The 2012 Inaugural Conference on Medicine & Religion
Responding to the Call of the Sick: Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today
May 23-25, 2012
Westin Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
Westin Hotel, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
The 2012 Conference on Medicine and Religion, sponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, will consider the relation of religion to the practice of medicine, with a focus on clinicians’ responses to the sick and the meaning and spiritual dimensions of the practice of medicine. This inaugural conference is supported by a grant from the Templeton Foundation. Plenary sessions will be organized around the following themes:
Day 1: History of medicine and religion: How did we end up here?
Day 2: Medicine as vocation: In what sense is caring for the sick a spiritual practice?
Day 3: Intrinsically connected? The relationships between religion, ethics, science and the practice of medicine
Lectures and discussions around these themes will be conducted in a spirit that builds bridges between theory and practice, science and theology, the academy and lay communities, the various health professions, and the Abrahamic religious traditions.
Day 1: History of medicine and religion: How did we end up here?
Day 2: Medicine as vocation: In what sense is caring for the sick a spiritual practice?
Day 3: Intrinsically connected? The relationships between religion, ethics, science and the practice of medicine
Lectures and discussions around these themes will be conducted in a spirit that builds bridges between theory and practice, science and theology, the academy and lay communities, the various health professions, and the Abrahamic religious traditions.
Speakers:
Mohammad Y. Alvi, MD, FRCP
Alan Astrow, MD
Osman Bakar, PhD
Farr Curlin, MD
Gary Ferngren, PhD
Azgad Gold, MD
Rev. Daniel Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc
John Hardt, PhD
John Haught, PhD
Jonathan Imber, PhD
Faroque Ahmad Khan, MB, MACP
Shaykh Mohammed Amin Kholwadia
Mary Kraft, MD, MPA
Daniel Kim, MPH, MAR
Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD
Martin Marty, PhD
Shaykh Samir Nass, MD
Aasim Padela, MD, MSc
Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD
Kelly Wolenberg, BA
Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD
Laurie Zoloth, PhD
Mohammad Y. Alvi, MD, FRCP
Alan Astrow, MD
Osman Bakar, PhD
Farr Curlin, MD
Gary Ferngren, PhD
Azgad Gold, MD
Rev. Daniel Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc
John Hardt, PhD
John Haught, PhD
Jonathan Imber, PhD
Faroque Ahmad Khan, MB, MACP
Shaykh Mohammed Amin Kholwadia
Mary Kraft, MD, MPA
Daniel Kim, MPH, MAR
Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD
Martin Marty, PhD
Shaykh Samir Nass, MD
Aasim Padela, MD, MSc
Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD
Kelly Wolenberg, BA
Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD
Laurie Zoloth, PhD
This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Sponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago,
with grant support from the John Templeton Foundation
with grant support from the John Templeton Foundation