Spiritual Care
Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was featured in the AAMC Reporter for her efforts to address the spiritual needs of patients and address the "whole person."
Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was featured in WMU News, a publication of Western Michigan University, and MLive for her upcoming talk at Western Michigan University on integrating spirituality and health care…
Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, was featured in News-Medical for her recently published paper on the history of the burgeoning field of spirituality and health.
Christina Puchalski, M.D.’94, RESD’97, founder and director of the George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, published a commentary in Academic Medicine on the history of spirituality and health, the movement to reclaim medicine’s spiritual roots…
Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was featured prominently in La Vanguardia (Barcelona, Spain) on the importance of focusing on healing as more than the absence of disease.
Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, was quoted by Spanish and Columbian media on the success of the Spanish health care program La Caixa, which focuses on spirituality and medicine in their care of the sick and dying.
Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, was featured in an article in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for a lecture she gave at Lutheran Healthcare on the connection between healthcare and spirituality.
Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was quoted in an article in Catholic News Agency about her visit with the Pope and the importance of having a loving and compassionate presence as a caregiver.
"Hospice Voices: Lessons for Living at the End of Life" by Eric Lindner was released on Oct. 12. Lindner is donating all of the book profits to organizations committed to improving the lives of hospice patients and their families, including the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health.
Christina Puchalski, M.D. '94, RESD '97, director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, wrote an op-ed in New Zealand Doctor on how the New Zealand medical community would benefit from the integration of spirituality into health care.