About
Kate is a board-certified nurse psychotherapist, educator, and researcher with expertise in grief, loss, and mourning. She is keenly interested in cultural-religious beliefs and ritual around death. She is currently researching issues of clinician quality of life, moral distress, and resilience in palliative care. Kate is an advocate for using the arts and humanities to enhance spiritual care of the dying.
Other Appointments:
- Adjunct Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Key Accomplishments
- Doctoral Dissertation: Thanatopoiesis: The Relational Matrix of Spiritual End-of-Life Care
- Podcast Series Designer & Speaker: Centering Practices for Wellbeing in End-of-Life Care
- Curriculum Designer & Instructor: Non-Pharmacologic Interventions for Pain & Anxiety: Enhancing End-of-Life Comfort Care, OhioHealth Hospice & Palliative Medicine
- Primary Investigator: The CARE Project, Compassion Awareness & Resilience Education, OhioHealth Hospice & Palliative Medicine
- Curriculum Designer & Instructor: Complementary & Alternative Healing Modalities and Yoga for Health, Capital University School of Nursing, Columbus, Ohio
Education / Honors
- PhD in Comparative Religions (2012): The Ohio State University, College of Humanities
- MA in Comparative Cultural Studies (2007): The Ohio State University, College of Humanities
- MSN Kent State University (1985): Psychiatric-Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing
- Nominated Nursing Professor of the Year (1987): The Ohio State University College of Nursing
- Certificate in Therapeutic Harp Music (2021): The Music for Healing and Transition Program
- Certificate in Traditional Chinese Medicine (2006): Anhui College of Medicine, Hefei, China
- Certificate in Yoga Teacher Training (2000): Yoga on High Studio, Columbus, Ohio
- Certificate in Herbal Medicine (1993): Healing Heart Herbal School, Rutland, Ohio
- Qualified Therapeutic Touch Practitioner & Teacher (1990): Therapeutic Touch International
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