Florence Gelo, D.Min., NCPsyA

Associate Professor

  • Department: Family, Community, and Preventive Medicine 
  • Specialty: Death and dying; palliative care; religion/spirituality and medicine 
  • Education:  D.Min, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary;  NCPsyA, Philadelphia School for Modern Psychoanalysis
Biography

Dr. Gelo is the behavioral science coordinator for the Family Medicine residency program and the recipient of funding to establish a curriculum around religion, spirituality and medicine. She is the co-recipient of a grant from the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health for work in medicine and spirituality with family medicine residents. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications in journals, including the Hastings Center Report, the Journal of Pastoral Care and the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Gelo is also a pastoral psychotherapist in private practice specializing in grief and loss and chronic illness. She serves as a guide at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Watch Dr. Gelo in "The Heart of Empathy" video (WMV)

 

Contact

  • Queen Lane Campus
  • 2900 Queen Lane
    Philadelphia, PA 19129
    Phone: 215-991-8469
  • Fax: 215-843-6028

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