Chaplain Linda S. Golding received her Masters Degree in Jewish Studies and the Certificate in Pastoral Care and Counseling from the Jewish Theological Seminary (NYC) in Spring 2013 and became a Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains in 2014

Golding has served as Staff Chaplain at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center since 2010, caring for patients, family and staff throughout the adult and children’s hospital.  She is the chaplain member of the hospital’s Ethics Committee and its Organ Donor Council and leads regular didactics for chaplains, nurses, doctors and medical students.

Named a member of the inaugural 2020-21 REACH fellowship program sponsored by NewYork-Presbyterian and ICAP under the aegis of the Dalio Center for Health Justice, Golding also leads the 2021 Luce Foundation funded program THE BODY KNOWS, a pilot to provide support to frontline hospital staff.

She is an adjunct professor in the Bioethics program at Columbia University where she teaches HOPE, MEANING AND CLINICAL ETHICS, at JTS (PASTORAL TORAH OF DYING AND DEATH), and upcoming at Union Theological Seminary (PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR CHAPLAINCY AND MINISTRY.)

Publications include Spiritual Care with Non-Communicative Patients  (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019) and “The Evolving Role of Hospital Chaplains at the End of Life” co-authored with The Reverend Martha R. Jacobs in Our Changing Journey to the End (Praeger/ABC-CLIO 2014).

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