Join our presenter CHRISTINA GOMEZ, MD and chaplains, The Very Rev. Miguelina Howell and The Rev. Dr. David K. McIntosh, for a weekend retreat focused around healing and listening, small groups, reflections, meals and social time.
Dr. Gomez’s book Stopped in My Tracks: A Physician’s Collection of Cancer Patients’ Quotes will be the touchstone for this retreat for those who have been affected by cancer: survivors, patients, caregivers, physicians-providers, clergy - all are welcome.
Christina Gomez, MD, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist, welcomes you into her exam room: the intimate place of encounter between patient and physician. In Stopped in My Tracks, she shares fifteen years of collected quotes from patients in the trenches of their cancer care. Their words are the art of medicine embodied. Far from a litany of symptoms, these patients’ words evoke the full spectrum of experience and emotion. For more information on Dr. Gomez please visit christinagomezmd.com
THE VERY REV. MIGUELINA HOWELL
serves as the 10th Dean and was Vicar of the Cathedral. She is a Chaplain to the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church. Miguelina leads spiritual retreats and serves as guest speaker and clergy mentor consultant across our denomination. She served for over a decade as member of the Episcopal Church Latino/Hispanic Ministries Missioner’s Council of the Advice. Miguelina served as member of the Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Church.
Miguelina is originally from the Dominican Republic where she holds a license in clinical psychology. After licensing as a clinical psychologist, she earned a theological degree from the Centro de Estudios Teológicos and was ordained a priest in 2003. Miguelina is passionate about social and racial justice as well as the intersection of spirituality and the arts. She finds joy in crafting liturgies that bring people closer to God, self, and others.
THE REV. DAVID K. MCINTOSH, MDIV, MD
is an accomplished preacher and teacher. Graduating with a BS in Zoology from Duke University, he then attended medical school at the University of Miami, and received speciality training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. After graduation from medical residency, he was exploring his call to priesthood and possibly monastic life and then met his husband Dan, an Episcopalian. After a move to Connecticut, David became an Episcopalian, rediscovering God’s love and a renewed call to priesthood. He attended the General Theological Seminary in New York City, where he received his Masters of Divinity.
David practices Pediatrics and Adult Internal Medicine in the Northwest Hills of CT, teaches medical students and seminary students through various venues and is active in regional community programs. He has served as priest for several parishes in NW Connecticut, and continues to serve as a ‘supply priest’ in various Episcopal and Lutheran parishes throughout the state. He had led several retreats in the area of Spirituality of Medicine and the Theologies of Suffering.
