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C. Ronald Phelps (Rev. 4/2005)
In 1986 he
was appointed as Director of the National VA Chaplain Training
Center in Hampton, Virginia where, in addition to his
administrative responsibilities, he was principal lecturer at
the Chaplain School and coordinated a major segment on
biomedical ethics. He has been a major ethics issues presenter
in medical grand rounds at the Allen Park and Hampton VA Medical
Centers as well as Wayne State University School of Medicine and
the Eastern Virginia Medical School. As Deputy Director,
Chaplain Phelps has played a major role in the reorganization of
the National Chaplain Service and its outplacement to Hampton,
Virginia and the establishment of the National Center for
Excellence in Chaplaincy. |
Chaplain Phelps was appointed Deputy
Director,
Chaplain Service for the Department of Veterans Affairs in
September 1992. Following nine quarters of Clinical Pastoral
Education including one year with the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
Chaplain Phelps began his VA career as staff chaplain at the
Allen Park Michigan VA Medical Center in 1965. He was appointed
Chief of Chaplain Service at that facility in 1978 and assumed
responsibilities as Co-Chair of the medical center's ethics
committee and was appointed as a field education supervisor for
St. John's Provincial Seminary in Plymouth, Michigan.