Conference Schedule
Friday
March 6, 2015 |
8am-1pm: Registration Open [Lobby]9am-12pm: Pre-conference Activities12pm-1:00pm: Break for Lunch1pm-1:10pm: Welcome [Ballroom CD]
1:10pm-2:45pm: An Interdisciplinary Case Discussion on "I was Bleeding for My Sins" [Ballroom CD]
2:45pm-3:00pm: Break3:00pm-4:15pm: Parallel Sessions
Paper Session: Religion, Spirituality, and Depression [Pitcher]
Paper Session: Dilemmas of Difference [Saloman]
Religious Resources for Healing [Aquarium]
Panel Session: Perspectives on Religion and its Engagement of Medical Systems: Synthesis, Tensions, Trajectories [Attucks] Panel Session: Efficacy and Evidence: Questioning Paradigms Across Religious Healing Traditions [Dawes] Panel Session: Can the Spiritual Speak? Towards a Reconfigured Relationship between Spirituality and Medicine [Paine] Panel Session: Spiritually Integrated Mental Health Treatment: What Does Experience Teach Us? [Revere A] Workshop Session: Waiting for a Miracle? [Revere BC] 4:15pm-4:30pm: Break4:30pm-5:45pm: Parallel SessionsPaper Session: Modes of Faith in Medicine [Revere A]
Paper Session: Perspectives on Dying Well [Revere BC]
Panel Session: Ethics and Emergence: The Facts of the Case [Attucks] Panel Session: A Theoretically and Clinically Grounded Model for Spiritual Healing in a Palliative Care Context: Clinical, Ethical, and Theological Perspectives on Harvey Chochinov’s Dignity Therapy [Dawes] Panel Session: Brain, Mind and Soul: Advances in Clinical and Scientific Approaches to Brain-Mind Health and Spirituality [Paine] Workshop Session: Healing Through and Through: Integrating Spiritual Care into the Treatment Plan for Sustainable Outcomes [Saloman] Workshop Session: Development of a Physician Driven Department of Healthcare and Spirituality: At a Large Hospital System [Pitcher] 5:45pm-8:00pm: Shuttles to Restaurants6:30pm-8:30pm: Shabbat Dinner [Empress]8:30pm: A Discussion on Funding the Field of Religion, Spirituality, and Health - Opportunities and Tensions [Empress]
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Saturday
March 7, 2015 |
7:00am-7:45am: Catholic Mass [Paine] & Protestant Worship* [Attucks]7am-8am: Registration [Lobby] and Continental Breakfast [Empress]8:00am-10:15am: Parallel SessionsPaper Session: Expanding Paradigms of Persons and Healing [Attucks]
Paper Session: Virtues, Vices, and the Soul [Dawes]
Paper Session: Historical Perspectives [Pitcher]
Paper Session: Technology, Decisions, and Care [Paine]
Paper Session: Theology and Belief at the End of Life [Saloman]
Paper Session: The Good Physician [Revere A]
Panel Session: Christian Theology and the Nature of Attachment: A Panel on Gregory Fricchione's Compassion and Healing in Medicine and Society: On the Nature and Use of Attachment Solutions to Separation Challenges [Revere BC] 10:15-11:15am: Break & Poster Session [Ballroom AB]11:15am-12:45pm: Plenary One- In what sense is illness a spiritual and/or religious experience? [Ballroom CD]
12:45pm-2:15pm: Lunch [Lobby]2:15pm-3:45pm: Plenary Two- How should particular spiritual and religious needs of patients be addressed and by whom? [Ballroom CD]
3:45pm-4:00pm: Break4:00pm-5:15pm: Parallel SessionsPaper Session: Religious Coping [Attucks]
Paper Session: Documenting and Measuring Spiritual Care [Aquarium]
Panel Session: Recovering Transcendence in Medicine: Do We Need Mindfulness, Spirituality or Religion? [Dawes] Panel Session: Spiritual Death According to Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism: What Can Modern Medicine and Western Culture Learn? [Pitcher] Panel Session: Health Risk Assessment: Examining the Similarities between the Reasoning Exercises of Medical Experts and Islamic Legists [Paine] Panel Session: Healing Health Care: Moving the Sacramental Tradition from the Edges to the Center of Catholic Health Care [Saloman] Panel Session: In Memory of Grace: The Spiritual & Religious Tale of a Patient, Her Sister, a Mentor and Her Student [Revere A] Workshop Session: Spiritual Resistance and Medical Care During the Holocaust: The Role of Rabbinic Responsa [Revere BC] 5:15pm-6:15pm: Break6:15pm-8:45pm: Dinner and Keynote Lecture- Cares, Taking Care and Caregiving: The Vital Nexus between Religion and Medicine [Ballroom CD]
Arthur Kleinman, MD, MA
8:45pm: City-View Discussion [Empress]
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Sunday
March 8, 2015 |
7:00am-7:45am: Catholic Mass [Paine] & Protestant Worship* [Attucks]7am-8am: Continental Breakfast8am-9:40am: Parallel SessionsPaper Session: Soul and Self [Dawes]
Paper Session: Prayer and Healing [Pitcher]
Paper Session: Health Care in Religious Contexts [Saloman]
Paper Session: Visions of Human Health [Revere A]
Paper Session: Models of Caregiving [Aquarium]
Paper Session: Spirituality and the Doctor-Patient Relationship [Revere BC]
9:40am-9:55am: Break9:55am-10:15am: Student Essay Award and Presentation [Ballroom CD]10:15am-11:45am: Plenary Three: What is at stake and what is experienced, spiritually, among those who care for patients? [Ballroom CD]
11:45am-12pm: Closing Remarks [Ballroom CD] |
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*Muslim prayer room will be available for use all day [Garrison], Jewish Prayer room will be available for use all day [Sumner]
**Schedule is subject to change