Faculty & Staff
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David Kozishek, MA, BCC
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David joins The Center for Ethics and Humanities and the Department of Family Medicine as an Assistant Professor. He will be responsible for providing leadership in the spirituality and medicine components of medical student and resident training in the College of Human Medicine and will assist with related teaching needs in professionalism and the patient-physician relationship. He will develop and offer training programs in pastoral care for clergy in the areas served by CHM’s six community partners, and will develop and engage in scholarship related to the practice and teaching of spirituality in health care. David will also be teaching in the various curricula offered through the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at MSU, and looks forward to pursuing a diversity of teaching, service, and research projects grounded in the medical humanities.
David earned his B.A. in philosophy, theology, and psychology at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, followed by a four-year BA/MA degree in Religious Studies at the University of Louvain in Leuven, Belgium. He is currently a candidate for the PhD degree at The University of Texas Medical Branch’s Institute for the Medical Humanities, where he has achieved a double-major in both health care ethics and literature/narrative studies in health care, as well as a minor in the history of medicine. Prior to his doctoral studies David completed a two-year residency in Clinical Pastoral Education at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN, and is currently a Board Certified Chaplain (BCC) through the Association of Professional Chaplains.
His dissertation topic is “A Hermeneutic Analysis of Clinical Ethics Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Practice Grounded in the Humanist Tradition.”
