Psychology Plenary Speaker:
Founding Co-Chair of the Analytical Psychology and Orthodox Christianity Consultation
Dr. Pia Sophia Chaudhari holds a doctorate in theology from the department of Psychiatry & Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She is the author of Dynamis of Healing; Patristic Theology and the Psyche (Fordham University Press 2019), as well as numerous articles, including on marriage and theosis, the unconscious and prayer, and healing and the Theotokos. Her research interests include theological anthropology, depth psychology, processes of healing, the feminine, aesthetics and beauty. She spent two years working as a chaplain intern in a psychiatric hospital, and has trained and worked extensively in Jungian psychoanalysis. She is a founding co-chair of the Analytical Psychology and Orthodox Christianity Consultation (APOCC) which was started in order to promote dialogue across the fields of Orthodox theology/pastoral care and analytical psychology after Carl Jung, and which has hosted several gatherings as well as having presented at OCAMPR in the past. Dr. Chaudhari served as a Steering Committee member of the Assembly of Bishops Mental Health Task Force.
Theology Plenary Speaker:
Archiepiscopal Vicar for the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese and Adjunct Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
The Right Reverend Archimandrite Calinic Berger is the Archiepiscopal Vicar for the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Dogmatic Theology at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts, and as visiting professor of dogmatic theology at St Vladimir’s Seminary in New York. His teaching, research and academic publications have concentrated on Chalcedonian Christology and contemporary Orthodox dogmatic theology, most especially that of Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University (1988), Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (1994) and the Catholic University of America, where he obtained his Ph.D. in historical theology (2003).
6 Nov 2024
Rev. Dn. Sampson (Ryan) Nash, MD, MA -Medical Plenary Speaker
Medical Plenary Speaker:The Hagop S. Mekhjian, MD, Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics and Professionalism & Director of The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities
The Rev. Dn. Sampson (Ryan) Nash, MD, MA is the Hagop S. Mekhjian, MD, Endowed Chair in Medical Ethics and Professionalism and the Director of The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities. He also holds appointments as adjunct Professor of Christian Ethics at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and Professor of Medicine at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. In addition to being an active educator, administrator, and serving as a healthcare ethics and clinical bioethics advisor and consultant, Dr Nash continues to be active in Palliative Medicine caring for patients primarily with advanced cancer. Dr Nash’s scholarship focuses on practical, procedural, and policy issues related to Medicine, Clinical Bioethics and Palliative Medicine. He also explores ethics foundations at the nexus of medicine, ethics, theology, religion, and culture. Dn Sampson serves at St. Gregory of Nyssa Orthodox Church (OCA) in Columbus, Ohio. He is the grateful husband of Sarah and proud father of four daughters. He occasionally helps them run their small farm north of Columbus.
Dr. Nash received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and his master’s degree in Bioethics from Trinity International University. He completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Texas Medical School, a fellowship in palliative medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and was a fellow and visiting scholar at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Nash has been recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care, and Fellow in the Academy of Fellows of the Center of Bioethics and Human Dignity. He has repeatedly been named to the “America’s Best Doctors” and “World’s Best Doctors” lists.
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