Adventist Forum: Elizabeth Johnston Taylor

Michiana Adventist Forum presents "Prayer and Illness: Evidence-Informed

Reflections" by Dr. Elizabeth Johnston Taylor from the Loma Linda

University School of Nursing, on Saturday afternoon at 3:30 pm,

September 19, 2015, in Chan Shun Hall on the campus of Andrews

University in Berrien Springs, MI.

Dr. Taylor is professor of nursing at Loma Linda University in

California.  Her clinical experiences as an oncology nurse created for

her a deep interest in the relationship between illness and

spirituality. She received her BS in nursing from Andrews University.  

In 1992, she earned her doctorate in nursing from the University of

Pennsylvania where she focused her studies on the psychosocial and

spiritual aspects of living with illness. Her expertise in researching

spirituality and health-related quality of life was further developed

during a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA School of Nursing.

In addition to academic studies, she has obtained clinical pastoral

education and training in spiritual direction.

She has published extensively on topics such as quality of life, ethical

decision making, pain management, and spiritual responses to illness.  

She is the author of three books:  "Religion: A Clinical Guide for

Nurses," (Springer, 2012), "What Do I Say? How to Talk with Patients

About Spirituality,"(Templeton, 2007), and "Spiritual Care: Nursing

Theory, Research, & Practice," (Prentice Hall, 2002).

She has also served as principal investigator on multiple government and

privately funded research projects.  She and her husband Lyndon, who is

principal second violin of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, have

two daughters.

Adventist Forum is open to the public.  All are welcome.  For

information, contact Art Robertson at robertsa2@earthlink.net or call

471-7150.