Board of Directors
About the Board
The Board determines and promotes the organization’s mission and vision for the profession and future of Catholic chaplaincy and Clinical Pastoral Education, sets policy, and assesses and approves certification standards, education, programs, and services that are appropriate to that mission and vision.
Executive Committee
Austine Duru MDiv MA, MHA, BCC, Board Chair
Chief Mission Integration Officer, Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach
Dr. Ruth Jandeska EdD, MA, BCC, Chair-Elect/Secretary
Vice President, Spiritual Health Services and Mission Services, Bon Secours Mercy Health
Antonina M.M. Olszewski MSQ, Treasurer
Vice President, Spiritual Care, Mission Integration, Ascension Health
Sedona T. Montelongo BCC-PCHAC
Palliative Care Chaplain, Pain and Palliative Associates
Erica Cohen Moore MA
Ex-Officio, NACC Executive DirectorMembers
Rev. Richard J. Bartoszek BCC
Retired; former Director of Spiritual Care, Corewell Beaumont Hospital Grosse Pointe
Rev. Lawrence X. Chellaian BCC
Senior Vice President of Mission Integration, CHRISTUS Health
Deacon Jack R. Conrad BCC
Retired; former Director of Spiritual Care, CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center
Allison DeLaney PT, MA, MPH, BCC-PCHAC
Chaplain, Ascension Health
Rev. John Onyenanu Ekeocha PhD, BCC
Priest Chaplain, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Dr. Caterina Mako ThM, DMin, BCC
Director of Spiritual Care, Chaplain Services, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine