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For more information contact:
Email: hcsbkl@gwumc.edu
Phone: (202) 994-6220
Spirituality and Health Care Graduate Certificate Program
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Beverly Lunsford
, PhD, RN
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Phone: (202) 994-6223
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Program Director
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I am thrilled to be part of the Health Sciences faculty for two reasons. First, I am able to pursue scholarly work in advocating for the importance of spirituality to the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities; as well as to our own ability to be caring and compassionate health- care providers. Second, health care provided by interdisciplinary teams is critical to providing high quality and continuous health care. I believe that when we conduct education and research in interdisciplinary settings, we are more likely to recognize our strengths and contributions as an interdisciplinary team of health-care providers.
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Christina Puchalski
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Phone: (202) 496-6409
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Faculty
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I firmly believe that the way to reform healthcare is to recognize that spirituality is an essential element of healthcare and that compassionate and high quality healthcare is based on the spiritual values of service and love. For over fifteen years at GW, I have been developing creative, scholarly, and practical models of interdisciplinary spiritual care and teaching future clinicians and leaders in healthcare to integrate spirituality fully into their clinical practices. My passion is my clinical work and my teaching. My patients are my teachers and my students are the agents of change for creating better and more compassionate systems of care.
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Ed O'Donnell
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Faculty
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Being part of the faculty for the Spirituality and Health Care Graduate Certificate Program offers me the opportunity to interact with health care professionals and others in relation to the growth and development of spirituality in everyday life. As we all know from experience, the different stages of our lives offer us differing challenges for growth. But as we also know, growth is not a given. There can be times when we resist change and growth and other times when we embrace it. By studying the dynamics of spiritual development, we can understand both ourselves and those we care for. This understanding will make us to walk with those we care for in the difficult times of their lives.
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