Henk Jochemsen, Ph.D.
Dr. Jochemsen studied Molecular Biology at the Agricultural University in Wageningen, then completed his dissertation on pre-clinical cancer research at the State University in Leiden. With the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, he and his family pioneered in student work in Paraguay. He also lectured in Molecular Biology at The National University in Asunción, and in Christian Ethics at a Bible College in Asuncidn. Returning to The Netherlands and becoming director of the Prof. dr. G.A. Lindeboom Institute, a medical ethics center, Dr. Jochemsen has written and edited mainly Dutch articles, reports and books, has taught medical ethics at a theological college, and frequently speaks in Dutch and international settings. A member of the Federation of Associations of Patients with Congenital Diseases ethics commission, he advises other Dutch health care organizations. From 1992-1996 he was a member of the Board of Administration of the European Association of Centers of Medical Ethics, and as a board member since 1996 he leads research at the Institute for Culture Ethics in Amersfoort. He also is a member of the Netherlands Christian Reformed Churches Aid Commission. Since January 1, 1998, Dr. Jochemsen has taught Christian medical ethics as the Lindeboom chair for medical ethics at the Free University in Amsterdam.
David B. Larson, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Dr. Larson has amassed more than 200 research publications, including many scholarly systematic literature reviews. He has directed seven innovative conferences drawing leading researchers to explore and demonstrate the centrality of spirituality for health and mental health care. He is president and a founder of the National Institute for Healthcare Research (NTHR), which is committed to spirituality and health. Dr. Larson is a Duke University trained psychiatrist, geriatrician, and epidemiologist. He formerly served as a senior researcher in the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Mental Health Services Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. In addition, he holds adjunct professorships of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences at both Duke University Medical Center and Northwestern University Medical School, and also serves as an adjunct professor of preventive medicine and biometrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric and the Southern Psychiatric Associations, and is often consulted by the national media. He has been featured on such programs as ABC’s “Good Morning America” and “World News Tonight,” and in various print media including lime, U.S. News and World Report, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today.