Compassion Fatigue & Spiritual Resilience Symposium

9:00 am - Registration and continental breakfast

9:45 am - "Maintaining Wholeness in the Face of Challenges - the Role of Spiritual Resiliency" The Rev. Christopher L. Smith, LCAC, LMHC, LMFT, President and Clinical Director, Seeking Shalom, Chaplain, Stamford Hospital

10:45 am - "The Cost of Caring is Not Inevitable"  Maria Maldonado, MD, Director of Education for Cross Cultural and Patient Centered Communication, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

12:30 pm - Panel Discussion - Reflections on Spiritual Resilience from Different Faith Traditions:

• Bahá'í - Sara Hakim, Treasurer, Norwalk Bahá'í Community; Board Member, Interfaith Council
• Baptist - Reverend Dr. Michael G. Christie, Assistant to the Pastor and Minister of Prison Ministry, Union Baptist Church
• Buddhist - Jampa Gyalsten, Chaplain, Stamford Hospital
• Congregational - Rev. R. Maxwell Grant, Pastor, Second Congregational Church of Greenwich
• Jewish - Marie Orsini Rosen, Director of Philanthropy, The Nature Conservancy, CT Field Office; Vice-President, Interfaith Council
• Muslim - Shahrzad Mohammadi, MD, Stamford Hospital