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Home » 2022 National Conference » Past Conferences » 2016 National Conference » 2016 Plenary Speakers » George Fitchett, DMin, PhD

George Fitchett, DMin, PhD

Evidence-Based Chaplaincy Care:
Transforming Our Practice

George Fitchett, DMin, PhD

Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 8:45 a.m.
Sponsored by the Catholic Health Association of the United States.

Healthcare chaplains are embracing the importance of evidence-based chaplaincy care. In his presentation, George Fitchett, a leading chaplain-researcher, will review what evidence-based care is and is not and will examine the case for and against it. He will illustrate how different types of research can inform chaplaincy practice and discuss the implications of this paradigm change for the profession of healthcare chaplaincy.

George Fitchett, DMin, PhD is Professor and the Director of Research in the Department of Religion, Health, and Human Values, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago Illinois. He also holds an appointment in Rush’s Department of Preventive Medicine. He has been a certified chaplain (Association of Professional Chaplains) and chaplain supervisor (Association for Clinical Pastoral Education) for over 35 years. George’s contributions to chaplaincy have been recognized with awards from the Association of Professional Chaplains (2006 Anton Boisen Professional Service Award) and the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (2014 Helen Flanders Dunbar Award). In addition to his training in spiritual care, George is trained in epidemiology. He was the first chaplain to receive a Career Development Award from the NIH. George’s research has examined the relationship between religion and health in a variety of community and clinical populations. In 1990 he developed his department’s research program, one of the first such programs in any chaplaincy department. With Wendy Cadge, he is leading a 4 year, $4.5M project to advance chaplain research literacy (www.researchliteratechaplaincy.org).
 
Sponsored by the Catholic Health Association of the United States.
 
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