Rizza Hohenstern
MPS, CSD
Rizza 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
Rizza Hohenstern, MPS, CSD, is a chaplain and spiritual health fellow at the Winship locations at Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Emory Johns Creek Hospital and Emory at Buford Clinic. She provides spiritual and emotional support for oncology patients and their caregivers. Rizza is a Certified Spiritual Director in the North Georgia area serving spiritual seekers across Christian denominations with a concentration in the Roman Catholic tradition. Rizza also serves as Spiritual Advisor for District 2 leaders of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Georgia ministry.
Education
Rizza earned her Masters of Pastoral Studies degree and Certificate of Spiritual Direction from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, and completed her residency with Emory Spiritual Health Johns Creek Hospital where she focused on patient, family, and staff care in the emergency, medical surgery, oncology, catheterization laboratory and same day surgery units.