Pictured L/R: Janedson Baima, MD; Vania Poti, MD; Anastácio de Queiroz Sousa, MD, PHD &
AnneMarie Wallace, President, PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE
Created in 2022, The Anastácio De Queiroz Sousa Spirituality in Healthcare Award, was established by PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE in collaboration with Anastácio De Queiroz Sousa, MD of Fortaleza Brazil in an effort to highlight the tremendous importance in the harmonization of medical care and spirituality by healthcare professionals in the many layers of the delivery of holistic medical care.
Click here for the Curriculum Vitae of Anastácio De Queiroz Sousa.
With a lifetime devotion to helping individuals suffering with infectious diseases, Dr. Sousa observed how quickly patients’ hopes for coping and healing were deeply congruent with their spiritual language, desire for prayer and a desire to know the spirituality of their attending physicians.
~ Criteria may include ~
- Adherence to one’s own spiritual expressions and practices
- Demonstrates respect and receptivity for the spiritual languages and spiritual practices of those with whom one is providing medical care and treatments
- Involves oneself directly in and/or collaborates in research on the inclusion of spirituality in the delivery of medical care
- Involves oneself directly in and/or collaborates in efforts to expand the dialogue on spirituality in medical care at healthcare and/or community settings
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
