About the CPE Educator

Rev. Young-ki Eun started his CPE journey in 1999 at Toronto General Hospital, Canada. He completed his CPE Residency at New York Presbyterian - Cornell Medical Center, and his CPE Supervisory Training at the Health Care Chaplaincy, New York. He was certified by ACPE as an Associate Supervisor in 2009 and as a full-Supervisor in 2013. His work as a CPE supervisor includes New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Center, The Hospital of St. Raphael (now, Yale New Haven Hospital-St Raphael Campus), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, New York Theological Seminary and Ochsner Health System, New Orleans.

Rev. Eun is an ordained Presbyterian minister. He graduated from the University of Toronto/ Knox College with the Master of Divinity degree. He has also completed postgraduate studies in Theology, English, Linguistics, Psychoanalytic Studies, and a four-year clinical training in Psychotherapy.

As an ACPE Certified Educator, Rev. Eun has a passion for empowering chaplain residents and interns to gain a deeper connection with their authentic selves in a genuine, diverse and trustworthy learning environment. He also has a passion for empowering them to forge and strengthen their own personal and professional identity in their spiritual care ministry of compassion, narrowing the gap between embedded, confessed, and operational theology, along with the integration of head and heart.

Rev. Eun highly values genuine personal, professional relationships with empathy, mutual respect and mutual empowerment. He brings to Clinical Pastoral Education at Vanderbilt his twenty (20) years’ experience working as a CPE Educator, chaplain, university faculty member and parish minister. He enjoys swimming, listening to music and walking in the woods. He is married to Eun-Joo, an ordained Methodist minister from whom he continues to enhance his self-awareness on a daily basis!