The chaplains at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center provide spiritual care to all people regardless of their religious affiliations. You do not have to belong to a faith congregation or even consider yourself religious to request a chaplain. We are here to visit you and your loved ones while you are an inpatient, as well as meet you during one of your clinic visits.
You can reach any member of the Spiritual Care Team at 716 845-8051.
Visiting Clergy
Deacon Phil Hubbell • Lutheran Church
Rev. Sandra Palmer * • Word of Life Ministries
Rev. Ray Schooler • American Baptist Churches
Deacon Bill Walkowiak • Roman Catholic
Life Recorded
Carol Borom
Zachery Connerton
Marina Fery
Bonnie Cohen
Joesph Tripodi
Spiritual Care Visitors
Rose Aldrow
Linda Ashline *
David Beam
Rev. Geraldine Boyland and Minister of Communion
Louise Dessert and Eucharistic Minister
Nadine Iannarelli and Eucharistic Minister
Louise Lougen and Eucharistic Minister
Jenny Ohar *
Fran Phillips and Eucharistic Minister
Christine Porto * and Eucharistic Minister
Melanie Scherer * and Eucharistic Minister
William Wilson
Mantha Wyse and Eucharistic Minister
*Designates Bereavement Team
Ministers of Holy Communion
Deborah Allen
Dianne Barrali
Diane Caruana
Catherine Cipolla
Ann Deck
Charlie Decker
Mary Kowal
Sheldon Lenahan
Michael Szematowiez
Audrey Walkowiak
Secretarial Staff
Sandra Palmer
Claudia Lawler
Community Denominational Support
Anglican
Fr. Arthur Ward
Anglican (Anglo Catholic)
Rev. Edward Ihde
AME (African Methodist Episcopal)
Reverend Richard Stenhouse
AME (African Methodist Episcopal Zion)
Rev. Cary Beckwith
Asian/Vietnamese
Peter Lee
Baptist
Pastor Ivan Crossno
Rev. John Staples
Rev. Michael Chapman
Buddhist
Ray Eigen Ball
Chinese
Yongrong Zhang
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Stake President Nathan Pace
Bishop Dan Desrosiers
Episcopalian
The Very Rev. Derrick Fetz
Rev. Leann McConchie
The Rev Ann M. Tilman
Greek Orthodox
Rev. Dr. Christos Christakis
Hindu
Vijay Chakravarthy
Hispanic
Luz Milagros Ramos
Rev. Samuel Rivera (Pentacostal)
Native American
Rev. Thunder Silk
Islam
Imam Dawood Adeyola
Jehovah's Witnesses
Gary Griffin
Judaism
Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein
Korean
Rev. Cheong-il Bak
Non-Denominational (Elim Christian Fellowship)
Rev. Betty P. Williams
Orthodox
Rev. Jason Vansuch
Presbyterian
Rev. John Long
Roman Catholic
Jesuit Fathers at St. Michaels Church
Rev. Fred Hinton
Rev. Paul Sabo
Rev. Richard DiGiulio
Russian Orthodox
Fr. Volodymyr Zablotskyy
Unitarian Universalist
Rev. Joan Montagnas
Unity Church in Buffalo
Rev. Mary Masters