NACC Board of Directors

Board of Directors

See also: Board calendar | Board Election

Chair of the Board of Directors
Barbara Brumleve, SSND, Ph.D., BCC

Barbara Brumleve supervises and directs CPE at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. Dually certified with NACC and ACPE, Barbara has served on the NACC Certification Commission as well as the Accreditation and Certification Committees of the South Central Region ACPE. She holds a Ph.D in English from Saint Louis University. Prior to her work in CPE, Barbara was an educator and administrator at elementary through college levels and served in various other ministries. She has been a professed School Sister of Notre Dame for 50 years.

Chair Elect/Secretary
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.

Treasurer
Karen Pugliese, M.A., BCC

Karen Pugliese is a certified advanced chaplain serving Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield, IL. She holds a BA in Religious Studies and an MA in Religious Studies-Spirituality. She is an experienced spiritual director; retreat and workshop facilitator, as well as an experienced national presenter including NACC, Mayo Brothers, American Congress on Rehabilitation Medicine, ASA Forum on Religion, Spirituality and Aging, and the National Conference on Separated and Divorced Catholics. She is also a certified Enneagram Personality Styles Trainer and an endorsed Myers-Briggs Type Personality Development Trainer. Karen has more than twenty years health care experience including administration, ministry preparation and supervision, organizational development, quality improvement, program innovation and redesign. She is currently serving as Secretary of the Spiritual Care Collaborative Steering Committee.

Episcopal Liaison
Most Reverend Randolph R. Calvo, Bishop of Reno

Bishop Randolph Calvo is Bishop of Reno, Nevada. He was appointed the seventh bishop of the Diocese of Reno in December 2005, and was ordained and installed on February 17, 2006. He has served on many boards and councils, both in the San Francisco area and nationally. Bishop Calvo is a member of the Communication Committee and the Committee on Latin America for the USCCB.

Patrick H. Bolton, M.Div., BCC

Patrick Bolton is Director of Pastoral Care at Mercy Medical in Daphne, Alabama, where he has developed an ecumenical and ethnically diverse chaplaincy staff. He founded the Gulf Coast Chaplains Association to offer networking and educational in-services for chaplains, and, as a member of the executive committee of the Alabama Chaplains Association, providing retreat and educational opportunities for chaplains statewide. Chaplain Bolton joined the NACC in 1996 and has served the association as a member of the planning committee for the regional symposia in 2002.

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.

Norma Gutierrez, MCDP, BCC

Norma Gutierrez is a member of the Missionary Catechists of Divine Providence and has been Board certified since 2001. Her ministry experiences include serving in trauma and medical centers and in Hospices. She presently ministers at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, CA. She has served the Association as a member of the Vision Advisory Panel, Governance Committee, Strategic Vision and Planning Team, the Task Force on Standards, Certification Interviewer, Conference Planning Committees and a workshop presenter at NACC Conferences. As a person of color Norma brings a passion for diversity, advocacy and professionalism to the Board.

Geraldine M. Hoyler, CSC

Geraldine Hoyler serves as General Councilor/General Treasurer of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Indiana. Previously she spent eight years as the Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasury for Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, CO, after serving on both the original steering committee and the Board of Stewardship Trustees and playing an important part in the initial formation of CHI. Prior to that, she spent time as a healthcare consultant and as president of Mercy Services Corporation, a developer and manager of affordable housing. She has extensive experience in healthcare, accounting, and management, and has served on multiple Boards and Committees for CHRISTUS Health, CHI, CHP, and other organizations. She holds bachelor and master of science degrees from the University of Denver, and is a certified public accountant in the state of Indiana. In June of 2005 the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) awarded Sister Geraldine the 2005 Frederick C. Morgan Individual Achievement Award. Sister Geraldine is the 47th recipient of this prestigious award that honors career long contributions to healthcare financial management and HFMA.

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.

Paul D. Marceau, Th.D.

Paul Marceau is Vice President of Mission and Ethics at Trinity Health in Novi, Michigan. As such, he oversees spiritual care and spirituality for the system and the corporate office. He received a doctorate in systematic theology from the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA), specializing in the area of the diversity of religious experience. His publications have included articles in Health Progress and Vision. Current interests and projects focus on organizational spirituality and outcomes demonstration in spiritual care services.

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.