Dr. Teague is a seasoned CPE Educator with over 35 years of experience in Clinical Pastoral Education supervision and spiritual care leadership. In 2024, ACPE granted her CPE Educator Emeritus - a distinguished practitioner award.

Her pronouns are she/her.

Paula is well known in ACPE for her work in trauma informed spiritual care. She developed a CPE program for the Baltimore City Police Department’s volunteer chaplains.

Paula received a grant to develop education for spiritual care givers to the transgender community,

Paula is the author of several articles including work with women in CPE, measuring the efficacy of chaplains on the healthcare team, use of system’s theory in education and group work, and educational collaboration with the health care team.

Paula is a Society of Friends (Quaker) minister. She has a bachelor’s degree from Guilford College in North Carolina, a master’s degree from the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Columbia Seminary in Atlanta. Paula also has an MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University.

Paula worked as a certified educator for the Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama; Catholic Health Initiatives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and as the Senior Director for Spiritual Care at Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore, Maryland.

Paula left Johns Hopkins in 2023 to retire. Now she says she is “re-wired” not retired. Being at Anne Arundel Medical Center allows Paula to do the work she loves; teaching, mentoring, seeing people grow in the ways that make them more effective spiritual care providers. The student provides spiritual care to a person using a new learning or understanding of themselves and that person is positively impacted. And then that person can in turn effect their relationships and encounters, and on and on. It is this ripple effect into the world, of a greater connection to meaning and life giving forces, that motivates Paula to keep on re-wiring. It is a joy.

Paula was certified as an ACPE Supervisor/Educator in 1988 and was a board certified chaplain with the Association for Professional Chaplains from 1989-2023. Currently, she is a credentialed Associate Coach with the International Coaching Federation and a certified Positive Psychology Coach.

Paula is married to Rev. Dr. Stephen Dutton. They are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary in 2025. They have three children; Elaine, Jason and Zachary and two grandchildren; Asa and Blaze.