Clinical Pastoral Education Faculty

Mr. Thomas Y. (Ty) Crowe, II, M.Div., is the Interim Director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Pastoral Care Department and Manager of the CPE program at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  He was ordained a Teacher in the Shadhiliyya Sufi Order in 1998, and studied Sufism from both books and experientially as a member of a diverse Sufi Community in California.  He was one of the original attendees at the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism, then held in Santa Rosa, California.  Mr. Crowe began his career as a chaplain in Sacramento, taking his first units of CPE at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento.  He is a certified Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Supervisor.  Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Mr. Crowe worked as Coordinator of Clinical Pastoral Education at Sutter Medical Center, in Sacramento, California, for four years.  He was also the part-time chaplain for the Sutter Center for Psychiatry. 

Mr. Crowe also brings a management perspective to his supervision, having worked for three years as General Manager of a large building supply company in Florida.  In addition to this work, he also supervised CPE students.  He has supervised CPE students in multiple settings including Baptist Health in Jacksonville, Florida; at Vitas Hospice in Ormond Beach, Florida; and at Tallahassee Memorial in Tallahassee, Florida.  Mr. Crowe has a passion for competent spiritual care, the professional development of his students, and making uncomfortable learning creative and fun. 

The Rev. Dr. Paula Teague, D.Min., M.B.A., B.C.C., is the Director of Pastoral Care at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.  She is a Society of Friends (Quaker) minister and has been a certified Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) Supervisor since 1989.  She holds the Artium Baccalaureus from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina; the Master of Divinity from The Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana; and the Doctor of Ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia.  She holds a Master in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University. 

Dr. Teague’s interests include the integration of spiritual care with the disciplines of palliative care, pediatric medicine, and ethics.  Paula has recently published a response to a featured article on Physician Assisted Suicide in the Caregiver Journal from the Association for Professional Chaplains and has co-authored a paper on disaster training for ministers.  She has served in various leadership roles within ACPE and is currently the Treasurer for the Association.  Paula has been a certified ACPE, Inc. Supervisor for over twenty years and a Board Certified Chaplain since 1989.