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Kay Sandor, Ph.D., RN, LPC, AHN-BC

Associate Professor
School of Nursing

Associate Member
Institute for the Medical Humanities

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

ksandor@utmb.edu

Dr. Sandor is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Nursing at Galveston and an Associate Member of the Institute for the Medical Humanities. Her clinical and course responsibilities are in the baccalaureate and graduate nursing program. She is also one of the course directors for an interdisciplinary Spirituality and Clinical Care course, which she assisted in developing and teaches to medical and nursing students.

Dr. Sandor earned a nursing diploma from Mt. Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee, Wis., a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Marquette University in Milwaukee and a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, Okla. She earned her Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Texas at Austin and she completed her training in clinical psychology at the University of Houston at Clear Lake.

Dr. Sandor is a licensed professional counselor and psychotherapist and is a certified advanced practice holistic nurse. She has completed the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) training, a project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to train faculty and practitioners in Palliative Care. Her specialty as a nurse psychotherapist is grief and loss.

She is also a Veriditas ™ (The Voice of the Labyrinth Movement) labyrinth facilitator; training with Dr. Lauren Artress of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. She is the Chair of the Veriditas Labyrinth Research Interest Group, and she has facilitated over a hundred labyrinth walks for hospital staff, students, and community members. During the 2005-2006 academic year, Dr. Sandor completed a Fulbright Award teaching community and trans-cultural nursing in Hungary.

Dr. Sandor is currently completing an End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program at the Metta Institute where she is learning to be a compassionate presence at the bedside of dying persons. She has completed 150 clinical hours at the MD Anderson Palliative Care Unit and Hospice Care Team of Galveston County at part of the training program. She looks forward to sharing these important clinical skills with School of Nursing and IMH students at UTMB.

Recent publications include:

Sandor, M. K., & Froman, R. D. (2006). "Exploring the effects of walking the labyrinth." Journal of Holistic Nursing, 24 (2), 103-110.

Sandor, M. K., Sierpina, V. S., Vanderpool, H. V., & Owen, S. V. (2006). "Spirituality and clinical care: Exploring developmental changes in nursing and medical students." EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, 2 (1), 37-42.

Olson, M. M, Sandor, M. K, Sierpina, V. S, Vanderpool, H. Y., & Dayao, P. (2006). "Mind, body, and spirit: Family physicians' beliefs, attitudes, and practices regarding the integration of patient spirituality into medical care." Journal of Religion and Health.