Catherine R. Seeley’s professional background includes healthcare administration, medical ethics, crisis, grief and transition. She also has been an educator/consultant for hospices, home healthcare agencies, long-term care facilities, hospitals, and healthcare systems around the country. During Catherine’s term as hospital vice president for ethics and mission, she instituted ethics education seminars for all employees, created the ethics consult team, conducted ethics rounds and wrote the organization's handbook, Mission, Integrity and Conduct in the Workplace. She created and chaired the Ethics Committee, served on the organization's institutional review board (IRB) and numerous other committees. Prior to her role as hospital vice president in Massachusetts, Catherine was director of bereavement services and served as chair of the Clinical and Organizational Ethics Committees at a fully accredited, two-hundred-bed palliative care specialty cancer hospital in New York for persons with advanced, acute cancer. A national and international lecturer in ethics, values and corporate integrity, and leadership and mission, she has served on adjunct faculties teaching courses on justice in society at Molloy College in Rockville Center, New York; in healthcare ethics and in life transitions and crisis management at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue, New York; and at the State University of New York Stony Brook School of Medicine’s Health Care Ethics Program. Catherine’s book of poetry about creation, conscience, change and hope, entitled Beauty Noticed, was released in 2020. Her article about the pandemic, “When Life Changes: Calming the Chaos of Crisis with Mindfulness,” will appear in the Winter 2021 volume of Listening: Journal of Communication, Ethics, Religion and Culture. She also is the author of articles in healthcare and ethics as well as a novel, Mea Culpa. Catherine Seeley is a graduate of Marywood University in Pennsylvania and of Fordham University in New York.