Mercy names new spiritual care leader
Posted: Sunday, January 14, 2007
Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City has announced that Jim Spencer will join the hospital as executive director of Mission Integration and Spiritual Care on Feb. 19.
Spencer will provide leadership in promoting and integrating Mercy's mission, values and spirituality throughout the organization and within the community. He will be involved in advocating for the underserved in the Siouxland area as well as supporting Mercy's pastoral care team. He also will serve on Mercy's ethics committee and will work collaboratively with others to develop and implement an effective community benefit ministry program.
Spencer is currently the mission and ethics leader at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City. He is also an assistant professor of ethics at Creighton University in Omaha and will continue to hold that position after joining Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City.
Spencer has earned a doctorate degree (candidate) in organization management and leadership ethics from Capella University in Minneapolis, a master's degree in administration and a master's degree in systematic theology from Saint Michael's College in Burlington, Vt., and a doctor of pharmacy degree from University of Southern California.
He is currently pursuing doctorate and master's degrees in bioethics and Catholic health care ethics at Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy. He anticipates the completion of his studies in February 2008.
In addition to serving as Mercy-North Iowa's mission and ethics leader since 2000, Spencer also served as a healthcare research assistant for U.S. Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt).
From 1980 through 1998, he was a pharmacist for a community hospital and home infusion provider in California.
An experienced keynote speaker, Spencer has presented addresses and lectures in Alberta Canada for Canadian Bioethics Week, and in Beirut, Lebanon, where he presented on pharmacogenomics and ethics at an international conference for pharmacists.
Spencer has been very active in his community. As president of the Northern Lights Alliance for the Homeless, he worked with the staff at the local homeless shelter to secure $2.75 million in funding for a men's homeless shelter, a transitional shelter and a newly opened women's shelter. He served as secretary for the Cerro Gordo, Worth and Hancock Empowerment Board and most recently served as a board member for Opportunity Village.
As a pharmacy student, Spencer received the Hubert H. Humphrey American Druggist Award for pharmaceutical care for the poor and underprivileged.
Spencer also enjoys volunteering time as a wrestling coach for both high school and middle school athletes.
Spencer will provide leadership in promoting and integrating Mercy's mission, values and spirituality throughout the organization and within the community. He will be involved in advocating for the underserved in the Siouxland area as well as supporting Mercy's pastoral care team. He also will serve on Mercy's ethics committee and will work collaboratively with others to develop and implement an effective community benefit ministry program.
Spencer is currently the mission and ethics leader at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City. He is also an assistant professor of ethics at Creighton University in Omaha and will continue to hold that position after joining Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City.
Spencer has earned a doctorate degree (candidate) in organization management and leadership ethics from Capella University in Minneapolis, a master's degree in administration and a master's degree in systematic theology from Saint Michael's College in Burlington, Vt., and a doctor of pharmacy degree from University of Southern California.
He is currently pursuing doctorate and master's degrees in bioethics and Catholic health care ethics at Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy. He anticipates the completion of his studies in February 2008.
In addition to serving as Mercy-North Iowa's mission and ethics leader since 2000, Spencer also served as a healthcare research assistant for U.S. Sen. James Jeffords (I-Vt).
From 1980 through 1998, he was a pharmacist for a community hospital and home infusion provider in California.
An experienced keynote speaker, Spencer has presented addresses and lectures in Alberta Canada for Canadian Bioethics Week, and in Beirut, Lebanon, where he presented on pharmacogenomics and ethics at an international conference for pharmacists.
Spencer has been very active in his community. As president of the Northern Lights Alliance for the Homeless, he worked with the staff at the local homeless shelter to secure $2.75 million in funding for a men's homeless shelter, a transitional shelter and a newly opened women's shelter. He served as secretary for the Cerro Gordo, Worth and Hancock Empowerment Board and most recently served as a board member for Opportunity Village.
As a pharmacy student, Spencer received the Hubert H. Humphrey American Druggist Award for pharmaceutical care for the poor and underprivileged.
Spencer also enjoys volunteering time as a wrestling coach for both high school and middle school athletes.
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