D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine-medical oncology, and director of the Thoracic Oncology Clinical Program and Clinical Research Program at the University of Colorado Cancer Center – Anschutz Medical Campus.

How This Is Building Me, hosted by world-renowned oncologist D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, is a podcast focused on the highs and lows, ups and downs of all those involved with cancer, cancer medicine, and cancer science across the full spectrum of life’s experiences.

In this episode, Dr Camidge sits down with Chaplain Rhonda Cooper to discuss Cooper’s experience as a hospital chaplain. Cooper is the former primary chaplain of the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center.

Camidge and Cooper discuss key moments in Cooper’s career as a chaplain, the focus of her writing and research about hospital chaplaincy, and the importance of meeting patients where they are when providing spiritual care.

Podcasts

Camidge and Cooper discuss Cooper’s career as a hospital chaplain, the focus of her writing, and the importance of meeting patients where they are.

Rhonda Cooper

Articles

Camidge and Cooper on Finding Purpose and Embracing Nuance in Hospital Chaplaincy