Naomi Tzril Saks, MA, MDiv, BCC, serves as the inpatient palliative care chaplain at the Parnassus Heights campus. She teaches with all the professional schools at University of California, San Francisco and is the Director of the Individual and Collective Wellbeing Program for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. She is a board-certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains and was ordained as a Rabbinic Pastor by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi. She received a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, a Master of Arts degree in Business Management from Antioch University and completed seminary with ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. Prior to coming to UCSF, Naomi was Director of Spiritual Care at Kaiser Permanente, Greater Southern Alameda Area, co-founded the Pediatric Palliative Care Service at Kaiser Permanente, East Bay, and founded and directed a national non-profit educational organization focused on economic wellbeing for women and girls experiencing poverty. Naomi has a particular interest and expertise in love, professional sustainability, mindfulness/non-pharmacological interventions for pain and suffering, interprofessional education and practice, neurospirituality, nonduality, spiritual, religious, and existential justice and equity, humility and pluralism in healing, and health care disparities at end of life.