: such as the opening of St. John Hospital (next to the Space Center), and the expansion of St. Joseph Hospital in Houston.
- Developed and implemented successful managed care strategies and has multiple hospital management experience.
- Acted as an international consultant in Taiwan, advising the government on health care provider issues.
- Worked with the Sisters of Charity Healthcare System, Houston in various capacities: CEO St. John Hospital, CEO St. Joseph Hospital, Corporate V P Operations Texas (9 institutions), Corporate V P for Health Policy and Government Affairs (set National and State level agenda), Member of the Corporate Senior Leadership Team.
- Worked with the Franciscan System in Western Pennsylvania as President/CEO of St. Francis Health System.
- Serves on many boards and organizations. Received many awards: Distinguished Alumnus University of Houston/Clear Lake, Executive in Residence University of Houston/Clear Lake, Paul Harris Fellow/Space Center Rotary, Lunar Rendez-vous King, Diplomat of the American College of Health Care Executives.
Education: BS from University of Houston, MS in Healthcare Administration University of Houston/Clear Lake.
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Cha is Founding Director of The Living Well Center for Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Health, with offices near the Texas Medical Center. A psychotherapist, spiritual director and meditation teacher, she leads groups for spiritual renewal for healthcare professionals, clergy and hospital chaplains. Her clinical areas of interest include mind/body/spirit treatment of anxiety, depression, and health issues, as well as self-care for healthcare professionals.
Cha holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology from the University of Houston, summa cum laude. She is a graduate of the Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine Professional Training Program of the Center for Mind/Body Medicine with psychiatrist James Gordon, M.D. of the Georgetown University School of Medicine. She is also a graduate of the Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine with Herbert Benson, M.D. at Harvard Medical School.
For over forty years she has been researching complementary medicine with an emphasis on the role of spirituality in health, wellness, stress, meditation and, more recently, neuroscience. She has also studied extensively and taught integrative healing modalities such as guided imagery, autogenic training, nutrition, exercise and journaling.
She began meditating twenty-seven years ago and is a graduate of the World Community for Christian Meditation School for Teachers. Over the past twenty years she has studied at the Pecos Benedictine Monastery, which she joined as an Oblate of the Order of St. Benedict. She is a graduate of their School for Spiritual Directors.
In the 1970's she established the first mind/body/spirit center in Houston. In 1994 she was one of the organizing founders of the Shalom Center for Healing and Wholeness where she organized an integrative program of Christian psychotherapy, psychoeducational offerings and training workshops.
She is a member of the Society for Christian Psychology, the American Group Psychotherapy Association and the International Order of St. Luke the Physician. She is a frequent lecturer for the Community of Hope, based at St. Luke's Hospital, the Formation in Direction Program of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, and many area churches."
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Richard Materson - President/CEO
Richard S. Materson, M.D. is Clinical Full Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of medicine and UT Medical School at Houston.. He retired from Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in July 2005 where he had served as Corporate Medical Vice -President. His responsibilities included Wellness, Mind-Body Medicine, Integrated Medicine, Post Acute Care and the Spiritual Leadership Institute. He was Sr. VP and Medical Director of the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC from 1990-1997. He is a former President of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Founder and 1st President of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Education and Research Foundation (PMR-ERF). He has been honored as a Schachtel Lecturer, the Walter Zeiter Lecturer, and has received a Distinguished Public Service Award from the AAPM&R. He has served many organizations as officer or Board member including ten years at he Institute for Religion and Health where he was previous Board Chair. He was a member of and Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for PM&R and has had teaching appointments at multiple institutions. He has over 250 invited lectures and presentations and is an author of multiple books, chapters and papers. His major clinical interest has been axiology in the treatment of chronic pain and the intersection of spirituality and medical science."
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Jerri Doctor – Manager of Operations
Jerri Doctor has spent her professional career working in medical and religious non-profit organizations. She is Manager of Operations at the Institute for Religion and Health, a Texas Medical Center organization. The Institute is a fifty-year old organization that explores the relationship between faith, spirituality, and personal well-being. Jerri organizes conferences, retreats, and board meetings and handles all decision making operations at the Institute. She joined the staff in July 2003.
Before coming to the Institute, Jerri was the Administrative Assistant to the senior clergy at Congregation Beth Israel, one of the nation's largest Reform synagogues. In her role at Beth Israel, Jerri helped organize the Scholar-in-Residence program for the congregation and provided a wide range of support services for its clergy.
Jerri has also worked at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas Medical Center and at the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston.
Jerri attended the University of Oklahoma where she studied business education, and has taken special courses at Houston Community College and Medical Terminology classes at Baylor College of Medicine. She is a board member of the Sisterhood and a member of the Community Concerns Committee at Congregation Beth Israel.
Jerri has three boys and two granddaughters."
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Jim Walzel- Chairman of the Board
Jim Walzel, a native of Rosenberg, Texas graduated from Rice University with a BA degree and a BS in Chemical Engineering. He has worked in the natural gas industry for his entire career. He worked at Houston Natural Gas for 17 years and was president of the company when it was acquired in 1985. He is currently Chairman on a small private natural gas storage company, Rangers Gas Storage. He serves as a trustee of Southwestern University, a trustee of the Texas Methodist Foundation and a trustee of the Kathryn Murfee Endowment. He is a member of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church. He and his wife Pat, have two daughters and four grandchildren."
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Ray Thomas - Business Manager
Ray Thomas, CPA has worked in the accounting profession for over 40 years. He is degreed in Business Administration, with a major in Accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, N.J. The early years of his professional career were spent doing accounting work for manufacturing companies, and then he joined Maersk Lines Ltd., the U.S. operation of A.P. Moller Steamship Company. During that time he earned his CPA license and also transferred to the Houston area in 1985. He remained with Maersk in various accounting and financial management positions for 20 years, and retired in 1997. He joined the Institute in December, 2003 and is responsible for all accounting functions including the preparation of financial statements and budgets, participates at board and management meetings, and works with the CEO, Manager of Operations and Project Directors. Ray is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants."
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Mary Helen McFerren Morosko Casseday, MA, LMFT, CHT, CART - Project Director
Mary Helen is presently the Project Director of the Institute for Spirituality & Health. She was formerly Director of Integrated Medicine and Director of Psychiatric Services with Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in Houston, Texas.
Mary Helen earned a Master of Arts Degree in Clinical Psychology/Behavioral Science from The University of Houston at Clear Lake and holds a Licensure in Marriage & Family Therapy as well as Certifications in Hypnotherapy, Family Therapy and Anger Management. She is Board Certified as a Professional Counselor and has engaged in the practice of psychotherapy for 30 years. Her clinical areas of expertise as a Holistic Therapist are Stress Management, Anxiety & Depression, Psychosomatic Medicine, Pain Management, Integrated Medicine and Mind/Body/Spirit Medicine. Mary Helen has worked in Healthcare Administration, Business & Industry as well as Clinical Private Practice. She is a noted lecturer and educator with a talent for working with others creatively, compassionately and with a sense of humor. She previously owned a working farm with a "back to nature" and "organic" focus.
Mary Helen welcomes each day as another opportunity for blessings, which can come in many forms.
Contact Information
Phone: 713 797 0600
Email: mhm@ish-tmc.org"
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Rev'd Dr. John Graham - Vice Chairman
The Rev. John K. Graham, M.D., D.Min. - Both a physician and priest, John is a graduate of Tulane Medical School and has a Doctor of Ministry degree from Seabury-Western university. As a Plastic Surgeon, John performed one of the first microsurgical limb re-attachments widely publicized as the "Easter Story of 1977." He is founding member of the Board of Directors of St. Luke's Hospital Episcopal Health Charities, is the author of two books, Mold Me & Shape Me and Graham Crackers and Milk: Food for the Heart and Soul, and serves as Associate Rector at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas."
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Dr. James Lomax
Dr. Lomax is Associate Chairman and Director of Educational Programs in the Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his B.A. from Rice University in 1967 Magna Cum Laude and his M.D. with honors from Baylor College of Medicine in 1971. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. His internship in internal medicine at the University of Oregon. Portland VAR was followed by a residency in general psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine where he served as chief resident. Dr. Lomax completed psychoanalytic training in 1986 at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (HGPI) . He was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor in 1989 and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at HGPI in 1998. Dr. Lomax is former president of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is former president of the Houston Psychiatric Society and served on the Executive Board of the Rice University Alumni Association. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Institute of Religion at the Texas Medical Center. Dr. Lomax has served both on the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry and the Part I (Testwriting) Committee of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Lomax served five years as Chairman of Baylor's Graduate Medical Education Committee (which has oversight responsibility for more than 1,200 residents in 78 ACGME accredited and 61 nonaccredited, subspecialty residency programs) . He is Vice Chair of Baylor's Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee. Dr. Lomax's clinical interests are in psychoanalytic treatment of anxiety, mood, and personality disorders. His scholarly interests include the interface between religion, spirituality, and healing from a psychiatric and psychoanalytic perspective."
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Carolyn Monteith Clarke
Carolyn Monteith Clarke has been on the Board of the Institute for Spirituality and Health for twenty-five years, four of which she served as President. She was President of the Junior League of Houston and in 2007 was the recipient of the Adelaide Baker Award, given for continued volunteerism and leadership in the Houston community. She served as President of the Garden Club of Houston and was instrumental in her club establishing a lovely garden on the grounds of the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center. The Institute for Religion and Health named the Carolyn Clarke Caring Spirit Award in her honor.
She has served on the Boards of the YWCA, Neighborhood Centers and the Baylor Teen Health Clinic."
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Dr. Thomas B. Horvath
Dr. Horvath was appointed chief of staff of the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center on January 3, 1999. He serves as the most senior clinician in this tertiary care medical center. Dr. Horvath is also a professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Horvath is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, Australia (M.D., 1965), a member (1970), and fellow (1975) of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry (1978). He obtained clinical and research training in internal medicine/neurology, psychiatry, and psychophysiology at the University of Melbourne, Stanford University, and the Palo Alto VA Medical Center.
Dr. Horvath is a graduate of Leadership VA (1985), VA Executive Medicine, and the Chief of Staff Institute. He served on the President’s Health Care Reform Task Force, and on the Vision for Change Reorganization of the Veterans Health Administration. He has received leadership awards from the Association of Military Surgeon of the U.S., the National Association of VA Psychology and Psychiatry Leaders, the VA Chaplain Service, and the Readjustment Counseling Service. He is a recipient of the Americanism Medal of the Daughters of the American Revolution. He retired as a Lt. Colonel from the U.S. Army Reserve, Medical Corps."
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John Hawkins
John D. Hawkins has been a Principal with The Sterling Group, L.P., a private equity investment firm since 1999. Mr. Hawkins joined Sterling as an Associate in 1992. From 1986 to 1990, he was on the professional staff of Arthur Anderson & Co. Mr. Hawkins currently serves on the board of North American Energy Partners and on the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian School in Houston. Mr. Hawkins received a B.S.BA. in Accounting from the University of Tennessee and an M.B.A. with honors from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University."
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Renae Schumann PhD, RN
Renae Schumann joined the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Spirituality of Health since 2007. She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing and the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Program at The University of Texas health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Schumann has also served as a Congregational Health Nurse, and was the Director of Congregational Outreach for the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System until 2000.
Dr. Schumann is known for her ability to use existing resources creatively and to combine resources to produce the greatest effect, whether working from a congregational or academic perspective. She has been awarded multiple federal, state and local grants aimed at improving nursing curriculum and student retention."
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Barbara Schachtel - Green - Secretary
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Susan Josey
Susan Josey has been on the staff of St. John the Divine Episcopal Church for 7 years. She is on the Board of River Oaks Garden Club and The Junior League of Houston. Susan is the former director of Ministry, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church and active in many church ministries. She was Chairman of Dunlavy Guild Shop from 2005-2006 and Chairman of the Azalea Trail in 2005."
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Marvin Peterson – Legal Counsel
Civil and trial practice; Labor and Employment, Personal Injury, Admiralty and Transportation Law and Entertainment Law.
Bar Admissions include State Bar of Texas, September 21, 1967, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals - 5th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals - 11ath Circuit, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, U.S. District court, Eastern District of Texas and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas. His professional associates include: Phi Alpha Delta - Legal Fraternity, Houston Bar Association, Houston Bar Foundation, State Bar of Texas, Chairman, State Bar Grievance Committee, District 4 (1973-76), Houston Trial Lawyers Association, Industrial Relations Research Association, T.I.D.A. -Trucking Industry Defense Association, ABOTA - American Board of Trial Advocates. His organizations include: United Methodist Foundation Trustee, St. Paul's united Methodist church Board of Directors, Institute for Spirituality and Health, Holland Lodge AF/AM, Shriner and Scottish Rite."
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Lex Gillan - Director, Center for Professional Renewal
Lex Gillan has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for nearly 40 years. He has studied with world-class teachers including Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Father Thomas Keating, Andy Gold and James Ezelle, M.D. since the 1960s.
Mr. Gillan has been a full-time instructor since 1974 when he founded The Yoga Institute in Houston, Texas, one of the oldest yoga studio businesses in the country. Since its inception, he has taught more than 25,000 yoga classes, 100 ten day retreats and 300 meditation workshops.
Mr. Gillan now teaches, full-time, the Yoga Teacher Training and National Certification Course (YogaALLIANCE approved to 500 hours), is a founder and Trustee of Rose Mountain Retreat Center outside Las Vegas, New Mexico and is on the Faculty and is the Director of Development at The Institute for Spirituality and Health in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. He is also a partner and is on the Board of Directors of Brazos Bookstore in Houston. Mr. Gillan is degreed in Business Administration from Stephen F. Austin University (Texas) and spent five years as a commercial banker in Houston in the '60s."
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Rev. Dr. Charles R. Millikan
Dr. Charles Millikan is the Vice-President for Spiritual Care and Values Integration for The Methodist Hospital System of Houston. Born at The Methodist Hospital he has returned after serving as a parish pastor and as a member of the Bishop’s Cabinet in the Texas Annual Conference.
He received his Local Preacher’s License at 18 years of age in Houston, Texas. He was ordained to the Order of Deacon and later to the Order of Elder in 1969 and 1973 respectively. Dr. Millikan is a graduate of Southwestern University (TX) with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Philosophy in 1968; The Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University with a Masters of Theology degree in 1971; and Drew University with a Doctorate of Ministry degree in 1984.
He has served churches throughout the East Texas and Houston areas. Starting at New Caney and Porter in the early 1970s he moved on to St. Peter’s in Katy, Seabrook, and Galveston’s Moody Memorial Church before being appointed to the Bishop’s Cabinet in 2001 overseeing first the Palestine District in East Texas and later the Houston South District with its 45,000 members.
Honors awarded include Dr. Millikan’s has having been named the Distinguished Alumnus for Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology in 2000. As a member of Toastmasters International he was a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) and recognized as the Outstanding Club President and the Eastern Division Lt. Governor over District 25. While at Southwestern University he was named to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities and was the recipient of the David Knox Porter Award as being the most outstanding pre-theological student his senior year.
It was during his ministry at the Moody Church in Galveston that millions of dollars in grants were awarded to work and ministries throughout Texas and the world. Also, the Moody Church Permanent Endowment Fund Foundation more than tripled in size from $6M to 20M in the 8 years he was there as the Senior Pastor. It was during this time also that the Church expanded its facilities by an additional $11M and a new Moody House for residents in the Edgewater Methodist Retirement Community was built for $13M. Working closely with the Bishop of the Texas Annual Conference, The Board of Ordained Ministry, and Southern Methodist University, the Houston/Galveston Extension Program was added to the Perkins School of Theology, which increased the seminary’s enrollment overall by 20% and helped to cut short the shortage of Methodist clergy in Texas.
Dr. Millikan’s family includes his wife Laura and their three children and their spouses; Kevin and his wife Kelly and their daughter Kenedy in Fort Worth, Kristin her husband Wil in Austin; and Katy and her husband Neal in Los Angeles."
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Rabbi David Lyon
Rabbi David Lyon is a native of Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1984, with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. He began his studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Jerusalem in 1985. He earned his Master of Arts degree in Hebrew Letters in 1988 at HUC-JIR, Los Angeles, and was ordained Rabbi in 1990 at HUC-JIR, Cincinnati. Upon ordination, he served as Assistant Rabbi and Associate Rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas, 1990-1997. He served as Rabbi of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, East Lansing, Michigan, 1997-2000. He served as Rabbi of Temple Shalom, Dallas, Texas, 2000-2004. In June 2004, Rabbi Lyon returned to Congregation Beth Israel to serve as Senior Rabbi.
Since ordination, Rabbi Lyon has enjoyed the full complement of Rabbinic duties in the synagogue, especially preparing weekly messages on Shabbat, and teaching children and adults in the classroom and informal settings. In the Houston community, Rabbi Lyon is currently serving on the Board of Institute for Religious and Health, the Board of Trustees of the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast, the University of Houston Hillel Board and the Jewish National Fund. He served on the Houston Braes Interfaith Food Pantry Board, as President of the Houston Rabbinic Association; in East Lansing, he served on Sparrow Hospital's Home Health-Care Network Board, WKAR (PBS) Advisory Board; in Dallas, Rabbi Lyon served on the AJC Board, Dallas' Wise Academy Reform Jewish Day School Board, and as an honorary member of the Dallas Hebrew Free Loan Society Board. Rabbi Lyon is a member of the CCAR (Central Conference of America Rabbis) and has served on its Committee on Nominations. Rabbi Lyon can be heard on KODA 99.1, on Sunday mornings.
Rabbi David Lyon is married to Lisa, and they have four children."
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Rabbi Samuel E. Karff
Rabbi Samuel E. Karff became Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel in May 1999 after serving his congregation for twenty-four years as Senior Rabbi. Rabbi Karff is presently Associate Director of the John McGovern Center for Health, Humanities and the Human Spirit and Visiting Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, Texas. He has been a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University from 1977 to 2001. Rabbi Karff received an A. B. degree Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College and earned a doctorate from Hebrew Union College, the seminary which ordained him. He has contributed chapters on Judaism to a college text Religions of the World, which has been used on over 200 campuses here and abroad. He is the author of Agada: The Language of Jewish Faith, The Soul of the Rav, released in October 1999, and his most recent work Permission to Believe Finding Faith in Troubled Times, released by Abingdon Press in April 2005. He has contributed chapters to fourteen books and is a past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He has lectured extensively in this country and abroad.
In 1999 he became the Founder and Director of the Health and Human Spirit Program at the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, which in 2004 was expanded into the Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit.
At the Medical School Dr. Karff teaches courses that focus on the non-biomedical or spiritual dimensions of being a clinician who is also a healer. He is co-director of the Sacred Vocation program, an intervention for healthcare workers in hospital, clinic, or nursing home. The program is designed to help nourish their spirit and to discover that their work can be part of what gives meaning to their lives.
Rabbi Karff is on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Religion and Health, Texas Medical Center-Houston; The Coalition for Mutual Respect, Anti-Defamation League; and is a former member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees for the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast."
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Rabbi Roy A. Walter
Rabbi Roy A. Walter was born in 1942, in Memphis, Tennessee. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, and Bachelor and Master of Hebrew Letters degrees from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. In 1970, he was ordained a Rabbi. In 1995, he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
From the seminary, Rabbi Walter came directly to Congregation Emanu El of Houston, Texas, to serve as Assistant Rabbi. In 1974 he was named Associate Rabbi, and in 1978, Senior Rabbi.
Rabbi Walter has served locally on the Boards of the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, Houston Metropolitan Ministries, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League and as President of the Houston Rabbinic Association.
Rabbi Walter is on the faculty of St. Thomas University under the auspices of the Jewish Chautauqua Society. He presently serves on the Board of the Institute for Religion and Health and served on the Search Committee for the new Director; and also serves on the Faith Community Work Group of the Mental Health Association; and is a Board member at both the Dominic Walsh Dance Troupe and the AIDS Foundation.
He is a past president of the Southwest Association of Reform Rabbis. He has served on the Board of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, as a member of the Rabbinic Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal and on the Executive Board and the Liturgy Committee of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of Governors and Board of Rabbinic Overseers of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He served two years as the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) representative to the Joint Commission on Social Action between the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) and the CCAR, served as the Co-Chair of the Rabbinic Alumni Endowment Campaign of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Rabbi Walter served as President of Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston, Inc. from 1996-1998 and has been named Life Board Member. He served on the Search for Executive Director Committee; and Chairs the Fundraising Campaign for the Kid’s Meals program. For two years, he chaired the Planning, Evaluation and Assessment Task Force.
In 1995 Rabbi Walter served on the Blue Ribbon Committee for Hiring Practices of the Houston Independent School District. He was the rabbinic co-chair of the Commission of Jewish Continuity for the Jewish community of Greater Houston.
Rabbi Walter is the co-author of Gates of Prayer for Young People published by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He is co-author of My Prayers: A Children’s Book of Prayers for Everyday Occasions. He also served as Chair of the Poetry Selection Committee of the CCAR. That Committee chose poems that were published in the 50th Anniversary Edition of the CCAR Journal from all poems published in past CCAR Journals.
Rabbi Walter is married to the former Linda Cohn of Cincinnati, Ohio. They have three children, Benjamin, Michel, and Aaron and one grandchild, Ethan."
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Dr. Faber McMullen
Dr. McMullen was on the active staff of Hermann Hospital, is currently on the Courtesy staff at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and on the staff at Park Plaza Hospital. His professional administrative organizations and appointments include: Harris County Medical Society which he is presently on and many other Harris County Medical Society Boards. He is presently on the Professional Scientific Organizations which include, American College of Physicians Fellowship and American College of Cardiology Fellowship. He has p[resented at State and National Conventions which include: American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, Texas Medical Association and Texas Medical Association Internal Medicine. His Teaching Appointments include Clinical Professor in the Program of Internal Medicine School at Houston, Clinical Assistant Professor and the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His Awards consist of Alpha Epsilon Delta Honorary Premedical Organization, Baylor University, Beta Beta Beta Honorary Biological Organization, Baylor University, Alpha Chi Honor Graduate of Baylor University in Waco Texas and Osler Society, Baylor University College of Medicine, Awarded winning paper and presentation 1955 Violet H. Keiller Award, Outstanding Resident, Hermann Hospital. His Community Service include Charity Clinic Service Hermann Hospital, Charity Clinic Service Staff, Houston Chamber of Commerce Membership Committee, Visiting Nurses Association, Medical Advisory Committee and Institute for Religion and Health Board Member since 2007."
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Bonnie Weekley
Bonnie Weekley is a native Houstonian and received her degree from Trinity University in Education in Hearing Impared. She is married to David Weekley and has 3 children. Her involvement is in Non-Profit Boardsin Houston (with various positions and duties) which include: The Chinquapin School, the Houston Food Bank, Camp for All, Young Life, The Houston Zoo and the Institute for Spirituality and Health."
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Trained as a U.S. historian, W. Andrew Achenbaum has spent most of his career applying the lessons of the past to current policy-relevant issues concerning the physical, social, and spiritual well-being of older Americans. He is the author of five books (most recently, Older Americans, Vital Communities [Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005]) and co-editor of eleven others. A past chair of the National Council on the Aging and secretary of the Gerontological Society of America, Achenbaum was founding dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston, where he currently teaches in the Graduate College of Social Work and the Honors College. Achenbaum currently serves as chair of the Gerson David Consortium on Aging, which collaborates with the McGovern Center on Medicine and Ethics, the Rothko Chapel, and the Interfaith Consortium on Aging.
Besides lecturing at ISH, Andy is currently composing two books at the Institute: one, with Rick Moody, discusses changes in social insurance and environmental reform that Baby Boomers may make between 2010 and 2030 in Leaving a Legacy. The other is a collection of Spiritual Healers, biographies of older Americans whose lives were transformed in touching the lives of others."
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Jon G. Allen, PhD
Jon G. Allen holds the Helen Malsin Palley Chair in Mental Health Research and is Professor of Psychiatry in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine and a Senior Staff Psychologist in The Menninger Clinic. Dr. Allen received his B.A. degree in psychology at the University of Connecticut and his Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology at the University of Rochester. He completed postdoctoral training in clinical psychology at The Menninger Clinic. He conducts psychotherapy, diagnostic psychological testing, consultations, psychoeducational programs, and research, specializing in trauma-related disorders and depression. He has taught and supervised students at the University of Rochester, Northern Illinois University, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, and Washburn University of Topeka. He is past editor of the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, associate editor of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, a member of the editorial board of Psychiatry, and serves as a reviewer for several professional journals and book publishers. He is the author of Coping with Trauma: Hope through Understanding and Coping with Depression: From Catch-22 to Hope published by American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. He is also author of Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders, published by John Wiley and Sons, and coauthor of and Restoring Hope and Trust: An illustrated Guide to Mastering Trauma, published by the Sidran Institute. He is also coauthor of Borderline Personality Disorder: Tailoring the Therapy to the Patient and coeditor of Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative Disorders and Contemporary Treatment of Psychosis: Healing Relationships in the ‘Decade of the Brain. He has authored and coauthored numerous professional articles and book chapters on trauma- related problems, depression, psychotherapy, hospital treatment, the therapeutic alliance, psychological testing, neuropsychology, and emotion. He is also a jazz pianist and composer. "
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Harvey Aronson, PhD
Harvey Aronson is a licensed therapist in private practice, meditation teacher and translator with many years of involvement in Buddhist studies and meditation and is a founding director of Dawn Mountain.
He has been a student of Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche since 1973 and received teaching authorization from him in 1995; a student of Adzom Paylo Rinpoche since 2000, has also studied extensively with a number of prominent Geluk and Dzogchen teachers in India, Nepal and the U.S. He has also studied extensively with Theravada teachers, especially Sri Satya Narain Goenka.
He received his PhD. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin and an MSW from Boston University.
Harvey is the author of Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism and Buddhist Practice on Western Ground."
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Eduardo Bruera, M.D.
Dr. Bruera obtained his medical degree from the University of Rosario, in Argentina. He trained in Medical Oncology and relocated to the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada where he directed the clinical and academic palliative care programs until 1999.
In 1999 Dr. Bruera relocated to The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center where he currently holds the F. T. McGraw Chair in the Treatment of Cancer and is the Chair of the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine.
Dr. Bruera's main clinical interest is the care of the physical and psychosocial distress of patients with advanced cancer and the support of their families. He developed and led, for the first five years of operations, the Edmonton Regional and Palliative Care program. This unique program provides access to palliative care to more than 85% of patients who die of cancer in the Edmonton Region. He also developed and leads the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center since 1999.
Dr. Bruera has been interested in the development of palliative care programs internationally, particularly in the developing world where he helped in the establishment of numerous palliative care programs in the Latin American region, India, and different areas of Europe. Dr. Bruera acted as the President of the International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care for a period of four years ending in January 2006.
Over the last 20 years Dr. Bruera has trained hundreds of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals in the different aspects of the clinical delivery of palliative care. He established the first academic fellowship in palliative care at the University of Alberta in Canada and one of the first academic palliative care fellowships in the United States at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Dr. Bruera has more than 700 publications and has edited twelve books. He has given more than 500 major invited lectures.
Dr. Bruera has received a number of national and international awards including the Lane Adams Quality of Life Award. The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians has recently established the “Eduardo Bruera Award” as a career award for palliative care specialists.
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Bonnie Weekley is a native Houstonian and received her degree from Trinity University in Education in Hearing Impared. She is married to David Weekley and has 3 children. Her involvement is in Non-Profit Boardsin Houston (with various positions and duties) which include: The Chinquapin School, the Houston Food Bank, Camp for All, Young Life, The Houston Zoo and the Institute for Spirituality and Health."
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Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D.
Dr. Cohen is an associate professor at M. D Anderson Cancer Center and Director of the Integrative Medicine Program. His primary faculty appointment is in the Dept. of Behavioral Science, with a joint appointment as in the Division of Cancer Medicine, and he serves as Chief of the Section of Integrative Medicine in the Dept. of Palliative Care & Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr. Cohen also has a cross appointment at the UT School of Public Health in the Department of Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Cohen is a founding member and Officer of the Society for Integrative Oncology.
Dr. Cohen is currently conducting a number of NlH4unded and non4unded randomized controlled clinical trials examining the biobehavioral effects of psychosocial interventions aimed at reducing the negative aspects of cancer treatment and improving quality of life (e.g., meditation, stress management, emotional writing, yoga, music therapy). He is particularly interested in examining different types of complementary programs that can be easily incorporated into conventional treatment to decrease the psychophysiological sequelae associated with treatment. Dr. Cohen has worked and published in the areas of psychosocial oncology, quality of life, stress, and psychoneuroimmunology. He recently received a large center grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct collaborative research projects with Fudan University Cancer Hospital in Shanghai, China that will explore the use of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for cancer. "
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Thomas R. Cole, Ph.D.
Thomas R. Cole is the Beth and Toby Grossman Professor and Director of the McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. He is also a Professor of Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. Cole graduated from Yale University (B.A. Philosophy, 1971), Wesleyan University (M.A., History, 1975) and the University of Rochester, (Ph.D., History, 1981).
Dr. Cole has published many articles and several books on the history of aging and humanistic gerontology. His book The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America (Cambridge University Press, 1992) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is senior editor of What Does It Mean to Grow Old? (Duke, 1986), the Handbook of Humanities and Aging (Springer, 1992, 2 edition 1999) and Voices and Visions: Toward a Critical Gerontology (Springer, 1993). The New Yorker noted his co-edited Oxford Book of Aging as one of the most memorable books of 1995. His most recent co-edited book is Practicing the Medical Humanities (2003).
Cole's interest in the life stories of older people has taken him into biography and film-making. In 1984, he encountered a hospitalized psychiatric patient who claimed he was the “original Texas integration leader.” While psychiatrists focused on the diagnosis, Cole embarked on a decade-long journey to recover the patient's story. The result was a book—No Color Is My Kind: the Life of Eldrewey Steams and the Desegregation of Houston (1997) — and an accompanying film, “The Strange Demise of Jim Crow”, broadcast nationally on over 60 PBS stations and internationally by the State Department. The documentary received numerous awards and was nominated for a regional Emmy and a National Humanities Medal.
Cole's most recent film, Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy, was an official selection at the Doubletake Documentary Film festival in April 2002. This work explores the special yet unstated relationship between medical students in the anatomy lab and the people who donate their bodies for dissection. In 2001, Cole's writing workshop program for elders was featured in the PBS documentary Life Stories. Both films probe relationships between present and past, the living and the dead as crucibles of moral and spiritual development. Cole is co-producing a film about individuals and families recovering from stroke, while launching a project to study and support people frightened about memory loss and/or diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in advance of clinical symptoms.
Cole's work has been featured in the New York Times, National Public Radio, Voice of America, PBS, and at the United Nations. He serves as an advisor to the United Nations NGO Committee on Ageing, the Union for Reform Judaism's Department of Family Concerns, and various editorial and foundation boards. In 2004-2005, he served as a consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics project on aging, recently released in print as Taking Care."
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Dan Dunlap, Ph.D.
Dr. Dunlap arrived at the Houston Graduate School of Theology only last July (2004) and has already proven himself to a viable member of the Administrative Staff and an outstanding leader of the HGST Faculty. Dr. Dunlap was first ordained a Deacon in 1990 by the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, Reformed, Episcopal Church, USA and in 1995 became an Ordained Presbyter by the Southern Diocese of the Free Church of England, United Kingdom.
Dr. Dunlap's strong educational background provides a tremendous backdrop for his work here at HGST. His Ph.D. was earned at Wycliffe Hall of Oxford University in 2001 with his Thesis title being Liturgy, Eucharist, and Holy Spirit: Pneumatology in the Anglican Liturgical Tradition (16 th -20 th centuries) . Other graduate studies were done at Drew University Graduate School (1992-93) and the Biblical Theological Seminary of Hatfield, PA (1986-92) receiving a Master of Divinity and Master of Arts (New Testament Exegesis) degrees. Dr. Dunlap's Bachelor work was done at The Pennsylvania State University and Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture.
Past teaching posts include: Andrews Hall, Phoenix, AZ (in collaboration with Cranmer Theological House) as Professor of Theology and Worship; Cranmer Theological House, Houston, TX (Dean/Principal); Cranmer Theological House, Shreveport, LA as Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Professor of Pastoral and Liturgical Theology; Central School of Religion, London, United Kingdom; Exeter Martyrs Theological Seminary, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; Philadelphia Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA and the Biblical Theological Seminary, Hatfield, PA.
Dr. Dunlap's pastoral experience include All Saints Reformed Episcopal Church of Shreveport, LA, Christchurch, Free Church of England, Exeter, United Kingdom, Grace Chapel Reformed Episcopal, Philadelphia, PA, Christ Church, Presbyterian Church in America, Chalfont, PA and Trinity Presbyterian Church in America, Harrisburg, PA. Dr. Dunlap is currently in the process of being received as a minister in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas of the Episcopal Church, USA.
Dr. Dunlap and his wife Donna reside in suburban Spring, Texas with their three children. They are members of St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Northwest Houston."
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Robert J. Hesse, Ph.D.
Co-founder/President, Contemplative Outreach (CO) Network dedicated to interdenominational Christian contemplative prayer. Inspired at Gethsemani Trappist monastery, at the time home to Thomas Merton. Appointed by Trappist monk Thomas Keating, Commissioned Presenter/Co-coordinator, CO Ltd. and Emissary to the M&L Institute for research on contemplatives, in response to an invitation by The Dalai Lamai to Keating. Faculty, Institute for Spirituality and Health and Instructor, Rice University. Ordained Catholic Deacon, Galveston-Houston Archdiocese; member, Deacon Spiritual Life Committee; Retreat Master, Holy Name Retreat Center; founding Advisor, The WorkFaith Connection; Speaker, Rothko Chapel, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; and Bowen Center, and Co-founder, Faith-Science Initiative, University of St. Thomas (UST). Interests include the convergence of science and religion: physics-metaphysics, chemistry-life, biology-consciousness, and psychology-mysticism. Special interest in healing suffering from mental illness. Has given numerous presentations internationally. Holds a B.Th. in theology from UST and a B.S. in Chemistry and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from St. Louis University. President/Founder, energy consulting company HEI; traveled to over 60 countries often establishing international consortia.
Contact Information
Phone: 281-752-9786
Email: bjhesse@comcast.net"
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Keith A. Jenkins, Ph.D.
Born August 21 , 1 953 in Houston, Texas
Raised in Houston, Texas
Currently live in WillowbrooklCharnpions area of NW Houston
Family
Married Barbara Parker Jenkins of El Campo, Texas, June 1 , 1974
Son, Allen Jenkins (Senior, Southwestern University)
Daughter, Emily Jenkins (Senior, Cy Creek High School)
Education
B.A., Southwestern University cum laude, Georgetown, Texas, 1975
M.Div., Duke University summa curn laude, Durham, North Carolina, 1978
M.A., Ph.D., Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1990, 1993
Conference Relationship
Ordained Deacon in 1976
Ordained Elder in 1979
Previous Positions in Higher Education
Chaplain, Eon Morris College, Jacksonville, Texas
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Eon Morris College, Jacksonville, Texas
Executive Vice President & Dean of the Faculty, Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens, TN
Chaplain, Berry College, Rome, Georgia
Current Position
President and Professor of Religion & Literature, Houston Graduate School of Theology
Immediately before coming to HGST in June 2003, served for 5 years as Senior Associate Pastor at John Wesley UMC, Houston"
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Tracy X. Karner, PhD
Tracy Xavia Karner is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston . A widely published sociologist, Professor Karner is also the founder and director of the University of Houston 's ground-breaking interdisciplinary Visual Studies program and a leading authority on the construction of the self: the process through which individuals and groups explore, define, express, and transform their identities.
Her interest in self-construction, self-delineation, and self-disclosure has led her to explore such diverse topics as how veterans use television and cinematic images to understand their experience and how artists' gender influences the reception and interpretation of their art. A nationally-known expert in the field of medical sociology, Professor Karner has written widely on how individuals experience illness and strategies by which care can be delivered in more culturally accessible and appropriate ways.
The recipient of an award from the American Sociological Association, numerous teaching awards and of more than $2.7 million in grants to support her research projects, Professor Karner is the co-author of a popular sociology textbook, and the author of more than 30 articles in such professional journals as The American Sociologist, The American Studies Journal, Clinical Sociology Review, Communication and Cognition, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The Journal of Aging and Mental Health, The Journal of Aging and Social Policy, The Journal of Aging Studies, The Journal of Applied Gerontology, masculinities, Qualitative Health Research, and Symbolic Interactionism.
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Anne Carolyn Klein, Ph.D.
Anne Carolyn Klein is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and the founding director and resident teacher at Dawn Mountain, has practiced, studied and translated extensively in three of the five Tibetan traditions; her main practice and transmission lineages are through Ketsun Sangpo Rinpoche of Nepal, and Adzom Paylo Rinpoche of Sichuan; under their direction she has completed a variety of personal retreats in the US and Asia.
She has been a practicing Buddhist and student of Buddhist thought since 1971, when she studied with Kensur Ngawang Lekden, then 70 years old, the last Abbot of the Tantric College of Lower Lhasa. She has also studied extensively with a number of prominent Geluk and Dzogchen teachers in India, Nepal and the U.S including (in chronological order) Geshe Wangyal, Lati Rinpoche, Geshe Rabten, Denma Locho Rinpoche, Loling Kensur Yeshey Thupten, Lama Gompo Tsayden, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, Tulkku Thondup, Lobon Tenzin Namdak, and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
After graduating from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) cum laude with Highest Honors in English, she earned her M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin and her PhD. in Religious/Tibetan Studies from the University of Virginia. Following this she was awarded a Teaching and Research post-doc at Harvard Divinity School as a Research Associate in Women's Studies and the History of Religion. Her books include Meeting the Great Bliss Queen, Path to the Middle and Knowledge and Liberation."
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Jeffrey J. Kripal, Ph.D.
J. Newton Rayzor Professor and Chair of Religious Studies
Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 1993
Areas of Teaching
Primary: comparative erotics and ethics of mystical literature, Hinduism, psychoanalysis and religion, method and theory in the study of religion
Secondary: Hindu and Buddhist Tantra in America, Western esotericism, the New Age
Current Research: history of Esalen Institute, American cultural and counter-cultural translations of Hindu and Buddhist Tantric traditions
Jeffrey J. Kripal is the J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is the author of Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism (Chicago, 2001) and Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna (Chicago, 1995).
He has also co-edited volumes with Glenn W. Shuck on the history of Esalen and the American counter culture, On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture (Indiana, 2005); with Rachel Fell McDermott on a popular Hindu goddess, Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West (California, 2003); with G. William Barnard on the ethical critique of mystical traditions, Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism (Seven Bridges, 2002); and with T.G. Vaidyanathan of Bangalore, India, on the dialogue between psychoanalysis and Hinduism, Vishnu on Freud's Desk: A Reader in Psychoanalysis and Hinduism (Oxford, 1999).
His areas of interest include the comparative erotics and ethics of mystical literature, American counter-cultural translations of Hindu and Buddhist Tantric traditions, and the history of Western esotericism from ancient gnosticism to the New Age. He is presently writing a "nonordinary history" of the Esalen Institute, the human potential center in Big Sur, California."
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Dr. Lomax is Associate Chairman and Director of Educational Programs in the Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. He received his B.A. from Rice University in 1967 Magna Cum Laude and his M.D. with honors from Baylor College of Medicine in 1971. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. His internship in internal medicine at the University of Oregon. Portland VAR was followed by a residency in general psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine where he served as chief resident. Dr. Lomax completed psychoanalytic training in 1986 at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (HGPI) . He was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor in 1989 and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at HGPI in 1998. Dr. Lomax is former president of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is former president of the Houston Psychiatric Society and served on the Executive Board of the Rice University Alumni Association. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Institute of Religion at the Texas Medical Center. Dr. Lomax has served both on the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry and the Part I (Testwriting) Committee of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Lomax served five years as Chairman of Baylor's Graduate Medical Education Committee (which has oversight responsibility for more than 1,200 residents in 78 ACGME accredited and 61 nonaccredited, subspecialty residency programs) . He is Vice Chair of Baylor's Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee. Dr. Lomax's clinical interests are in psychoanalytic treatment of anxiety, mood, and personality disorders. His scholarly interests include the interface between religion, spirituality, and healing from a psychiatric and psychoanalytic perspective."
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Amy L. McGuire, JD, PhD
Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D. is an assistant professor of medicine and medical ethics with the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine. She received her B.A. in psychology, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in December 1995, her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Houston in 2000, and her Ph.D. in medical humanities, with distinction, from the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2004. Dr. McGuire's research interests focus on legal and ethical issues in research involving human subjects. She is particularly interested in issues of informed consent and confidentiality in human genome sequencing research. Her research is funded by NIH (1 R01 HG004333-01), Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics, and a Baylor College of Medicine Basic and Clinical Collaborative Research Grant. Dr. McGuire is a member of the Personalized Health Care Working Group (PHC) for the American Health Information Community (AHIC), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC HIT), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and is co-chair of the Confidentiality, Privacy, and Security Sub-group. She is also a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), Working Group on Participant and Data Protection (PDP) for the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN) and is on the advisory board for the X Prize in Genomics and Darwin2009.
Dr. McGuire's responsibilities at Baylor include directing and teaching the first-year medical student ethics course, teaching medical and pediatric residents, and serving on several committees, including the ethics committees at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and The Ben Taub General Hospital, the Baylor Institutional Review Board, and the Baylor Curriculum Committee."
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Susan M. Miller, MD, MPH
Susan M. Miller, MD, MPH, is Research Associate Professor in the College of Technology at the University of Houston, and is Honorary Faculty at the Siberian Medical University in Tomsk, Siberia. She received her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and completed her internship and residence in Family Practice at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. She holds a Master's of Public Health from the UT School of Public Health.
Dr. Miller's research interests include women's health, international medicine, medical ethics, and HIV. She was Medical Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the NIH's landmark Women's health Initiative study at Baylor College of Medicine. For six years Dr. Miller was the Medical Director of Houston's Thomas Street Clinic, the first free-standing AIDS clinic in the United States. For her work with HIV-infected patients, Dr. Miller received the Macadory Humanitarian Award in 1993. Her past Appointments include Director of the George W. Zeluff Section of International Medicine, Associate Chief of the Department of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics, all at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Miller is one of the 'Best Doctors in America,' an honor that was voted her by her peers."
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William B. Parsons, Ph.D.
The son of an Episcopal missionary, William B. Parsons grew up in Kyoto, Japan, Berkeley, CA, and Cambridge, MA. He received his M.Div from Yale University and Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He is erstwhile Chair and Associate Professor of Religious studies at Rice University. He is the author of The Enigma of the Oceanic Feeling, Religion and Psychology: Mapping the Terrain, and several articles in leading journals. He is also area editor in the psychology of religion for Religious Studies Review. He works in the fields of comparative mysticism and religion and the social sciences, and is presently completing a manuscript entitled Mourning Religion."
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Lois M. Ramondetta, M.D.
Associate Professor of Gynecologic Oncology
Associate Professor and Director, Division of Gynecologic
Oncology, The University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston
In addition to her joint appointments, Dr. Ramondetta is a partner in the M. D. Anderson Gynecologic Oncology Associates with privileges and patient care duties at Memorial Hermann Hospital , Women's Hospital of Texas , St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, and Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital . She is a key member of the M. D. Anderson Outreach Program, which provides quality cancer care at regional medical centers, and trains fellows, residents, and medical students in the field of gynecologic oncology. She is presently chairperson of the Harris County Hospital District Cancer Committee.
Dr. Ramondetta's research interests include clinical trials in endometrial and cervical cancer with an emphasis on bringing these trials to the under-served Harris County population. She is currently the Principal Investigator or co-PI for several clinical and psycho-social trials at M. D. Anderson and Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital , and has been integral in bringing these trials to the community through the outreach program. She also focuses her research on physician-patient communication, biomedical ethics, and the effect of spirituality during cancer treatment, and quality of life.
Dr. Ramondetta is an American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists Fellow, and a member of the American Association of Cancer Research, the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, the Felix Rutledge Society, the Houston Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, the International Gynecologic Oncology Group, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She has written and co-authored numerous journal articles and abstracts on endometrial and cervix cancer as well as on spirituality and physician-patient communication. She has received numerous honors and awards including Best Abstract Award, Community Service Award, and Faculty Recognition Award for Dedication to Patient Care and Resident Teaching at Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital , and the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Clinical Fellows' Research Award."
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Alma Rodriguez
Dr. Maria Alma Rodriguez received her medical degree from the University of Texas at Houston, and did her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio Texas. She trained as a cancer specialist at the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson, Arizona. She has been a clinician and clinical investigator at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center since 1986. Her expertise is in the treatment of patients with lymphomas. She's published articles, authored book chapters, and co-edited a book on the treatment of lymphomas. She's served on numerous committees at the Institution, including the Institutional Review Board, and the Clinical Ethics Committee. She currently serves on the Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee for the FDA, and the Ethics Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. She is Vice-President of Medical Affairs, at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Click here to view her curriculum vita"
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function materson() {
document.getElementById("trustees-text").innerHTML = " Richard Materson - President/CEO
Richard S. Materson, M.D. is Clinical Full Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of medicine and UT Medical School at Houston.. He retired from Memorial Hermann Healthcare System in July 2005 where he had served as Corporate Medical Vice -President. His responsibilities included Wellness, Mind-Body Medicine, Integrated Medicine, Post Acute Care and the Spiritual Leadership Institute. He was Sr. VP and Medical Director of the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC from 1990-1997. He is a former President of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Founder and 1st President of the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Education and Research Foundation (PMR-ERF). He has been honored as a Schachtel Lecturer, the Walter Zeiter Lecturer, and has received a Distinguished Public Service Award from the AAPM&R. He has served many organizations as officer or Board member including ten years at he Institute for Religion and Health where he was previous Board Chair. He was a member of and Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for PM&R and has had teaching appointments at multiple institutions. He has over 250 invited lectures and presentations and is an author of multiple books, chapters and papers. His major clinical interest has been axiology in the treatment of chronic pain and the intersection of spirituality and medical science."
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