Missy Roberts
MDiv
Missy provides spiritual and emotional support for oncology patients and their caregivers.
Titles and Roles
- Spiritual Health Clinician and Fellow
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Spiritual Health Provider
- Adrenal Cancer
- Anal Cancer
- Appendix Cancer
- Bladder Cancer
- Brain and Spine Tumors
- Breast Cancer
- Cervical Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer
- Esophageal Cancer
- Gallbladder Cancer
- Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Kidney Cancer
- Liver Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Lymphoma
- Melanoma
- Multiple Myeloma
- Neuroendocrine Tumors
- Ocular Melanoma
- Ovarian Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Penile Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Sarcoma
- Skin Cancer
- Stomach Cancer
- Testicular Cancer
- Thyroid Cancer
- Uterine Cancer
Biography
Missy Roberts, MDiv, is a Spiritual Health Clinician and Fellow at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Clifton campus). Missy provides spiritual and emotional support to oncology patients and their caregivers. She is passionate about trauma-informed care and accompanying people through crises as well as empowering them to step into their authentic selves and draw upon their unique strengths and gifts. Missy is a candidate for ordination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and has served in various multilingual, multicultural ministry contexts in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico.
Education
Missy earned her Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and completed her first chaplaincy training at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, where she fell in love with Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) and spiritual care in a hospital setting. She is thankful to have recently completed her chaplaincy residency at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System in South Carolina, where her learning centered around the Surgical Trauma Intensive Care, Neurological, and Behavioral Health units.