19th Annual Healthcare Professionals for Divine Mercy Medicine, Bioethics, & Spirituality Conference

Fr. Mark Baron, MIC: Our Lady and the Eucharist: Importance for Patient Care
Andrea Bertheaud, MSN, RN-BC: Compassion and Mercy: Medical Profession Students Caring for Populations at Home and Abroad
Fr. Kazimierz Chwalek, MIC: Understanding Compassion and Mercy in Healthcare: Benefits to Patient Care and Patient Care of the Dying with the Divine Mercy Message and Devotion: Approach of Pastoral Care
Fr. Kazimierz Chwalek, MIC, and Fr. Mark Baron, MIC: Spiritual Retreat Lectures
Robin Goldsmith, M.D.: The Need for Courage and Compassion in Catholic Primary Care and Life at the End of Life
Dr. Christopher Klofft: Just War Theory and the Challenges of 21st Century Conflict
Most Rev. Bishop Robert McManus, MA, STD: How The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services Helps Physicians, Nurses, and Others Provide Better Healthcare
Sr. M. Salvatrice Musial, OLM: Spirituality of Mercy. Transforming painful experiences into a gift to heal others
Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC: Practicing Faith-Based Virtues as the Key to Compassionate and Merciful Care in the Medical Settings
Marie Romagnano, MSN, RN, CCM: The Five-Minute Spiritual Assessment for Any Healthcare Professional and Joint Commission Guidelines
Marie Romagnano, MSN, RN, CCM, and Fr. Kazimierz Chwalek, MIC: How to Tell a Patient They are Dying and Case Study of a Dying Patient: Clinical, Family, and Pastoral Considerations for the Medical and Pastoral Team
Kathleen Brooks Scoble, EdD, MEd, MA, RN: Life of Compassion and Mercy: Rendering Medical Care to the "Poorest of the Poor" Found on the Streets of Calcutta
Dr. Ron Sobecks: Approaches to Merciful Healthcare: Enhancing the Patient Experience and Conforming to the Divine Will in Healthcare: Benefits to Patient Care
Bryan Thatcher, MD: Reflections on Mercy and Compassion – A Case Study of a Patient with Terminal Tuberculosis


Fr. Mark Baron, MIC

Director of The Association of Marian Helpers (“Fr. Joseph”), Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Our Lady and the Eucharist: Importance for Patient Care


Andrea Bertheaud, MSN, RN-BC

Clinical Assistant Professor at College of Our Lady of the Elms, School of Nursing, Coordinator for Mental Health and Population Health Nursing Courses

Compassion and Mercy: Medical Profession Students Caring for Populations at Home and Abroad


Fr. Kazimierz Chwalek, MIC, BA, STB, STL (Cand.)

Director of the John Paul II Institute of Divine Mercy; Religious Director of Healthcare Professionals for Divine Mercy

Understanding Compassion and Mercy in Healthcare: Benefits to Patient Care

Patient Care of the Dying with the Divine Mercy Message and Devotion: Approach of Pastoral Care


Fr. Kazimierz Chwalek, MIC, BA, STB, STL (Cand.)

Director of the John Paul II Institute of Divine Mercy; Religious Director of Healthcare Professionals for Divine Mercy

and Fr. Mark Baron, MIC

Director of The Association of Marian Helpers (“Fr. Joseph”), Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Spiritual Retreat Lectures


Robin Goldsmith, M.D.

President and Chief Medical Officer of the St. Gianna Clinic in De Pere, Wisc.

The Need for Courage and Compassion in Catholic Primary Care

Life at the End of Life


Dr. Christopher Klofft

Associate Professor of Theology, Assumption College

Just War Theory and the Challenges of 21st Century Conflict


Most Rev. Bishop Robert McManus, DD, STD

Bishop of the Diocese of Worcester (Massachusetts); Past Chairperson of the Committee on Education for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

How The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services Helps Physicians, Nurses, and Others Provide Better Healthcare


Sr. M. Salvatrice Musial, OLM

Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy; M.A. from Pontifical Academy of Theology, study at the School of Religious Formators

Spirituality of Mercy. Transforming painful experiences into a gift to heal others


Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC, MA, STL

Superior General of the worldwide Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary

Practicing Faith-Based Virtues as the Key to Compassionate and Merciful Care in the Medical Settings


Marie Romagnano, MSN, RN, CCM-R

Founder, Healthcare Professionals for Divine Mercy; Assistant Clinical Professor, Elms School of Nursing, College of Our Lady of the Elms; Director, Medical and Humanitarian Case Management Operations for Ukraine Relief

The Five-Minute Spiritual Assessment for Any Healthcare Professional and Joint Commission Guidelines


Marie Romagnano, MSN, RN, CCM-R

Founder, Healthcare Professionals for Divine Mercy; Assistant Clinical Professor, Elms School of Nursing, College of Our Lady of the Elms; Director, Medical and Humanitarian Case Management Operations for Ukraine Relief

How to Tell a Patient They are Dying

and Fr. Kazimierz Chwalek, MIC, BA, STB, STL (Cand.)

Director of the John Paul II Institute of Divine Mercy; Religious Director of Healthcare Professionals for Divine Mercy

Case Study of a Dying Patient: Clinical, Family, and Pastoral Considerations for the Medical and Pastoral Team


Kathleen Brooks Scoble, EdD, MEd, MA, RN

Dean Emeritus, College of Our Lady of the Elms School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing

Life of Compassion and Mercy: Rendering Medical Care to the "Poorest of the Poor" Found on the Streets of Calcutta


Dr. Ron Sobecks, MD

Professor, Dept. of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Approaches to Merciful Healthcare: Enhancing the Patient Experience

Conforming to the Divine Will in Healthcare: Benefits to Patient Care


Bryan Thatcher, MD

Intl. Director, Doctors for Divine Mercy; Founder, Eucharistic Apostles of The Divine Mercy

Reflections on Mercy and Compassion – A Case Study of a Patient with Terminal Tuberculosis