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Center for Spiritual Care Staff
Spiritual Care Team:
The staff and volunteers of University Hospital’s Center for Spiritual Care team include:
Kneeling, clockwise from left: Rev. Terry Ruth Culbertson; Rev. Alfred Bebel; Kathy Ball (Roman Catholic Diocesan chaplain);* Rev. Jerald Shave and Rev. Louise Tallman-Shepard.
Standing, from left: Violeta Cuenca;* Rev. Luciano Plaza;* Shirley Hermann,* Helen Filipsack,* William Billingham DDS,* Rev. W. John Hottenstein,* Elder James Rudisell,* Patricia Hottenstein* and Pastor Marilyn Plaza.*
*spiritual care volunteers
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Spiritual Care Staff |
Spiritual Care Manager
Rev. Terry Culbertson |
315 464-4236 |
culbertt@upstate.edu |
Chaplains
Sister Anne McNulty
Father Ejike Innocent Onyenagubo |
315 464-4687
315-464-5595 |
mcnultya@upstate.edu
onyenage@upstate.edu |
Senior Pediatric Chaplain
Rev. Louise Shepard |
315 464-5183 |
shepardl@upstate.edu |
Pediatric Chaplain
Rev. Betsy Spaulding |
315-464-4687 |
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Spiritual Care Manager
Rev. Terry Culbertson previously served as director of pastoral care for the Interreligious Council of Central New York and managing chaplain of Crouse Hospital, and has worked for Hospice of Central New York, Loretto and Manor Healthcare Corp. Rev. Culbertson is the area’s only board certified chaplain with the Association for Professional Chaplains.
In addition, she has recently achieved national certification as a Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. Requirements for certification include a seminary degree, ordination/faith endorsement, a clinical pastoral residency, 5-7 years of post-graduate supervisory training and appearances before the regional and national ACPE Certification Commissions. Rev. She is the only certified ACPE supervisor in CNY and Upstate is CNY's only training site for Clinical Pastoral Education through a satellite agreement with Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Brunswick, NJ.
Chaplains
 Father Ejike Innocent Onyenagubo, or "Father Innocent", as he likes to be called, is a native of Nigeria and an ordained Roman Catholic priest. He has been in Syracuse since 1999, and most recently served as Parochial Vicar at Immaculate Heart of Mary in Liverpool. Fr. Innocent is a graduate of Upstate's Clinical Pastoral Education training program, where he interned in neurology, oncology and cardiology. His office is located in UH 1224 next to the Chapel in the first floor lobby.
Sister Anne McNulty, has been a Franciscan Sister for 38 years, and has been a teacher, parish minister and Hospice Chaplain. Born in Riverside, NJ, she received her BA in Education from Catholic University of America and an MA in Theology and Pastoral Ministries from the University of Dayton. Sr. Anne completed her Clinical Pastoral Education training at Our Lady of Lourdes, Binghamton, NY and the Hazelden Foundation in Center City, Minnesota.
Senior Pediatric Chaplain
 Rev. Louise Shepard is a clinically trained chaplain who will divide her time assessing and integrating spiritual care with Pediatrics at University Hospital.
Rev. Shepard has become certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement (CT) through the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC). The Association for Death Education and Counseling  is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in death education, care of the dying, and bereavement counseling and support. Rev. Shepard joins Upstate's other Certified Thanatologists Karen Dudzinski, RN, CT, PSL, Pediatric Intensive Care and the Rev. Terry Culbertson, MDIV, BCC, CT, Director of the Center for Spiritual Care.
Pediatric Chaplain
 Rev. Betsy Spaulding, an ordained Unitarian Universalisst minister who trained at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, serves as the weekend Pediatric Chaplain, strengthening the continuity of spiritual care that is provided by Rev. Louise Shepard. Rev. Spaulding will be on site Saturday and Sundays, 4 hours each day, providing direct spiritual care visits with pediatric patients and families on all inpatient pediatric units.
This position is being funded thanks to a generous grant from the Children's Miracle Network provided by a portion of the proceedings from the Father-Daughter Ball, held February 2006.
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