CURRICULUM VITAE Judit Gellérd, MD Boston University,
School of Theology 146 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02116 617 - 536 5576 zizi315@yahoo.com |
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EDUCATION
MTS Boston
University School of Theology, Theology-Ethics, 2002 January [with professional focus on
Medical Ethics, Bioethics, and aspects of healing and brain functions]
• Boston
Theological Institute Certificate in Science and Religion: Religion and Bioethics, 2001
(courses taken at Boston University and Harvard)
MD Medical
University of Tirgu Mures, Romania, 1973
• Specialization in Psychiatry, Budapest, Hungary,
1986
• Specialization in Neurology, Budapest, Hungary,
1981
BA. Music
Conservatory of Tirgu Mures, Romania, violin, 1967
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all with summa cum laude or equivalent.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
1. Medicine
Practiced Internal Medicine in Romania, 1973-1978 as intern and
assistant professor
Practiced Neurology and Psychiatry in clinics of Budapest,
Hungary, 1978-1987
Subspecialties: EEG,
Clinical Pharmacology
Highest professional rank: adjunct professor
Participated in local and international neurological conferences,
presenting papers on clinical research of brain tumors.
2. Religion
Co-Director of the Center for Free Religion in Chico, CA.,
1988-present. As a full-time volunteer, single-handedly organized the Partner Church
Program, a nationwide movement among US and Canadian Unitarian Universalist churches to
support minority people in Transylvania (Romania) and in Hungary. Since 1988 she has been working with 400 churches
in the US and Eastern Europe. Today the
program is officially recognized as “the largest and most significant Unitarian
Universalist grassroots movement of the twentieth century.”
General Secretary and founder of the Unitarian Universalist
Partner Church Council, 1993-2000; Honorary President of the same organization since 2000.
3. Professional Writer
and Translator
Under the guidance of Prof. Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate, currently writing a book of testimony about communist persecution in Eastern
Europe
Published several articles in Hungarian literary journals
Translation of English-Hungarian-Romanian materials, both
scholarly and professional
LANGUAGES
STUDIED
Hungarian--mother tongue English--fluent Romanian--fluent |
French--reading Latin--reading Russian--eight years of compulsory study under communism |
AWARDS,
HONORS, GRANTS
Honorary Doctorate (Litterarum
Humanorum Doctor) from Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA, 1995
Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council Distinguished Service Award, 1999
Unitarian Universalist Association Funding Program awarded eight
grants toward publications, video-film production, and rare manuscript preservation projects
Ranked first in medical school’s graduating class in Romania,
won numerous national professional competitions and subsequent clinical practice
privileges
LECTURES
AND PROGRAMS
Organized and lead the Partner Church Council for twelve years,
designed and guided dozens of educational, economical revitalization, and psychotherapy
programs for minority churches in Transylvania
Presented programs in more than 60 Unitarian churches of the
United States and England.
Regular speaker in Unitarian Universalist General Assemblies,
district conferences, fundraising events, as well as at IARF (International Association
for Religious Freedom) World Congresses
Academic lectures and presentations on Transylvanian Unitarian
history and theology:
- Meadville Lombard Unitarian Theological School, Chicago, IL,
1992
- Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA, 1996
- Andover Newton Theological School, Boston, MA, 1999
Guest lecturer at Harvard Divinity School on Nepal’s Kumari
cult and animal sacrifice, 2001 (joint research project with my husband)
Team-teaching and interpreting my husband, Prof. George M.
Williams, during 1992 and 1993 fall semesters, a model course in the academic study of
religion at József Attila University of Szeged, Hungary and University of Pecs, Hungary. According to the American Academy of Religion, this
may have been the first non-confessional or non-ideological course in an Eastern European
university
Conducted “spiritual renewal” workshops in Transylvania after
the breakup of communism using my skills as a psychiatrist.
Presented paper at international “Gyorgy Enyedi” conference,
Kolozsvár, Romania, 1997
As a classical violinist, gave numerous mini-recitals in the US
and Japan; with her Medical Orchestra of Budapest, she played numerous concerts all over
Europe; she has been a member of several prestigious choirs of Budapest, Chico, Ca, and
Boston, touring in Europe and in the US.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs:
A History of Transylvanian
Unitarianism Through Four Centuries of Sermons by Imre Gellerd (Chico, CA: Uniquest,
1999). Translated by Judit Gellerd. (Also on CD-ROM).
Edited volumes:
Ending the Storm: UU
Sermons on Transylvania, Judit Gellerd, ed. (Chico, CA: Uniquest, 1996)
Unitarianism in Hungary in
the Nineteenth and twentieth Centuries, by Jozsef Ferencz. Judit Gellerd ed. (Chico, CA: Center for Free
Religion, 1991)
Articles Published or
in Press (selective):
"Religiosity and Health in Community Dwelling Elderly:
Possible Role of the Frontal Lobes in Mediating Effects of Religiosity on Health" by
Patrick McNamara, Jensine Andresen, Judit Gellérd, (in press in Journal of Gerontology).
Graduation from Boston University School of Theology:
