Founding President: Kristine Correira, DScPAS, MA Theology, MHP, PA-C, DFAAPA.

Kris has been a PA since 1993 working in emergency medicine, urgent care, and family practice. She is also a bioethicist. She is part of a coalition of medical professionals and disability advocates working to prevent the legalization of assisted suicide, and she helps people navigate end-of-life decisions and other bioethical questions.

She received her BA in both Biological Sciences and Computer Science from Wellesley College, PA certificate and MHP from Northeastern University, MA in theology – bioethics from Holy Apostles College and Seminary, and DScPA from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) in the education track. She also completed the National Catholic Bioethics Center Heath Care Ethics certificate program.

Kris has been married since 1998 and has three 3 adult sons that she homeschooled. She is a revert to the Catholic faith who was Confirmed in 2008. She runs her parish’s website, serves on the pastoral council, and is involved with the chapel at St. Vincent Hospital. She also volunteered for the local Catholic free care medical program.

Communications Officer: Jennifer S. Violette, PA-C, MSPA, DFAAPA

Jennifer is a physician assistant with over two decades of experience in internal medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, and urgent care. She has also served as an Assistant Professor in the Physician Assistant Program at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, CT, where she was honored to educate and mentor future healthcare professionals. Deeply committed to service, she has volunteered as a physician assistant with the Malta House of Care in Hartford, CT.

A lifelong Catholic, Jennifer is a product of Catholic education, having attended Catholic schools from sixth grade through graduate school, including Providence College and Seton Hall University. Her faith continues to shape both her professional and personal life. She is actively involved in her parish community as a youth ministry volunteer, former religious education catechist, and school volunteer, and she is the parent of two children currently enrolled in Catholic schools.

Jennifer is honored to be a member of the Catholic Advanced Practice Provider Association and to serve as an officer, where she supports the integration of faith, ethics, and excellence in healthcare.

Chaplain: Reverend Monsignor Peter Beaulieu, MA, STL

After completing theological studies at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Msgr. Peter Beaulieu was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Worcester in 1983. Following three years as associate pastor of Saint Rose of Lima Parish in Northborough, he returned to Louvain and completed his Licentiate in Moral Theology in 1987.

Upon returning to the United States, Msgr. Beaulieu was assigned to study moral philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois and underwent training in clinic ethics at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. Eventually, after five years of clinical and academic study, he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Philosophical Ethics and completed the doctoral coursework in the same field. After five years in Illinois, he returned to Massachusetts.

In 1992, and with ecclesiastical approbation, he accepted the duties as the Catholic chaplain at Memorial Hospital in Worcester and held that position until 1997. A that time, he was appointed Director of Pastoral Care at Saint Vincent Hospital in the same city. In each of those healthcare settings, he has served as either a member of the hospital Ethics Committee and, for the last twenty years, Msgr. Peter has been the Chair of the Saint Vincent Hospital Ethics Committee, as well as serving as the Episcopal liaison to Catholic healthcare facilities for the Bishop of Worcester. His duties were expanded to incorporate the role of mission integration, in addition to overseeing pastoral care.