Mark Lazenby

Mark Lazenby is an Associate Professor of Nursing. In addition to holding a Master’s of Science in Nursing, specializing in oncology, from Yale School of Nursing, he also holds a Master’s in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Boston University. Immediately after graduating from YSN in 2009, he worked as a Fulbright Scholar at the King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC) in Amman, Jordan, where he and his colleagues are researching the role of religion and spirituality in the well-being of cancer patients treated at KHCC. He has translated into Arabic and validated a questionnaire that assesses spiritual well-being of those with life-limiting illness.  He is particularly interested in the phenomenon of existential distress at the time of death of those who consider themselves religiously devout. With American Cancer Society and Milbank Foundation funds, he is developing a spiritually sensitive palliative care intervention for Muslims who are in treatment for cancer in the U.S.