Voices from the Margins: Reflections of an Oncology Chaplain with Michael Eselun

This episode is the third in a 3-part series of Living to 100 Club radio shows exploring oncology, patients with cancer, and their treatment. This episode focuses on spiritual care, and specifically inter-faith spiritual care. Our guest is Michael Eselun, a Board-Certified Clinical Chaplain and the staff chaplain and spiritual care specialist at the Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology. We will look at spirituality from different perspectives – what it means to different people, how it is experienced by patients with a cancer diagnosis, how it is an expression of the way individuals connect to God or a higher sense of power, and whether spirituality involves a “spiritual crisis” or not. We will also discuss Michael’s role offering support to patients and families during their own journey, and other dimensions to his work at the Center for Integrative Oncology.