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European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy
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Network Committee
Dr Anne Vandenhoeck (Coordinator)
Rev Dr Prof Adamantios Avgoustidis
Rev Dr Derek BrownRev Fred Coutts (Webmaster)
Drs Simon EversRev Debbie Hodge
Drs Robert Koorneef (Treasurer)
Coordinator: Dr Anne Vandenhoeck
Anne Vandenhoeck was elected Coordinator of the Network at the 11th Consultation in London in September 2010. As a Belgian Catholic chaplain she worked for more than 13 years in several hospitals: General Hospital A.Z.
Damiaan in Oostende (2 years), University Hospital UZ. Gasthuisberg (10
years), CPE in UCSF San Francisco (3 months), Barnes Jewish Hospital St.
Louis Missouri (1 year).
She holds a PhD in Pastoral Theology and is currently working as a supervisor and research assistant at the Academic Center for Practical Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven and as a staff member of the Diocese of Brugge.
Anne attended her first consultation in Dublin in 2004 and was elected to the Network committee. She served on the committee from 2004-2008.
E-mail: coordinator@eurochaplains.org
Mailing address:
Academic Centre for Practical Theology
St Michielsstraat 4 postbus 3101
3000 Leuven, Belgium
CLICK HERE to go to the Coordinator's Page
Committee Members
Rev Dr Prof Adamantios Avgoustidis
(Orthodox Church of Greece)
Elected as a committee member in 2010
Rev Dr Adamantios G Avgoustidis MD PhD, Psychiatrist, Theologian, elected as associate Professor at the University of Athens and priest (protopresbyter) in the Orthodox Christian Church of Greece.
Fr Adamantios served as the Director of the "Psychiatric and Pastoral Care Service" of the Centre for Mental Health (C.M.H.) of Athens, Supervisor of a Deinstitutionalization program for long-term and severe institutionalized mental patients ("Boarding House Unit of Levadia"- a rehabilitation program for chronic psychotic patients) and of the National “Foster Families Program” of the C.M.H. Presently, and later as member of the Board of Directors of the C.M.H. He is Associate Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Pastoral Theology at the School of Theology at the University of Athens. He had been the president of "European Council for Pastoral Care and Counseling" (ECPCC) and now member of its Steering Committee. Apart from his academic position, he is the General Director of the "Pastoral Training Foundation" of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, Greece. Among other activities, the foundation offers training and supervision to the hospital chaplains of the Archdiocese. He is also a member of the synodal committee for pastoral care issues,working on a global proposal for the renovation of hospital chaplaincy in Greece.
Fr Adamantios has attended every consultation since Crete in 2000.
Rev Dr Professor Adamantios G Avgoustidis
23, Athinas str
Piraeus 18539
GREECE
E-mail: aavgoust@theol.uoa.gr
Elected as a committee member in 2010
Derek Brown is President of SACH (Scottish Association of Chaplains in Healthcare). He has worked as a chaplain for 23 years, currently as Lead Chaplain in the Highlands of Scotland responsible for spiritual care services from a base in Inverness. He served 14 of those years a chaplain in a Hospice.
He is interested in research into chaplaincy and serves on the UK Board for Healthcare Chaplaincy.
He has attended every consultation since Dublin in 2004 and served as an alternate committee member 2004-2006
Rev Dr Derek Brown
Chaplains' Office
Raigmore Infirmary
Inverness
IV2 3UJ
E-mail: derek.brown1@nhs.netWebsite: www.sach.org.uk
Elected in London in 2010 as the organiser of the `12th Consultation in the Netherlands in 2012
Simon Evers has been the president of VGVZ since June 7th, 2010.
He was born in 1959 and active as chaplain in the Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (Amsterdam – www.olvg.nl ) since 1996. From 1979 until 2001 he was a Benedictine of the St Andrew's Abbey in Bruges (Belgium) and there he was ordained a priest in 1988. He is now a priest of the Diocese Haarlem-Amsterdam.
He studied theology in Bruges and Rome. His hobbies are organizing and conducting trips, especially to Rome and Italy, to go hiking and listening to classical music.
Dhr. Simon Evers
President VGVZ
Leidseplein 5
1017 PR Amsterdam
E-mail: s.a.a.evers@olvg.nl
Prof Axel Liégeois
(Catholic Univerity of Louvain)
Elected Committee Member 2010
Axel Liégeois is a catholic moral and pastoral theologian from Belgium. He studied philosophy, theology and ethics was trained in counselling and pastoral supervision. At this time, he is professor of pastoral and practical theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven. He holds the chair for pastoral and ethical research and teaching in the field of care for people with a mental disorder or a mental disability. He also works as ethical and pastoral advisor for the Brothers of Charity in Gent, a religious congregation with twenty five services for people with mental disorder or disability in Belgium.
He was first elected to the committee in Tartu in 2008 and relected in London in 2010
E-mail: axel.liegeois@theo.kuleuven.be
Telephone: + 32 92411968.
Personal Website: www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0004769e.htm#Mailing address:
Faculteit Godgeleerdheid
K.U.Leuven
Sint-Michielsstraat 6
bus 3101
B-3000 Leuven
BELGIUM
Revd Debbie Hodge
(Free Churches Secretary for Health Care Chaplaincy)
Elected in Tartu 2008 as the organiser of the
11th Consultation in England and Wales 2010
Revd Debbie Hodge is Free Church Secretary for Health Care Chaplaincy. Ordained as a minister in the United Reformed Church in 2000, Mrs Hodge has served at Leaside Methodist/ United Reformed Church in Ware and in a variety of Chaplaincy post in higher education and health care settings.
Debbie has a background in the National Health Service. She trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and has worked as nurse, nursing tutor and as Principal Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Hertfordshire. She maintains her nursing links as a member of the National Steering Group for Parish Nursing as a lecturer.
She lectures at St Michaels College Cardiff Centre for Chaplaincy Studies. She has just had published a research project on Family Witnessed Resuscitation and her current studies include the development of a 'Model of Spiritual care'. Based at Churches Together in England she is the Secretary of Churches Together for Healing and Executive Officer for Churches Together in England.
She attended the Network consultations in Lisbon, Tartu and London.
E-mail: debbie.hodge@cte.org.uk
Telephone:
Mailing Address:
Churches Together in England
27 Tavistock Square
London WC1 9HH
UK
Marie Opatrná, MA, M.D., Ph.D
(Department of Oncology of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague)
Elected Committee Member 2010
Marie Opatrná is an oncologist by original profession. She has been pastoral worker since 1997, when she was sent by vicar general of Prague Archdiocese to the General Teaching Hospital in Prague. Thus she became the first pastoral worker in Czech Republic who has been a member of a multidisciplinary team (Department of Oncology, ESMO accreditation).
- Education – Charles University
Faculty of Medicine 1981 M.D. - Catholic Theological Faculty 1997 MA
- First Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Humanitarian Studies in Medicine (Medical Ethics)
Dissertation: Clinical Pastoral Care as a Part of Total Care 2008 Ph.D.
Yearly, since 2005 she has organized conferences for pastoral workers.
In 2009 she established the Czech Society for Clinical Pastoral Care that is a member of the Czech Medical Association J. E Purkyně.
She attended the Network Consultations in Lisbon, Tartu and London.
Marie Opatrna MD, MA, PhD
Terronska 10
Prague
6000
Czech Republic
E-mail: mopatrna@seznam.cz
Treasurer
Appointed Treasurer of the Network at the 11the Consultation in London 2010
Drs Robert Koorneef has been council secretary of the VGVZ since 2006 and is president of SKVG.
He was born in 1956 and have a lat-relationship with his girlfriend. His two children are 24 (daughter) and 22 (son) years old.He isa protestant and a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN). As a chaplain he worksin the Martini Hospital in Groningen (www.martiniziekenhuis.nl).
Robert writes, "In my free time I engage myself with collecting (skating)books, exercising yoga, skating and long distance walks, visiting art cinemas, reading literature. "
He attended the consultations in Tartu in Estonia in 2008 and London in 2010
Drs. Robert Koorneef,
President SKGV
Leidseplein 5
1017 PR Amsterdam
E-mail: r.koorneef@mzh.nl
Webmasters
Rev Fred Coutts
(Scottish Churches Committee on Healthcare Chaplaincy)
Rev FRED COUTTS retired at the end of 2011. He worked since 1989 as a hospital chaplain in a large teaching hospital in Aberdeen. Before that he served as a parish minister of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian).
Fred created the Network website after the Crete Consultation. He was appointed Webmaster at the Turku consultation in 2002 and has continued to look after the Network Website since then, attending every consultation. He is currently in the process of handing over responsibility to Jennifer McWhirter.
E-mail: webmaster@eurochaplains.org
Telephone: +44 1779 841320
Mailing address:
Ladebank
1 Manse Place
Hatton
Peterhead AB42 0UQ
UK
Rev Jennifer McWhirter
(Secretary, Northern Ireland Healthcare Chaplains' Association)
Rev Jennifer McWhirter was appointed Webmaster by the Committee at their meeting held in Utrecht in 2011.
Jennifer is secretary of the Northern Ireland Healthcare Chaplains' Association, representing them at the network consultations in Tartu and London. She is an Anglican Priest and Vicar of the United Parishes of Templepatrick and Donegore. Her background is in chaplaincy, first in America as a CPE resident and then in Belfast, and she works as a part-time chaplain in Musgrave Park Hospital.
E-mail: eurochaplains@gmail.com
The Vicarage
926 Antrim Road
Templepatrick
Co. Antrim
BT39 0AT
Northern Ireland