Anton Boisen, credited with the invention of the hospital chaplain, was himself chaplain at Elgin State Hospital near Chicago in the middle of the 1900s.
Rev. Anton Boisen, a central figure in the development of Clinical Pastoral Education, pioneered the first CPE program at Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts in 1925.
Dr. Richard Cabot was a fundamental figure in the beginnings of the Clinical Pastoral Education movement, along with Rev. Anton Boisen. He felt strongly that students of theology should be required to do clinical work and that this connection between…