Chair of the Board of Directors
Karen Pugliese, M.A.
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.
Vice Chair/Secretary
Barbara Brumleve, SSND, Ph.D.
Barbara Brumleve serves as a CPE supervisor and operations director for the Center for Healing Ministry at Alegent Health in Omaha, NE. She has been a dually certified CPE supervisor with both the NACC and ACPE since 1995. Prior to her election to the Board of Directors, she served on the NACC Certification Commission, and on the Accreditation Committee for the south-central region of the ACPE. Sr. Brumleve holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from Saint Louis University. Before her career in clinical pastoral education, she taught at all levels of the educational system and served five years as president of Notre Dame College in St. Louis. She has been a professed School Sister of Notre Dame for 47 years.
Treasurer
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, 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.
Episcopal Liaison
Most Reverend Randolph 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.
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.
Alan Bowman, M.Div., M.B.A.
Alan Bowman is VP, Mission Integration for Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Colorado. He is a supervisor who is also certified by the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and the Association of Professional Chaplains.
Bonnie Burnett, M.Div.
Bonnie Burnett is System Director of Mission and Spirituality at CHRISTUS Health in Houston, Texas. Her background includes experience as a college administrator as well as a church musician.
Bridget Deegan-Krause, M.Div.
NACC-Certified Chaplain Bridget Deegan-Krause earned a Master of divinity from the University of Notre Dame and after completing units of CPE at Yale New Haven Hospital and St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. Bridget was certified by the NACC in the spring of 1998. Her ministry experience includes chaplaincy in various health care settings, mainly in hospice and in academic settings. Until very recently Bridget served as Chaplain for the Health Professions at the University of Detroit Mercy where she provided pastoral care, teaching and academic administration. She continues to enjoy her ministry of spiritual direction, retreat and group facilitation, and writing. Bridget has published articles in Health Progress and serves as a regular contributor to Vision. As an active member of the NACC Board she currently serves as Chair of the Governance Committee. Bridget is the mother of a busy toddler, with another child on the way. She enjoys gardening, birdwatching and writing.
Norma Gutierrez, MCDP
Norma Gutierrez, a member of the Missionary Catechists of divine Providence sisters in San Antonio, TX, was certified in 2001. Her ministry experiences include being a staff chaplain in various nondenominational healthcare settings. She is presently ministering, for the first time, in a Catholic hospital -- St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, CA. She has served the Association as a member of the Task Force on Standards, as a certification interviewer, on the planning committee for the 2005 NACC/APC joint conference, and as a workshop presenter at the NACC's 2006 conference. As a person of color, Norma brings a passion for advocacy to the board.
Secretary
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 Pollack, M.Div.
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.
