Mark is an ordained priest of The Episcopal Church (TEC), a Certified Educator/National Faculty (CE/NF) with the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE), and an Army Chaplain, currently serving at the rank of Colonel. Most significantly and importantly, he is the spouse of Kyo Young Park and father to Nicole and Jimin.

Currently, he is the Dean of the Graduate School of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps, with over 23 years of military chaplaincy experience (19 years on active duty with two deployments to Iraq). In addition to undergraduate university courses, Mark has taught Combat/Emergency Medical Ministry and Moral Injury for the Army, and has given numerous presentations on Moral Injury, PTSD, and Posttraumatic Growth to churches and other civilian and academic organizations. His combat deployments heavily influence his academic interests.

Mark’s previous assignments include: Director, CPE Program at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX; Chief of Theater Spiritual Resilience at the U.S. Army Europe-Africa Headquarters, Wiesbaden, Germany; Curriculum Developer and Instructor at the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence, San Antonio, TX; Deputy Garrison Chaplain and Resource Manager, USAG-Yongsan, Seoul, Korea; Brigade Chaplain, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at Camp Hovey, Dongducheon, Korea; 98th Medical Detachment (Combat Stress Control), Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA; Operations Chaplain, I Corps, JBLM, WA; Battalion Chaplain, 14th Engineer Battalion, JBLM, WA.

Prior to the Army, Mark served as senior pastor of Community Church of Honolulu and concurrently as a chaplain in the Hawaii Air National Guard. He also taught at universities and colleges as an Adjunct Professor. Prior to ministry and the Army, he worked in banking and finance for over six years in Honolulu and Los Angeles.

Mark’s PhD (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) and Doctor of Ministry (Erskine Theological Seminary) focused on post-combat trauma, the role of faith and the chaplain in promoting healing and growth. He received his Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Southern California.

As a Certified Educator, he leans on Vanier and Tillich (theology of community and becoming fully human), Horney and Rogers (relating with others in conflict and unconditional positive regard), and Jarvis and Yalom (disjuncture and group process in education). He is an academically oriented and emotionally aware person who strives to live well integrated with all aspects of life. He wants to help chaplains grow into the fullness of their being as a chaplain and a person, as created in the imago Dei (according to my theology), which ultimately will aid their spiritual care of others.

Jonathan Fisher is a Certified Educator and National Faculty with the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education and currently serves as the Director of Clinical Pastoral Education at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. 

With over 20 years of professional chaplaincy experience, Jonathan has served in a wide range of operational and training units, including three combat tours. He completed his CPE residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA, and later his CEC fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, where he also served as Director. 

Jonathan knows ACPE Accreditation. He is the ACPE Accreditation Commissioner for all the VA and DoD CPE programs. He has personally set up 3 CPE Programs from the ground up including the US Army Center for Extended CPE with serves as a model of providing CPE through remote learning. 

Beyond his military roles, Jonathan has served as an associate pastor and a high school educator. He is endorsed by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), which formally recognized his ordination in 2010 after a period of deep personal growth, discernment, and spiritual direction. His journey through traumatic experiences in both fundamentalist education and combat has shaped a faith and set of values he now finds most fully expressed within the Disciples tradition.

Jonathan holds a Doctor of Ministry from Erskine Theological Seminary, where his work focused on ministry within a military prison context. While serving as staff chaplain at the Military Correctional Complex in Fort Leavenworth, KS, he co-developed a program that led to a significant reduction in violence and recidivism at the facility, which includes the Joint Regional Correctional Facility and the United States Disciplinary Barracks—the Department of Defense’s only maximum-security prison.

Jonathan is married to Sara, who is also an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Together, they are raising three teenagers and a spirited Schnauzer named Schuyler in Rockville, MD. In his free time, Jonathan enjoys woodworking and spending time on the water.