Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Team

Chris was raised in Amarillo, TX, and grew up the son of a pastor. While he was raised around ministry, Chris had no clue that hospital chaplaincy existed until he embarked upon his graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. Before graduating with his master’s degree in divinity in 2015, Chris spent a year working as a hospital chaplain intern. This is where he discovered his passion for spiritual care in a non-denomination hospital setting. Chris is passionate about providing spiritual and emotional support for all people of all spiritual backgrounds. Chris has completed four units of clinical pastoral education and is a board certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains. He also earned certification in hospital ethics consultation through the New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA) and has completed training as a hospice and palliative care chaplain. In addition to his work in hospitals, Chris is an ordained minister with the Presbyterian Church (USA). He enjoys leading worship in various churches when he is invited to speak or preach. After nearly 12 years in New Jersey, where he oversaw a hospital chaplaincy program, Chris and his family of five relocated to the Albuquerque area in 2024, where he joined the Presbyterian Health Spiritual Care team.

Chaplain Wolf Hillbo is an immigrant, a musician, and a Mennonite minister. He and his partner have four daughters in their mixed family, and a dog and a cat who seem to believe they are the same species. He has a diverse professional history, including working as a professional performing artist, opera singer, teacher, and vocal coach. He found his vocation for healthcare chaplaincy while serving as a paramedic.

Most of Wolf's formal education is in music, concluding with a dual master's degree in vocal performance and literature from the University of Notre Dame. He has held a handful of music and worship director positions since beginning his formal theological training in 2008. Since that time, he has also been a prolific contributor to teaching ministries in Christian and multi-faith contexts in the United States and Europe. He trained at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago and served as varsity sports chaplain for the North Park University Vikings. He completed his clinical pastoral education sequence with Ascension St. Thomas CPE-Consortium out of Nashville, Tennessee while serving as an associate chaplain in Ascension's Illinois area. He was an associate chaplain in seven Chicago area hospitals and was a staff chaplain in two of them. Before relocating to Albuquerque in 2023, Wolf was the Staff Chaplain devoted to behavioral health and staff relations at Ascension Saint Mary's Chicago, which is located in an under-resourced and underserved neighborhood on the city's West Side. He began serving with Presbyterian Health in 2024.

Donnel is a board certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains, and provides culturally sensitive and person-centered spiritual care to patients, families and staff of diverse faith traditions or no faith tradition at Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital. Using music, art and Spirit Play, he is passionate in facilitating multi-modal spiritual care support groups that are sensitive to the needs of neuro-diverse adolescents and adults in inpatient behavioral health, inviting others towards multivalent exploration of ancient myth and archetypes in modern human life. He earned a master’s degree in Divinity (2001) and a master’s degree in Art & Religion (2002) from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA, after completing an undergraduate degree in World Religion with a minor in Painting at Virginia Commonwealth University. After completing his hospital chaplaincy residency in San Francisco in 2003, he worked in student services for nine years, serving as a graduate school campus chaplain and as dean of students before returning to healthcare in 2015. He is married to an Episcopalian priest, an active lay leader, and has three children. He is a certified facilitator for Prepare Enrich (to support couples) & Walking the Mourner’s Path (grief support). He is a song leader for Music that Makes Community, and regularly leads music for a local hospice organization’s memorial services.

Tilia is an interfaith chaplain particularly dedicated to supporting the search for meaning/connection/personal growth, and consciousness expansion including along emotional, spiritual, cultural and personal lines. She is practiced in Shamanic Spirituality, Buddhism, Catholicism, Self-Realization Fellowship & Yoganada, New Thought Spirituality, ancient/current mysticism and other spiritual outlooks. Tilia is a licensed spiritual practitioner/assistant minister in Centers for Spiritual Living. In addition to greatly valuing personal connection, she also highly regards spirituality and energy in nature and animals.

Eric is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves under call at Presbyterian from the Rocky Mountain Synod of the ELCA. Eric was born and raised in the suburbs of Minneapolis, MN, before leaving for The Ohio State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. From there, he graduated with a Master of Divinity with a concentration in theological studies from Winebrenner Theological Seminary in Findlay, Ohio. He completed four units of Clinical Pastoral Education, completing a chaplain residency at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center, a level-1 trauma and academic medical center, finishing in 2013. There he was focused on trauma-related care, the emergency department, pediatric ICU, and the burn unit, and helped to integrate EMR into the spiritual care department. In 2014, he served at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was ordained as a pastor in 2015, serving racially and culturally diverse congregations in Massachusetts and Illinois, most recently completing a call as Pastor for Faith Formation at Grace Lutheran Church in LaGrange, Illinois. In 2018, Eric was awarded a Master of Theology with honors from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota for his work on pastoral theology and trauma. Eric is passionate about evidence-based spiritual care, trauma care, collaboration amongst multidisciplinary staff, palliative care, and chaplaincy amongst pediatric patients and their families. Eric and his family of four moved to Albuquerque from Chicago in 2025, where his wife now serves as a physician at the University of New Mexico, and joined the spiritual care team at Presbyterian shortly thereafter.