Edited by Mark Cobb, Clinical Director and Senior Chaplain, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Christina Puchalski, Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Director, The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish), USA, and Bruce Rumbold, Director, Palliative Care Unit,, Department of Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia
Mark Cobb is a Senior Chaplain and a Clinical Director at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and holds honorary academic posts at the University of Sheffield and the University of Liverpool. He has a multidisciplinary education across science and the humanities and has experience working in the community, voluntary and acute health sectors.
Christina M. Puchalski is founding Director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) in Washington, D.C. and a Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University. Dr. Puchalski is a pioneer and leader in the movement to integrate spirituality into healthcare in both the clinical setting and in medical education. Her work continues to break ground in the clinical, academic, and pastoral understanding of spiritual care as an essential element of healthcare. She is an active clinician, board certified in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care. Her accolades include the 2009 George Washington University Distinguished Alumni Award and 2011 Outstanding Colleague Award from the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is also a member of the contemplative Carmelite lay community. Dr. Puchalski has authored many publications and been featured in numerous print and television media.
Bruce Rumbold is Director of the Palliative Care Unit at La Trobe University, where his responsibilities include coordinating health promoting palliative care and spiritual care academic programs alongside developing public health approaches to end of life care. His multidisciplinary interests are supported by postgraduate qualifications in physics, practical theology and health social science. Prior to joining La Trobe he was from 1986-2002 foundation professor of pastoral studies at Whitley College, an affiliated teaching institution of the Melbourne College of Divinity. Social determinants of end of life experience, and spiritual care, are the particular focus of his current wor
Hisham Abu-Raiya
Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University (ISR)
Lodovico Balducci
Medical Director of Affiliates and Referring Physician Relations and Program leader of Senior Adult Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center and Professor of Oncologic Sciences at the University of South Florida College of Medicine (USA)
Rodger K. Bufford
Professor of Psychology, George Fox University, Oregon (USA)
Stephen Bullivant
Lecturer in Theology and Ethics, School of Theology, Philosophy, and History, St Mary's University College, Twickenham (UK)
Laurie A. Burke
Department of Psychology, University of Memphis (USA)
Arndt Büssing
Professor of Quality of Life, Spirituality and Coping, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke (DEU)
Lindsay B. Carey
Lecturer and Research Fellow in Public Health, Bioethics and Pastoral Care, Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University; RAAF Chaplain, Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF Base Williams, Victoria; Director of Australian and New Zealand Chaplaincy Utility Research, Melbourne (AUS)
Nathan Carlin
Assistant Professor in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (USA)
Harvey M. Chochinov
Professor of Psychiatry, Community Health Sciences, and Family Medicine (Division of Palliative Care), University of Manitoba, and Director of the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, CancerCare Manitoba (CAN)
Mark Cobb
Sr. Chaplain and Clinical Director at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Research Fellow, Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group, University of Liverpool; Honorary Lecturer, University of Sheffield (UK)
Jeffrey Cohen
Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales (AUS)
Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Professor Emeritus of Judaism at the University of Wales; Visiting Professor at St Mary's University College, London, and Honorary Professor at the University of Aberystwyth (UK)
Thomas Cole
McGovern Chair in Medical Humanities and founding Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston (USA)
Grace Davie
Professor of Sociology emeritus, University of Exeter (UK)
Douglas J. Davies
Professor in the Study of Religion and Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies, Durham University (UK)
Catherine del Ferraro
Sr. Research Specialist, Nursing Research and Education at City of Hope Medical Center in Los Angeles (USA)
Prakash N. Desai
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)
Jaklin Eliott
Social Scientist, Cancer Council Australia, and Affiliate Lecturer, Discipline of Public
Health, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, The University of Adelaide (AUS)
Jacqueline Ellis
Research Associate, Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group, University of Liverpool (UK)
Gary B. Ferngren
Professor, Department of History, Oregon State University (USA)
Betty Ferrell
Professor, Nursing Research and Education at City of Hope Medical Center in Los Angeles (USA)
George Fitchett
Associate Professor and Director of Research, Department of Religion, Health and Human Values at Rush University (USA)
Patricia Fosarelli
Associate Dean, The Ecumenical Institute of Theology, St. Mary's Seminary & University, Baltimore (USA)
Gregory Fricchione
Director Division of Psychiatry and Medicine and the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (USA)
Fiona Gardner
Senior Lecturer, Social Work and Social Policy, School of Rural Health, La Trobe University (AUS)
Catherine F. Garlid
Director of Spiritual Care and Clinical Pastoral Education, Maine Medical Center (USA)
Kathleen Gregory
Lecturer and Course Convenor, Department of Counselling and Psychological Health, School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University (AUS)
James L. Griffith
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Interim Chair and Director, Psychiatry Residency Training, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, The George Washington University Medical Centre (USA)
George Handzo
Senior Consultant for Chaplaincy Care Leadership & Practice, HealthCare Chaplaincy, New York (USA)
Nigel Hartley
Director of Supportive Care, St Christopher's Hospice, London (UK)
Graham Harvey
Reader in Religious Studies, Open University (UK)
Paul Heelas
Senior Research Professor in Sociology of Contemporary Spirituality, Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (NLD)
Margaret Holloway
Professor of Social Work, University of Hull; Social Care Lead, National End of Life Care Programme (UK)
Brandon Horn
Deputy Director of the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Acupuncture Program;
Professor at Yosan University; Faculty at UCLA School of Medicine (USA)
Rosalie Hudson
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Nursing and Social Work, University of Melbourne (AUS)
David J. Hufford
Senior Fellow in Brain, Mind and Healing, the Samueli Institute; University Professor Emeritus, Penn State College of Medicine; Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Marek Jantos
Director, Behavioural Medicine Institute of Australia (AUS)
Michael Kearney
Medical Director of Palliative Care Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Associate Medical Director at Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (USA)
Ewan Kelly
Senior Lecturer, School of Divinity, The University of Edinburgh and Programme Director for Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care, NHS Education for Scotland (UK)
Russell Kirkland
Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, University of Georgia (USA)
Emmanuel Y. Lartey
Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling, Candler School of Theology, Emory University (USA)
Mari Lloyd-Williams
Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Professor and Director of the Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group at the University of Liverpool (UK)
Elizabeth MacKinlay
Director, Centre for Ageing & Pastoral Studies, St Mark's National Theological Centre, Professor School of Theology Charles Sturt University, Canberra (AUS)
Alister E. McGrath
Professor of Theology, Ministry and Education, and Head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture at King's College, London (UK)
Wilfred McSherry
Professor in Dignity of Care for Older People Staffordshire University and Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (UK)
Robert A. Neimeyer
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis (USA)
Shamim Nejad
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA)
Holly Nelson-Becker
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago (USA)
Eleanor Nesbitt
Professor Emerita, Institute of Education,
University of Warwick (UK)
Graham Oppy
Professor, Philosophy Department, Monash University (AUS)
Raymond F. Paloutzian
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Westmont College, Santa Barbara (USA)
Kenneth I. Pargament
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Bowling Green State University (USA)
Edmund Pellegrino
John Carroll Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Interim Director, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University (USA)
Neil Pembroke
Senior Lecturer, The School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics, The University of Queensland (AUS)
Martyn Percy
Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon and the Oxford Ministry Course, Professor of Theological Education at King's College London, and Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College London (UK)
Christina M. Puchalski
Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, Washington, DC (USA)
Linda Ross
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health, Sport and Science, University of Glamorgan (UK)
Susan A. Ross
Professor of Theology and a Faculty Scholar at Loyola University Chicago (USA)
Bruce Rumbold
Director, Palliative Care Unit, School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, La Trobe University (AUS)
Abdulaziz Sachedina
Frances Myers Ball Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia (USA)
Kevin S. Seybold
Professor of Psychology, Grove City College, Pennsylvania (USA)
Shane Sinclair
Postdoctoral Fellow, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, University of Manitoba; Spiritual Care Coordinator, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta Health Services; Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Calgary (CAN)
Peter Speck
Researcher, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, King's College London (UK)
Trevor Stammers
Program Director, Bioethics and Medical Law, St Mary's University College, Twickenham (UK)
Henry W. Strobel
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston (USA)
Margaret L. Stuber
Vice Chair for Education in Psychiatry and Daniel X. Freedman Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
Mary Pat Sullivan
Senior Lecturer, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University (UK)
Daniel P. Sulmasy
Kilbride-Clinton Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School; Associate Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago (USA)
Chris Swift
Head of Chaplaincy and Chaplaincy Research, Education and Development Office at The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)
John Swinton
Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies and Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, King's College, University of Aberdeen (UK)
David Tacey
Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Communication and Critical Enquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University (AUS)
Carol Taylor
Professor of Medicine and Nursing, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University (USA)
Peter van der Veer
Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen (DEU)
Stan van Hooft
Professor of Philosophy, School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University (AUS)
Antonia van Loon
Senior Research Fellow RDNS, Adjunct Faculty, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide (AUS)
Bella Vivat
Research Lecturer, School of Health Sciences and Social Care, Brunel University (UK)
Susan Walker
Administrative Director, Diabetes Institute, Walter Reed Health Care System and adjunct faculty at George Mason University School of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC (USA)
Radhule Weininger
Clinical Psychologist, Santa Barbara (USA)
William West
Reader in Counselling Studies, University of Manchester (UK)
Ashley J. Wildman
Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology, Western Michigan University (USA)
Angelika A. Zollfrank
Director of Clinical Pastoral Education, Massachusetts General Hospital (USA)
