Overview
Linda S Golding, MA, BCC 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 and was appointed Coordinator of Pastoral Care for Milstein Hospital in 2015. She is an adjunct professor in the Bioethics program at Columbia University and at the Jewish Theological Seminary where she teaches pastoral care and bioethics.
Academic Appointments
- Lecturer in Professional Studies
Administrative Titles
- Staff Chaplain, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Languages
- French
- German
- Hebrew
- Spanish
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- Certificate, Pastoral Care and Counseling, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
- BA, 1979 Music History, Smith College, Northampton, MA
- MA, 2013 Jewish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
Committees, Societies, Councils
- 2011 - Present: Trustee, Corona Youth Music Project, New York, NY
- 2006 - 2012: Trustee, Virgil Thomson Foundation, New York, NY
- 2005 - 2015: National Committee, The Hermitage Artist Retreat, FL
- 2001 - 2008: Past Chairman, Trustee Meredith Monk’s, House Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
- 1999 - 2005: Board Member, Opera America, New York, NY
Honors & Awards
- 2020 - 2021: REACH Fellowship Program
- 2011 - 2013: Scholarship, Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women
- 2012 - 2013: Career Development Grant, Association of American University Women
- 2012: Scholarship, Blanksteen Family Foundation
Research
Golding’s research interests include the impact of spirituality on patients with chronic pain; the use of text as pastoral intervention; caregiver compassion fatigue; and the intersection of pastoral and medical bioethics.
Selected Publications
- Spiritual Care with Non-Communicative Patients
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019) - “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). - “Derech l’Shalom: A Path to Peace.”
(PlainViews 2015) - “A transdisciplinary group on pain and spirituality: A model.”
(PlainViews 2015)
For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov