The Rev. Tamekia A. Milton, M.Div.

Clinical Pastoral Education Program Manager

Phone: 410-614-4154
Email: [email protected] 

An ordained Baptist minister and and certified ACPE educator, she is the Program Manager for Clinical Pastoral Education.  Tamekia formerly supervised chaplaincy students at Hampton VA Medical Center in Virginia and Brookwood Baptist Health System (Alabama), where she also was the cancer center chaplain.  Previously she served as an associate pastor and youth pastor, and remains active in local church ministry.  She holds a bachelor of arts degree in music performance and education from Clark Atlanta University (Georgia), and a master of divinity from Emory University Candler School of Theology in Atlanta. 

Moira Bucciarelli, MTS, BCC

Outpatient Chaplain, Harry J. Duffey Patient and Family Services Program
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Phone: 443-287-2900
Email: [email protected] 

Outpatient Oncology chaplain, who has been trained in compassion-based spiritual care at Emory University as a spiritual health fellow in outpatient oncology. Moira serves patients with cancer and their caregivers in the ambulatory settings at Johns Hopkins Weinberg and Viragh buildings, Bayview and Green Spring Station. She graduated with a bachelor of arts from Oberlin College, and earned a masters’ in theological studies from Boston College. She is recently board certified with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains. She previously worked as a writer and editor in spirituality, biblical studies, and religion.

Rev. William E. Johnson, Jr.  

Community Chaplain

Phone: 410-550-7569
Email: [email protected]

Chaplain Johnson is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., a graduate degree from Howard University, Washington, D.C.; was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by Virginia University of Lynchburg, Lynchburg, Va. (formerly Virginia Seminary and College); and completed his Chaplain Residency with Johns Hopkins Medicine. As the Community Chaplain for the Johns Hopkins Health System Chaplain Johnson works to improve community health outcomes by connecting faith communities to health system resources, as well as providing compassionate spiritual care to patients and community members on behalf of various JHHS entities. Chaplain Johnson also serves as a Pastor of the Sharon Baptist Church of Baltimore. He served in various positions with Maryland State Government for 33 years giving leadership in areas of equity, equality and integrity; and was serving as Inspector General for Human Services at the time of retirement. He has held leadership positions in several civic, civil and human rights organizations, and is the recipient of several honors and citations for his service to the church and State.

The Rev. Dr. Paula Teague, D.Min., M.B.A., B.C.C. 

The Senior Director of the Academic Division, Director of the System Sponsored Clinical Pastoral Education program and Director of Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.  She is a Society of Friends (Quaker) minister and has been a certified Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Supervisor since 1989.  She holds the Artium Baccalaureus from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina; the Master of Divinity from The Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana; and the Doctor of Ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.  She holds a Master in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Teague’s interests include the integration of spiritual care with the disciplines of palliative care, pediatric medicine, and ethics.  Paula has recently published a response to a featured article on Physician Assisted Suicide in the Caregiver Journal from the Association for Professional Chaplains and has co-authored a paper on disaster training for ministers.  She has served in various leadership roles within ACPE and is currently the Treasurer for the Association.  Paula has been a certified ACPE, Inc. Supervisor for over twenty years and a Board Certified Chaplain since 1989.

Mr. Thomas Y. (Ty) Crowe, II, M.Div., B.C.C. 

The Director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy Department and the Assistant Director of the System Sponsored Clinical Pastoral Education program.  He was ordained a Teacher in the Shadhiliyya Sufi Order in 1998, and was a member of a diverse Sufi Community in California.   Mr. Crowe began his career as a chaplain in Sacramento, taking his first units of CPE at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento.  He is a certified Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Supervisor and Board Certified Chaplain.  Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Mr. Crowe worked as Coordinator of Clinical Pastoral Education at Sutter Medical Center, in Sacramento, California, for four years.  He was also the part-time chaplain for the Sutter Center for Psychiatry.

Mr. Crowe also brings a management perspective to his supervision, having worked for three years as General Manager of a large building supply company in Florida.  In addition to this work, he also supervised CPE students in multiple settings, including Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida; at Vitas Hospice in Ormond Beach, Florida; and at Tallahassee Memorial in Tallahassee, Florida.  Mr. Crowe has a passion for competent spiritual care, the professional development of his students, and making uncomfortable learning creative and fun.

Rev. Csaba Szilagyi, M.Div., MLA, MS 

The Director of the Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy Department at Johns Hopkins Medicine Howard County General Hospital and ACPE Certified Educator at Johns Hopkins Medicine. He earned graduate degrees in divinity from the Karoli Gaspar University (M.Div.), in management from Harvard University (M.L.A.), in education from the Johns Hopkins University (M.S.). He is a Ph.D. candidate and researcher at KU Leuven. Csaba is a member of the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), and an ordained minister in the Hungarian Reformed Church in America. 

Csaba’s previous roles included the manager of spiritual care and ACPE educator at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health (Indianapolis, IN) and the manager of bereavement services – overseeing spiritual, psychosocial and bereavement care – and hospice chaplain at VITAS Healthcare (Boynton Beach, FL). He completed CPE residencies at Northside Hospital and Saint Joseph’s Hospital (Atlanta, GA) and Certified Educator training at VITAS Healthcare. He provided spiritual care in diverse clinical settings such as neurology, cardiac ICU, perinatal, palliative care, hospice, and bereavement care. Csaba is an accomplished leader in developing and integrating spiritual care in health services as a valued aspect of care. He has taken strategic roles to support employee wellbeing and organizational development. 

Csaba has led several funded research projects. He is particularly interested in interprofessional spiritual care education and understanding chaplains’ collaborative and leadership roles in interprofessional practice. Regarding CPE, he leads two nationwide studies: one to examine the impact of COVID-19 on CPE and another to investigate changes in Emotional Intelligence associated with CPE. He developed research literacy education and curriculum in CPE. He served on the ACPE Research Committee to promote CPE research and evidence-based practice.

The Rev. Tamekia A. Milton, M.Div. 

The Program Manager for the Clinical Pastoral Education program at Johns Hopkins Medicine. She also is involved in community education in the Baltimore area as an extension of her role. She is an ordained Pastor in the Baptist tradition and a certified Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Educator. Prior to coming to Hopkins, she supervised chaplaincy students at Hampton VA Medical Center in Hampton, Virginia, and Brookwood Baptist Health System in Birmingham, Alabama, where she also served as the chaplain for the cancer center. An ordained Baptist minister, Tamekia formerly served as an associate congregational pastor and youth pastor, and is still actively involved in local church ministry.

An accomplished musician, Rev. Milton holds the bachelor of arts degree in music performance and education from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned the master of divinity degree from Emory University Candler School of Theology in Atlanta.

Rev. Keith W. Wakefield, M.Div. 

Keith is an Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Certified Educator and Chaplain at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. After thousands of hours spent at the bedside of thousands of patients, he realized that he is a Chaplain and Educator because of Guns n' Roses. Music and lyrics informed his early childhood, instilling a sense of beauty, creativity, and an overwhelming sense of awe that words can evoke powerful expressions and meanings.

"But if someone really cared, they would take the time to spare
A moment to try and understand another one's despair."

Keith is also an award winning documentary filmmaker. His first film, A Certain Kind of Light is a documentary short that received six best short documentary awards and aired on PBS in 2017. His second film, G-Ride: The Mike Griffith Story was also an award winning short documentary, winning two best short documentary awards and an award for "Best Editing."

Keith is currently in the Professional Doctorate in Health programme at University of Bath, England and researching the connection between healthcare chaplains and vicarious trauma.

Keith is married to Shuang Yu and together have a young son who teaches them how to live in the present and to never apologize for expressing their true feelings and emotions.

Andreas Andreou 

A Buddhist chaplain seeking ordination in the Zen Soto tradition under Buddhist teacher and socially engaged activist Roshi Joan Halifax. His work as a chaplain teaches him every day that the only question that matters is, "Did I love well and was I loved?" Andreas answered the call to service four years ago, leaving a ten year corporate career as a researcher studying the impact of physical space design on work performance. As a self-taught photographer and filmmaker Andreas volunteered as a life legacy storyteller for DC Capital Caring Hospice and he was also commissioned by Joseph's House Hospice in Washington DC. Andreas interned for two years at Children's National Hospital in Washington DC and sits on the Children's National Ethics committee. He graduated from a two year interfaith chaplaincy program at Upaya Institute & Zen Center in Santa Fe, NM. Andreas is a Greek native and as a refuge himself has a special interest on the objectification of suffering and restoring humanness through storytelling. He completed his first unit of CPE at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center. Andreas holds a Doctorate in Knowledge Management from George Washington University School of Engineering & Management, an MBA from St. John's University NY, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Accounting from the University of Manchester, UK. 

Andrew J. Bethea (AJ)

Born and raised in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. A Seventh-day Adventist Christian, who earned his Bachelors in Religion at Washington Adventist University in 2015. While in seminary, in 2018 he completed his first unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Cleveland Clinic. He then earned his Master of Divinity degree, with a concentration in chaplaincy in 2021 at Andrews University. Andrew is passionate about spiritual care especially among youth and those dealing with neurological disorders. Currently, he serves as a Chaplain resident for The Johns Hopkins Hospital. 

Kevin B. Cox, Sr. 

Kevin B. Cox, Sr. was born in Maryland and has spent the majority of his life in Maryland. He is married and has 3 children. Before beginning his ministry career, Kevin was involved in the Lay Ministry of the local church for many years. Kevin earned a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Following his ordination as a Baptist minister (SBC), Kevin served in congregational ministry before completing a chaplain internship at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He is in the process of transitioning to full time chaplaincy. Kevin is currently the Chaplain Resident at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Meagan Downing 

Meagan P. Downing is originally from Virginia. In 2014, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcast Journalism from The Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University. In 2017, she graduated with a Masters of Divinity Degree from Yale University. In Meagan's Christian tradition, she was Licensed to Preach in April 2017. In August 2019, she was Ordained to Gospel Ministry. Whereas Meagan identifies theologically and spiritually with the Pentecostal tradition that characterized most of her upbringing, some of her more recent ministerial experiences have occurred in the Baptist tradition, including a three-year appointment as a Youth Minister, and ongoing youth mentorship and media-related ministry. Meagan's Level I CPE Internship and her First Yearlong CPE Residency both occurred with the Riverside Regional Medical Center (Newport News, VA) during August 2019 and June 2020 - June 2021, respectively.

Karyn Bergmann Marsh, M.Div., serves as a chaplain resident at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and is an affiliate minister at Towson Unitarian Universalist Church (TUUC). Prior to her residency, she served as a ministerial intern at All Souls Unitarian Church of Tulsa. She graduated from Starr King School for the Ministry in May 2020 and was granted preliminary fellowship by the Unitarian Universalist Association in April 2021. Prior to answering the call of ministry, she was an active lay leader of TUUC.

Hyiwot Teshome 

Hyiwot was born and raised in Ethiopia and steeped in the Ethiopian Christian Orthodox tradition. Hyiwot is nearing his seminary journey at Lancaster Theological Seminary and is on the ordination track in the Presbyterian USA denomination. Hyiwot is married with two sons and serves his church in Columbia, MD as an Elder. Hyiwot completed his CPE internship at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA.

Fall 2021 Anne Arundel Medical Center CPE Interns
Tanya Cooper-Johnson, Kim Henson, Heather Mendoza, Marie Saintil, Sarah Wilson, Kris Zyla

Spring 2022 Johns Hopkins Hospital CPE Interns
Bertilia Cadet, Viola Gainey, Theresa Jones, Michael O'Neill

Spring 2022 Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center CPE Interns
Nawal Alam, Warren Brown, Terri Dotterer, David Mandel, Justina Sergeon, George Winkfield