Staff/Board
David Fitzgerald - Board Member
David Fitzgerald is a native of Alton, Illinois. He was a high school teacher for 14 years, prior to his current career in hospital chaplaincy. Most of those 14 years were spent as chairman of the religion department at Rosary High School in St. Louis County. During those teaching years, he earned an M.A. in Theology from St. Louis University and moved from teaching to the world of health care ministry in 1981. He has served as the Director of Pastoral Care for SSM St. Joseph Health Center in St. Charles, Missouri and SSM St. Joseph Hospital West in Lake St. Louis, Missouri, since 1988. The Share National Office is on the campus of our Health Center in St. Charles. One of David's responsibilities at St. Joseph is to be the liaison between the hospital and Share.
Marilyn is David's wife of 33 years and is, in his words, "my anchor and best friend who graciously tolerates my eccentricities." They have one son, Brian, who is a CPA and will soon be married.
He has served on the Share board since 1992.
