Meet Our People

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Director

Alexia Torke, MD, MS

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Associate Director

Alex Lion

Working Together to Build a Center

Our Center Faculty, Affiliates and Staff come from diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise but are united by a recognition of the importance that spirituality plays in our experiences of illness, health and healthcare as patients, family members and clinicians. We collaborate together on education, research and scholarship with the ultimate goal of improving the care of our patients.

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Faculty

Ann Cottingham, MAR, MA

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Faculty

L. Vern Farnum DMin, MDiv, BCC, CT

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Faculty

Jay Foster, DMin, BCC

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Faculty

Rev. Anastasia Holman, DMIN, MDiv, MBA, BCC

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Faculty

Meganne Masko Phd, MT-BC/L

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Faculty

Shelley Varner Perez, MDiv, MPH, CPH, BCC

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Faculty

Mona Raed, MD, FAAP

Kevin R. Armstrong

Advisory Board

Leah Gunning Francis, PhD

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Advisory Board

Robin Eggers, MBA

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Advisory Board

Meredith Formsma

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Advisory Board

Margaret Gaffney, MD

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Advisory Board

Christian Strachan, MD FAAP, FAAEM

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Advisory Board

Brian Williams

Shelley Varner Perez

Chaplain Researcher

Shelley Varner Perez, MDiv, MPH, CPH, BCC

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Staff

Gloria Robertson

Our Partners and Collaborators

Chaplaincy Innovation Lab

Conference on Medicine & Religion

Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society

Eskenazi Health

GW School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Indiana University School of Medicine

IU Health Foundation

IU Health Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy Services

IU Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics

IUPUI Music Therapy

Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group

Regenstrief Institute Center for Aging Research

Rush University Medical Center

Transforming Chaplaincy