COMPANIONING THE DYING - Key Persons
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- Medical Director, ACE Unit
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- Director, George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Treasurer of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Co - Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
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- Author, Lecturer, Co - Director of the Institute of Compassionate Presence
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- Vice President of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- LMT, Secretary
Micheline Toussaint, LCSW, OSW-C, RYT A social worker for more than 20 years, Micheline developed an interest in complementary mind-body approaches to healing while growing up overseas in Asia. In addition to being a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, she is a registered yoga teacher, a certified psychodramatist, and a certified end-of-life counselor. She provides individual, couples, and family counseling for cancer patients and their loved ones. She helped develop a mind-body education series, leads yoga and meditation classes for patients and caregivers, facilitates support groups, and speaks to community groups about issues related to cancer. Micheline has a particular interest in using mind-body practices to strengthen resiliency in cancer patients and their caregivers.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Registered Nurse
- Hospice Nurse, Former Co - Director
Priscilla Norris is a registered nurse with a long history of hospice care, particularly of people with HIV. Most recently she worked for 13 years as clinical coordinator at Joseph's House, a facility in Washington, DC offering comprehensive nursing and support services to homeless men and women with advanced HIV disease and terminal cancer, where Priscilla oversaw the care of the residents and served as teacher and mentor for the year-long interns. She has a nursing degree from Catholic University and is a graduate of the Metta Institute End-of-Life Counselor Program. She is a former Co-Program Director of Companioning the Dying.
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- Pastor, St. Matthew Catholic Parish, Baltimore
Rose Mary Dougherty, SSND, (1939-2019) was the former Co-Director of Companioning the Dy ing, which she co-founded in 2008 with her friend Amy Hoey. She ministered in the area of contemplative spirituality for over thirty years, and authored two books on group spiritual direction and one book on discernment. Rose Mary accompanied the dying as friend, daughter, sibling, spiritual director, and hospice volunteer. She graduated from the Metta Institute End-of-Life Counselor Program, an outgrowth of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. She was also a retired Senior Fellow of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation where for many years she directed Shalem's program in Spiritual Guidance. Rose Mary stepped back from active teaching in 2015 as she continued to live with the challenges and invitations of Parkinson's disease. Rose Mary died peacefully in March 2019.
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- Director of Palliative Care
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- Religious Leader, Canon Lawyer