Rev. Karin Van Vlack is a apiritual health clinician and fellow for Winship Cancer Institute at the Emory Proton Therapy Center. Karin provides spiritual and emotional support to patients with cancer treated with proton therapy. Additionally, she supports patients receiving palliative care at the Emory Outpatient Supportive Care Clinic. She enjoys helping to cultivate conditions for patients and their care partners to reflect on the relationships and practices that are most supportive and meaningful in their living.
Education
Karin is a graduate of the Zen Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program at Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The following year, she was ordained as a lay minister by Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD. She finished additional coursework at the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Starr King School for the Ministry. She completed clinical pastoral education internships at Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) hospitals before going on to completed a residency at CHI Franciscan Hospice and Palliative Care. She holds a certificate in end-of-life doula care.
