Best Practices in the Spiritual Care of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) Patients

This event is co-sponsored by The Chaplaincy Innovation Lab and the Center for Spirituality and Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

In 2016, the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City launched the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery (CTMS), an interdisciplinary service that provides comprehensive transition-related care to transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) patients.  Chaplains are a key part of this interdisciplinary work.  In this workshop, we will offer best practices in the provision of spiritual care TGNC patients.  We will also present a series of interactive training videos that train chaplains to recognize, assess, and meet the needs of TGNC patients in healthcare settings that aren’t specific to trans care.

Participants include:

Rabbi Jo Hirschmann, BCC serves as the Director of Spiritual Care and Education for Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Mount Sinai Downtown in New York City, and she is an ACPE Certified Educator with the Center for Spirituality and Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  She is a co-author, with Nancy Wiener, of Maps and Meaning: Levitical Models for Contemporary Care (Fortress, 2014).

Rabbi Max Reynolds is a chaplain at the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and The Mount Sinai Hospital.  His areas of interest are in palliative care, trauma, moral injury, trans affirmative spiritual care, and movement chaplaincy.