NACC Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Chair of the Board of Directors
Alan Bowman, M.Div., M.B.A., BCC

Alan Bowman currently serves as VP, Mission Integration for Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Colorado. He is a supervisor certified by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. His work experience includes chaplaincy in a diversity of settings and serving as a supervisor, director, educator and mission leader. He has served on Standards, Accreditation, Certification and the Boards of ACPE and the USCCB/CCA.

Chair Elect/Secretary
Bonnie Burnett, M.Div., BCC

Bonnie Burnett has been a member of the National Association of Catholic Chaplains since 1992. She earned her Master of Divinity from the University of Notre Dame and participated in CPE in several health systems in the Midwest. Bonnie is a Board Certified Chaplain with NACC who is currently serving as regional Vice President, Mission with CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her current ministry responsibilities include oversight of Spiritual Care, Hospice, Grace Home, the Adult Day Health Center, the Cara Center for abused and neglected children, and community health. Bonnie has served as a staff chaplain, a director of Spiritual Care, and system director for Mission and Spirituality prior to taking on her new role within CHRISTUS Health.

Treasurer
Mary Lou O'Gorman

Mary Lou O'Gorman currently serves as Director of Pastoral Care and CPE at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN. In addition to hospital ministry she has written and spoken nationally and internationally on issues related to improving end-of-life care, addressing spiritual needs at the end of life, attending to moral distress, developing cultural competence and describing the leadership roles of chaplains in today’s healthcare environment. She has also served in the areas of certification, standards, various planning committees and task forces as well as the liaison to the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops/Commission on Certification and Accreditation.

Episcopal Liaison
Most Reverend Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, DD
Archbishop of Oklahoma City, OK

James J. Castello, BCC

(bio coming soon)

Rev. John T. (Jack) Crabb, SJ

Rev. Jack Crabb is a member of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), currently is the Director of Pastoral Care and first CPE supervisor/director for the new CPE program initiated at Mercy Hospital in Portland Maine that plans to be dually accredited by NACC and ACPE. Father Jack has been a high school teacher, admissions director, and academic assistant principal. He also was the administrator of the Jesuit retreat house in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He has been a resident hospital chaplain, and holds certification as a CPE Supervisor with NACC and Associate Supervisor with ACPE. His NACC involvement includes serving as a member of the NACC Certification Commission, with the last three years of his term as Chair of the Commission.

Rev. Baaju Izuchi, CSSp, Ph.D., BCC

Rev. Baaju Izuchi is a priest of the Spiritan Congregation. After establishing an expanding mission in his native country, Nigeria, Father Baaju was called to pastoral ministry in the United States. One of the foundation members of the African Conference of Catholic Clergy and Religious in the United States, he joined the National Association of Catholic Chaplains in 2000. He is currently the NACC State Liaison for Texas. In addition to healthcare chaplaincy services, Father Baaju directs a cultural orientation program for pastoral ministry in the United States. He holds a doctor of philosophy degree in education and is a candidate for the doctor of ministry degree in clinical pastoral education and supervision. As an African pastoral minister, Father Baaju brings the gift of diversity to the NACC Board of Directors.

Jane Mather, MA, BCC

Jane Mather currently serves as Director of Spiritual Care Services for Providence Urban Hospitals (Holy Family Hospital and Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital) in Spokane, WA. Her work experience includes Director of Chaplaincy Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She has also served as a Certification Interviewer, an Interview Team Educator (and their lead) and on the Certification Commission.

John M. Pollack, M.Div., BCC

John Pollack left a career in accounting and museum administration to become a chaplain; he is currently Chief of the Spiritual Ministry Department for the National Institutes of Health, at the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland.