Dailure and Dailrag

Florence Gelo, D.Min, NCPsyA Associate Professor DEPARTMENT: Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine SPECIALTY: Death and dying; palliative care; religion/spirituality and medicine EDUCATION: D.Min, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary; NCPsyA, Philadelphia School for Modern Psychoanalysis

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Gelo is the behavioral science coordinator for the Family Medicine residency program and the recipient of funding to establish a curriculum around religion, spirituality and medicine. She is the co-recipient of a grant from the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health for work in medicine and spirituality with family medicine residents. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications in journals, including the Hastings Center Report, theJournal of Pastoral Care and the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Gelo is also a pastoral psychotherapist in private practice specializing in grief and loss and chronic illness. She serves as a guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Watch Dr. Gelo in "The Heart of Empathy" video (WMV)