NEW YORK ZEN CENTER FOR CONTEMPLATIVE CARE

CO-PRESIDENTS

Robert Chodo Campbell, HHC, is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He serves on the Core Faculty for the Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Programs. Chodo is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is Co-Director of Contemplative Care Services for the Department of Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. Chodo brings his life experience and his Zen and psychoanalytic study to his teachings in the areas of: anxiety and depression, drug and alcohol abuse, and contemplative approaches to care. He began formal Zen training in 1994 and currently he is a Soto Zen Buddhist Priest, at Village Zendo. He gives plenary addresses, workshops and retreats in a variety of settings from corporations to national healthcare conferences.

Koshin Paley Ellison, MFA, LMSW, is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. He serves as the Director of Training for the Center’s Buddhist Contemplative Care Programs. He is a ACPE Chaplain Supervisory Resident. Koshin is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is a co-founder of the Buddhist Psychotherapy Collective. Koshin is currently a Jungian Analyst Candidate at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. He is the Co-Director of Contemplative Care Services for the Department of Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center. Koshin began Zen practice over twenty years ago, and he is a Senior Soto Zen Buddhist Priest, at the Village Zendo. He gives plenary addresses, workshops and retreats on contemplative based approaches to leadership and care, and meditation in a variety of settings from corporations to national healthcare conferences.

BOARD CHAIR

Gerry McConnell has significant experience in the fields of finance, investment banking and private equity investment with a special focus on socially responsible investing. Gerry spent over 10 years as an investment banker providing strategic advice and raising capital for a range of clients operating in industries such as media and telecommunications, technology, manufacturing and retail. Beginning in 2000, Gerry was a senior partner at a private equity firm which pursued a socially responsible investment strategy of supporting and partnering with organized labor to invest in U.S. based manufacturing companies. More recently, Gerry has organized and raised capital for the creation of renewable and sustainable energy companies in the United States and Brazil. Gerry's current focus is on harnessing the capital and creativity of the private sector to address social problems. Gerry has participated on the Boards of several large private and public companies and is currently on the Board of Brenco, Inc. (Brazilian Renewable Energy Corp.), Hawaii Bio-energy, llc and Cilion, Inc. He also serves on the board of the McConnell Family Foundation. Gerry has been a meditator and student of Buddhism for over six years. Gerry is currently a student of Roshi Enkyo O'Hara, at the Village Zendo.

Rande Gail Brown was a founding board member and formerly the Executive Director of the Tricycle Foundation, publisher of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, America's leading Buddhist magazine. She is also president of East West Communications, a company that facilitates cultural understanding between Japan and the United States. A well-known translator of Japanese spiritual and cultural texts, she most recently co-authored the New York Times bestseller Geisha, A Life with Mineko Iwasaki (Atria, 2002).

Martin H. Ehrlich, MD, MPH, Licensed Acupuncturist, is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician at The Beth Israel Continuum Center for Health and Healing. A graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and School of Public Health and The American College of Acupuncture and Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine; he practices Integrative Medicine, combining the best of Eastern and Western traditions to provide patients with effective modalities to promote healing and well being. He studies, practices and teaches nutrition, yoga, meditation relaxation and breath awareness.

Anne Moses is currently the corporate director for community health education and outreach for Continuum Health Partners. Continuum is the parent organization for St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and Long Island College Hospital. As director she is responsible for the development and implementation of programs designed to improve health outcomes for the residents of the communities served by Continuum member hospitals.

Joshua Mitsunen Moses, MA, is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has an MA from Cornell University and is currently a Ruth L. Kirchstein Fellow with the National Institute of Mental Health. He has worked on research projects funded by the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Fogarty Foundation and the Kellogg Foundation. For the past three years he has been studying the role of religious and spiritual care in times of disaster. He has been practicing Buddhism for the past twenty years and is currently a student of Roshi Enkyo O’Hara at the Village Zendo. His interests include the anthropology of health and illness, the history of mind/body medicine, health and inequality and culture and mental health. He is particularly interested in the use and misuse of Buddhism in American healthcare.