Orville A. Browne, Th.D., Clinical Pastoral Supervisor (CPS), supervises the  Community Clinical Pastoral Education/Supervision Services Center, LLC (CCPESSC) and brings to this work academic training in healthcare leadership, bioethics, pastoral care, and qualitative research training at the University of Toronto/Victoria and the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) Research Institute. He has been trained as a social scientist researcher and continues to serve as an Institutional Research Board member.

Dr. Browne’s research areas have been in Neonatology, Pediatric HIV ethics, and Pastoral Care. His recently published book, Living “Normal” with HIV: a Challenge for the Twenty-first Century, deals with the challenges of families living with pediatric HIV and makes a compelling case for their need for pastoral care and nurture.

Dr. Browne brings to his supervision over 31 years of pastoral experience in the parish, thirteen of which were combined with work as a hospital chaplain/researcher and four and a half years as a volunteer prison chaplain at the Toronto East Detention Centre. He has also spent 10 years in community outreach chairing the United Caribbean AIDS/Education Network (UCAN). UCAN sensitized and trained religious leaders regarding HIV transmission and prevention.

Dr. Browne has extensive experience working in a variety of settings in the hospital, including, on-call, trauma team, bedside, and ambulatory clinic chaplain. He has provided spiritual care to patients, families, and staff alongside Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Christian chaplains from both ecumenical (Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, United Church), along with evangelical (Pentecostal, Alliance) team members. Dr. Browne is endorsed as a healthcare chaplain and a CPE Supervisor by the Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries. He holds current pastoral counselor, clinical chaplain, and Diplomate Supervisor certificates from the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy, and a certificate from the Ontario Multi-faith Council as a Multi-Faith Chaplain. This council screens chaplains to ensure competency in interfaith and intercultural relations. While in Canada, Dr. Browne was a registered psychotherapist (RP) with the College of Registered Psychotherapist of Ontario. He speaks and writes both English and Spanish fluently.

From March 2011 to the present, Dr. Browne has supervised over 32 units of CPE as a diplomate and 10 as a training supervisor that has helped more than dozens of trainees to certification as Clinical Chaplains and/or Pastoral Counselors.

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