The Eternal Bond

Janet Lynn Roseman, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Integrative Medicine at the Dr. Kiran Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine. She teaches courses in Spirituality and Medicine, Art and Medicine, and Death and Dying for medical school students. She received the first Joseph Moore President's Award for her work in oncology and spirituality from Lesley College and was a David Larsen Fellow in Spirituality and Medicine at the Kluge Center for Scholars at the Library of Congress. Dr. Roseman is also the Founding Director of the Sidney Project in Spirituality and Medicine and Compassionate Care(TM), a medical education program for physician residents.

Christina Puchalski, MD, MS, FACP, FAAHPM, is an international leader in the movement to integrate spirituality into health care. As founder and director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality & Health (GWish), Dr. Puchalski's work has been featured in print, on television, and in numerous scholarly journals. She is the author of Time for Listening and Caring: Spirituality and the Care of the Seriously Ill and Dying (Oxford University Press) and co-author with Dr. Betty Ferrell of Making Healthcare Whole (Templeton Press).

Dr. Puchalski is a professor at GW's medical school and is board certified in palliative care and internal medicine. As a Medical Hospice Director in Washington, DC, she directs an interdisciplinary outpatient supportive and palliative clinic.