Linda S. Golding, M.A., BCC

Linda Golding received her Masters Degree in Jewish Studies and the Certificate in Pastoral Care and Counseling from the Jewish Theological Seminary (NYC) in Spring 2013 and became a Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains in 2014.

Golding has served as Staff Chaplain at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center since 2010, caring for patients, family and staff throughout the adult and children’s hospital and was appointed Coordinator of Pastoral Care for Milstein Hospital in 2015.

She is an adjunct professor in the Bioethics program at Columbia University and at the Jewish Theological Seminary.  Publications include Spiritual Care with Non-Communicative Patients (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2019) and “The Evolving Role of Hospital Chaplains at the End of Life” co-authored with The Reverend Martha R. Jacobs in Our Changing Journey to the End (Praeger/ABC-CLIO 2014).