Spirituality in the Medical Encounter: The Grace of Presence

Elizabeth Sutherland is a naturopathic doctor. She received her bachelor’s degree in biopsychology from Tufts University and her naturopathic medical degree from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland. She completed a two-year postgraduate fellowship through the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and is currently a research associate with that organization. She is a clinical investigator on the NIH-funded study, Alternative Medicine Approaches for Women with TMD, and the principal investigator on two pilot studies that examine the experiences of chronic pain patients at the Kaiser Permanente Northwest Pain Clinic who received an energy healing intervention. Her research interest centers on developing methodologies to study the doctor-patient relationship and transformational change, and she has published in this field. In the past, she studied Classics at Cambridge University.