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Conference on Medicine and Religion

Poster Session

Exploring the Impact of Long Term Doctor-Patient Relationships
Cynthia Avila, BA(s), University of Chicago

A Case Study in Distressing End-of-Life Dreams and Visions
Yael R. Shiner, MD(c), University of Michigan Medical School
Adam Marks, MD, University of Michigan Health System

Approach to Mental Health Concerns in the Nashville Mosques
Bushra Mushtaq-Adam, MD(s), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Parent Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medical Practices and Spirituality and Religion in Pediatric Primary Care
Chad Kritzberger, MD, Mayo Clinic Health System

Spiritual and Physical Holism Within Chinese Understandings of Mental Illness
Charles Liu, PhD(c), University of Massachusetts Boston

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Clergy toward Mental Illness and Care of Individuals with Mental Illness in Rural Tennessee
Linda Cabage, MSN, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Religion and Public Health: Developing and Implementing a Novel Curriculum
Miriam Segura-Harrison, MD(c), Boston University School of Medicine

Prevalence and Types of Miraculous Healings among U.S. Congregations in 2014
Andrew Baccari, BA, Harvard Divinity School
Rebecca Quiñones, MTS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute   

Clergy Members’ Relationship between End of Life Care and Race: Prelinary Findings
Audra Hite, BS, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

More Prayer, Less Hope: Empirical Findings on Borderline Spirituality
David Paine, PhD(c), Boston University

Medical Student and Faculty Reflections on Religion, Spirituality, and the Hidden Curriculum
Ada Amobi, MD-MPH(s), Harvard Medical School

Perceived and actual change in religiousness/spirituality in cancer survivors: Relationships with distress and growth
Kelly Trevino, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College 
Aanand D. Naik, MD, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Jennifer Moye, PhD, VA Boston Healthcare System


Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Orientations and their Relation to Terror Management and General Existential Anxiety

David Cregg, BS, Institute for Spirituality and Health


Ministry of Presence as a Method to Improve Health Outcomes in Street-Based Health Outreach: Evidence from The Night Ministry
Matthew Arck, MA, The Night Ministry

A God-Shaped Hole: CPE for Physicians
Kathleen Rimer, EdD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

The Spiritual Dimension in the Face of EBM: Medical Materialism, Placebo, and the Art of Healing
Heser Oberman, PhD, University of Arizona

Role of Religious Sentiments in Improving Compliance of Water Intake In Patients with Urolithiasis
Liaqat Ali, MBBS, FCPS, Institute of Kidney Diseases Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar
Syed Awlad Hussain, PhD, 
Sarhad Rural Support Programme
Fayyaz Haider MBBS, MS, Quaid e Azam International Hospital, Islamabad
Nasir Orakzai MBBS, FRCS, Institute of Kidney Diseases Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar


Conscience Exemptions, Religious Freedom, and the Affordable Care Act
Aamir Hussain, MD(s), University of Chicago Medicine

The Role of Discarnate Spirits within Spiritual Healing
Martha Meilleur, MDiv, Harvard Divinity School

Examining Attitudes Regarding Religion and Spirituality in Patient Interactions Within the Harris County Medical Society
Lawrence Lin, MD(s), University of Texas Houston Medical School

Religion, Spirituality, and Epilepsy: Past, Present, and Future

Mary Dell, MD, DMin, Ohio State University

Moral Injury, Spiritual Care, and Mental Heatlh: Toward a Model for Partnership
Aaron Klink, MDiv, ThM, Pruitt Hospice

Physicians' Structural Ties: Implications for Clinical Interactions and the Overlooked Patient

Aaron Franzen, PhD, Hope College

Specific Types of Forgiveness and Depression Among Adolescents
Kateryna Kuzubova, Phd(s), University of Toledo

From Saturnine Gout to St. Anthony’s Fire: Medical Terms with Religious Roots
Thomas Heyne, MD, MSt, Massachusetts General Hospital

An Improved Range of Religious-Spiritual Tests Could Help Future Religious Freedom in the USA
Elisabeth McSherry, MD, MPH, VA Medical Center