Rev. Alice Cabotaje, MDiv., BCC, ACPE Certified Educator
Director of Spiritual Care

Alice Cabotaje comes to Stanford Health Care with several years of leadership experience in strategic planning, interdepartmental program development, staff training and education.

Alice is a Certified Educator from the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and a Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC).  

Prior to Stanford Health Care, Alice was Director of Spiritual Care and Education at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, Massachusetts. Before MGH, she was at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center where she served as a Chaplain and underwent supervisory education to become an ACPE Certified Educator of Clinical Pastoral Education. 

She is an Ordained Minister with the Metropolitan Community Church and an authorized Zen Teacher and Dharma Heir in the Rinzai Zen School Empty Cloud lineage.  She has a Master of Divinity from the Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of the Philippines.

Prior to her move into health care leadership and Chaplaincy, she was a Financial Journalist for 20 years and covered the economies and capital markets of Asia, North and South Americas.