Faculty

Joel N. Berning, MDiv `10, BCC

Chaplaincy


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education

Master of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 2010
Bachelor of Arts, Pomona College, 2006

biography

Joel Nightingale Berning is a Manager in the Pastoral Care & Education Department at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he has been a hospital chaplain since 2010. He is a Board Certified Chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains, and he has served on its Board of Directors and its Commission on Certification. He supervises Clinical Pastoral Education as a Certified Educator of ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education. His research has focused on overcoming communication barriers to spiritual care.

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