2020 ACPE Election

If you have questions about the election or candidates, please contact Shawn Mai, Leadership Development Chair. If you have questions about the balloting software or election process, please contact John Roch, Director of Communications & Technology.

ACPE Certified Educator Mari Chollet has served on the ACPE Board of Directors for two years. She believes that she is in a position to contribute in more depth and scope during a second term and that the work of the Board would benefit from continuity. Mari is relational, focused, detail-oriented, and organized. She can think strategically in order to address long-term goals; she is creative and loves brainstorming with others to create innovative solutions and processes. Mari is truly passionate about CPE and ACPE.

As Director of Religious Ministries for Penn Medicine Princeton Health, Matt supervises CEC's, residents, and interns, co-chairs the bio-medical ethics committee, chairs the Employee Benevolent Fund, and serves on the Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee, while helping to grow a religiously diverse and multi-cultural department. Outside of work, Matt is Board President of Womanspace, Co-Moderator of a national denominational committee on the future of faith formation, and has had the privilege of serving as an ACPE Board Member, a board liaison for the ACPE Outcomes Work Group, an ACPE Theory Mentor, and being a part of the REM CoP.

The Rev. Dr. Robert Randy Hall is an ACPE Certified Educator and an ordained Baptist minister. He is endorsed by the Alliance of Baptists. He completed his supervisory education at Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, NC. After completion of his supervisory education and as an ACPE Associate Supervisor (2008), he became the Director of CPE in the Pastoral Care and Counseling Department at ARMC (2009). He was granted ACPE Supervisor in 2010 and stayed at ARMC until August of 2013. He immediately entered the Pastoral Care Department at UNC Hospitals as contract supervisor and became a full-time member of the staff in December of 2013. Randy has served as an adjunct member of the Certification Commission. He has served on the Accreditation Commission since 2013 and has been the chair-elect of the commission since 2018 and mostly working with new center seeking Pre-Provisional Accreditation.

Chair-Elect

Catherine (Katy) Wilcox

Katy earned a MDiv from Yale Divinity School in 2002. She is ordained in the UCC. She completed four units of Level I/Level II CPE at Hartford Hospital and CE CPE at UConn Health becoming an associate CE in 2013 followed by full three years later. She currently is a contract educator developing an independent CPE center, The JED Center for Spiritual Care and Education. She enjoys the accreditation commission for the opportunity it offers to build relationships with CEs and centers around the country.

 

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Crystal Schmalz

Relationship, collaboration, diversity, and creativity are a few of the values Rev. Crystal Schmalz who is an ACPE Certified Educator with St. Joseph Mercy Health System and Trinity Health hopes to bring with her if chosen to serve on Accreditation. Crystal loves spending time with her family, making dream catchers, painting, and being outside near the beautiful lakes and forests of Michigan!

 

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Timothy Shipe

Timothy Shipe is an ACPE Certified Educator and an APC Certified Chaplain at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA. He has enjoyed serving with ACPE Accreditation, first in the former Pacific Region and now, for the past several years, on the ACPE Accreditation Commission.

 

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Walter Balk

The Rev. Walter Balk is a UCC minister, Board Certified Chaplain, and ACPE Certified Educator. Raised in Germany as a son of Dutch immigrants, Walter is a Dutch/US citizen who completed his graduate work at the University of Tübingen in 1991. After finishing a CPE residency in 1992 Walter has worked in several psychiatric and general hospital settings. He became an ACPE Certifed Educator in 2004. In the area of Accreditation, he is very interested in understanding and developing best practices for the new Accreditation Process evolves and wants to help make Accreditation a collaborative process.

The Rev. Christine Davies is the director of Pastoral Care at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey. She has served as a Certification commissioner for the past two years, is a Presbyterian minister, and a mom to two young, energetic boys.

Cam Holzer

Hello Colleagues.  Having served on the Certification Commission these past two years, learning and implementing our new processes and supporting Certified Educator Candidates across the nation, I would be glad to continue this valued work.  I am an Alliance of Baptists minister with over thirty years of varied professional ministry, have run the ACPE Center at University of Kentucky HealthCare since 2013; I live with a developmental behavioral pediatrician named Dan and a cat named Fred, both of whom are deeply beloved and wonderfully low maintenance.

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Cathy Hasty

The core of Cathy Hasty’s work is her curiosity to explore the mystery of the human spirit from many directions in service of healing and wellness. Starting as a nurse (1979,) and becoming a BCC, ACPE CE, AAPC Diplomate, Resiliency Educator, Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor, visual change artist, and writer, Cathy seeks to use her experience in the supervision of supervision through our certification process.

 

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Public Member

Lisa Merriweather

Lisa R. Merriweather is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She received her PhD in Adult Education with a graduate certificate in Qualitative Inquiry from the University of Georgia in 2004. Her research focuses on issues of equity and social justice within discourses of adult education, informal education, and doctoral education. She explores the critical philosophy and sociology of race and anti-Black racism and employs Africana Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, and qualitative and historical methodology to investigate topics found at the nexus of race and adult education.

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MaryBeth Hayes

MaryBeth Hayes, a UCC Clergy member, has been a Certified Educator since the mid 90’s, and she has served as an ACPE Educator in Texas, Rhode Island and Georgia.   She has served on Accreditation, Certification, the Board of Directors, on the first group appointed to establishing the new Certification process and worked to create the Common Ethics standards.  She is currently a National Site Team Chair and Theory Mentor and she enjoys seeing lives changed as a result of what we do as educators.  She is the Director of CPE at the Atlanta Veterans Health System and finds the education of ACPE Certified Educators to be the most challenging and enjoyable part of her career.  She knows and respects the amount of time and energy it takes to become a certified educator and wants to support those in the process.  

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Steve Goss

Throughout his ACPE career, Steve Goss has served in the former  Southwest, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions, with 29 years of running Residency, Extern, and Summer units, and 21 years of Certification work. He is seeking re-election to a second term on the Certification Commission after completing a two-year term in December. Steve is a Disciples of Christ minister and is married with two grown children. He is currently in his eleventh year as the Director of CPE at Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center in Portsmouth, VA.

Kyle Vlach has been an ACPE Educator since 2010, practicing at Allina Health in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. He has brought his dual training as an LMFT and Educator to his work with the newly formed Psychotherapy Commission and looks forward to deepening involvement as the Commission seeks to serve the growing ACPE community over the next few years.

Dr. Marcus McKinney is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, UCONN School of Medicine; Associate Faculty of Ariadne Labs at Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He is the Founder and director of the Pastoral Counseling Training Program in Connecticut begun 22 years ago in cooperation of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. A Fellow in AAPC, he is a Baptist minister, licensed professional counselor and now serving as Director of the Day Kimball Community Health Academy in Northeast Connecticut.

Retired ACPE Educator Steve Ivy’s professional life has valued both education and counseling practices as illustrated by his ACPE Certified Educator and AAPC Fellow certifications and volunteer activities in both organizations. Steve’s commitment to the integration of these within the new ACPE structure was demonstrated by his service on the transition team and staff support to the Psychotherapy Commission. He looks forward to continuing this integrative work if elected to the Commission.

Rev. Dr. Cecelia Ann Walker is the Executive Director of Chaplaincy and CPE for Brookwood Baptist Health System in Birmingham, AL. She is completing her term as the Chair of the ACPE Certification Commission.

Garrett Starmer is presently the Certified Educator for the VA Puget Sound (Interim) and participating in three educational CoP's, after officially "retiring" in 2018, being awarded Emeritus in 2020 and Managing/Directing CPE programs for Catholic Health Initiatives for 23 plus years (15 years in Denver and 9 years in Tacoma).  His love for ACPE is seen in his ongoing service within the previous regional structure, serving on many committee's including Regional Chair and Nationally, where he has served on the Board for two terms, RANC, and in his present role on the Ethics Commission.

Retired Educator Greg Stoddard has served ACPE in a variety of roles and capacities over the years. Throughout his career, he has held leadership roles on the Accreditation Commission, Boards of ACPE and ACPE’s Foundation, Interim Psychotherapy Commission, and Professional Ethics Commission. He is currently serving as a Theory Integration Mentor. Greg has been living into retirement since 2013. He enjoys traveling with his wife Teri, spending time with his family and grandchildren, serving when asked or called, and developing his skills as a woodworker.

Janise Randall is an ACPE Certified Educator currently serving at Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas. She received her full certification in May of 2019 at the ACPE Annual Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Janise is an ordained American Baptist minister and finds her work as an educator fulfilling and rewarding.

Tahara Akmal serves as the CPE Manager at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, and adjunct faculty in the chaplaincy programs at Bayan Islamic Graduate School at Chicago Theological Seminary, and Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, PA. Tahara earned a MA degree in Islamic studies and pastoral care from Claremont School of Theology in southern California, where she researched bioethics in the Islamic tradition related to organ donation, and she is currently a Ph.D. candidate in leadership studies at Alvernia University in Reading, PA.

The ongoing development of our ACPE leaders is a passion for Jill Rasmussen-Baker. Having served 5 years in supervisory management; 5 years in full-time congregational ministry, four as a solo pastor; and 15 years in hospital spiritual care, 7 as an ACPE Certified Educator, she is committed to positive relationships and to her own development as a leader.  For the last three years, Jill has served as the Director of Spiritual Care for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA.  She is grateful for the opportunity to serve her ACPE colleagues as an active member of the ACPE Leadership Development Committee who is aware of her white privilege and who is committed to striving toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion within and outside of ACPE.

Pam Lazor

Pam Lazor works at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles where she serves as the Manager of the CPE Program.  She has served in various roles on Accreditation since 2015, both in the Pacific Area, and on the Accreditation Commission, including as Pacific Area Chair, and Chair-Elect and Chair of the Accreditation Commission.

David C.  Johnson currently serves as the business manager of the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling and as an ACPE educator with the Center for Integrative Pastoral Practice. He is a former ACPE Accreditation Commission Chair and ACPE President.

Janet MacLean is the director of clinical pastoral education for the Advocate Aurora Health system in Illinois and Wisconsin and has served on ACPE nominating committees regionally and nationally. Her son – who was a baby when she was a CPE resident has recently married and she is glad he & his wife live close enough to be part of her pandemic ‘pod’.