Conference Schedule (As of February 29, 2016)  

Friday
March 4, 2016

7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.: Registration Open [Second floor near escalators]

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.:  Pre-Conference Activities 

Tours

Tour of Different Hospital Chapels in the Texas Medical Center, led by Wendy Cadge  (Fee) (9:00 a.m. to Noon)

Local Tour of BAPS Srinarayan Mandir (Fee) (9:00 a.m. to Noon)

Workshops

MD Anderson Spiritual and Palliative Care Intensive Workshop (Fee) (9:00 a.m. to Noon) (BEXAR)

The Medical Student and the Chaplain: Journey in the Halls of the Hospital (9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.) (NAVARRO)

Improving Spiritual Competency at the End of Life  (9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.) (HARRIS)

Chaplains on the Medical Team:  Structuring Interprofessional Learning for Medical and Spiritual Care Trainees in Direct Clinical Care (10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) (NAVARRO)

Are Clinical Ethics Religiously and Culturally Competent?  ​(10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) (HARRIS)

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch (on your own)

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Muslim Juma/Friday Prayers 

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: Parallel Sessions

Papers​ 

(1:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.)

"Come On In The Room."  The Coexistence of an American Healthcare System Progression & Black Church Pneumatology that Reclaims Black Bodies in Medicine (TRAVIS)

Bioethics and Theology: A Pastoral Perspective  (BEXAR)

(1:25 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.)

A Comparison of Several Hospice Patients' Engagement in a Facilitated Creative Process with Descriptions of the Art of Dying in Ars Moriendi Texts  (TRAVIS)

Pastoral Views on Faith and Medicine: A Comparative Study (BEXAR)

(1:50 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.)

Eyes that Hear and Hearts that Understand: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Miraculous in Deaf Cultural Theology (TRAVIS)

Panels 

(1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.)

Working Together to Tackle Social Determinants of Health:  Putting the "Soul" of Public Health into Practice (HARRIS)

Exploring "Faithful Presence"' Within Medicine:  Christian Theological Perspectives on James Davison Hunter's Book, "To Change The World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World?"  (SAN JACINTO)

Workshops 

​(1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.)​

Film, Story, and Research:  The Intersection of the arts, science, religion and practice in an interdisciplinary discussion of whole person care.  (HIDALGO)

A Multicultural, Multi-religious View of Forgiveness  (NAVARRO)

2:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Break

2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.: Welcome, Keynote Address -- "Science, Religion and Spirituality in Global Perspective" and Response (SALON BC)

• Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div. -Welcome
• John Graham, M.D., D.Min.
• Elaine Ecklund, Ph.D.  Keynote Address - "Science, Religion and Spirituality in Global Perspective"
• Farr Curlin, M.D. - A Response

3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Break

4:00 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.: Parallel Sessions

Papers

(4:00 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.)

Varieties of Religious Coping: Expanding the Current Models of Depression and Spirituality (NUECES)

The Scientific and the Sacrosanct:  Differentiating Pain and Suffering in Neonates (TRAVIS)

Religious and Spiritual Coping:  Current Research, Future Trends (BEXAR)

Caring for Those Hoping for a Miracle:  A Conceptual Taxonomy (NAVARRO)

The Concept of the "Immortality of the Human Soul" and its Meaning for the Growth of Rational Medicine in Antiquity (HIDALGO)

Risk in Christianity and Personalized Medicine:  Three Frameworks for Understanding Risk in Scripture (HARRIS)

Religiousness and Marginality in Women Globally:  Psychometric Testing of Two Instruments Translated into Five Languages for use in Cardiovascular Recovery​ (SAN JACINTO)

(4:25 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.) 

Spirituality and Practice of Nurse Practitioners (NUECES)

Transgendered Patients and the Catholic Psychiatrist (TRAVIS)

Speaking Truthfully:  A Theological Analysis of Clinical Language and Physician Influence (BEXAR)

Merging Pediatric End-of-Life Care with Religious Directives (NAVARRO)

Patient Centered Care: Making Space for Faith (HIDALGO)

A Review of Muslim Perspectives on Abortion Worldwide and their Implications for American Muslims (HARRIS)

Faith in Crisis: A Qualitative Analysis of Surrogate Decision Makers' Faith Commitments in Withdrawal-of-care Decisions and ICU Provide Responses in Neurocritical Care (SAN JACINTO)

(4:50 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.)

Body Temples and Biobanks  (NUECES)

The Wisdom of the Body: Science, Medicine and Epistemology (TRAVIS)

Acousmatic Voices:  Creativity, Inspiration and Madness (BEXAR)

Integration of Spiritual History in Medical Curriculum of Medical Schools in Pakistan (HIDALGO)

Understanding Muslim Patients:  Cross-Cultural Obstetric and Gynecologic Care (HARRIS)

Seeing Depression Through the Prism of Faith:  Does Religious Affiliation Alter Assessment of Depression and Hopelessness? (SAN JACINTO)

(5:15 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.)

Narrative Structure and Health Indicators: Providing Care Around Story (NUECES)

Sexual Healing:  The Little Pink Pill, Theological Ethics and Participatory Justice (TRAVIS)

Is Self-Determination a Good?  Agency, Virtue and Disability in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (BEXAR)

The Prayer Gauge Debate (NAVARRO)

The Sacred Immortal Soul and Aristotle's Mistakes in Comparative Anatomy (HIDALGO) 

When Brain Death Belies Belief (HARRIS)

Impact of Religious Coping on Pain Processing in Chronic Pain Patients (SAN JACINTO)

6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.:  Dinner Discussions at Area Restaurants (Sign-up at the Registration/Information Table)

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.:  Shabbat Dinner at Hotel (Pre-registration required.)

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Saturday
March 5, 2016

7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.: Catholic Mass & Protestant Worship 

7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.: Continental Breakfast (AUSTIN) ("Meet the Professor"  sign-up at the Registration/Information Table) 

8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Parallel Sessions

Papers

(8:15 a.m. - 8:40 a.m.)

The Teological Suspension of Medicine:  Fundamentally Scientific or Fundamentally Religious?  (NUECES)

God as the Doctor for African Americans Dealing with Diabetes (TRAVIS)

The Virtue of Gratitude in Theological and Psychological Perspective  (BEXAR)

(8:40 a.m. - 9:05 a.m.)

"Know Thyself": The Soul of Anatomical Dissection (NUECES)

Empathy and Care Outcomes of Service Learning in Students: A Mixed Methods Study for Nursing (TRAVIS)

Controlling Creation:  Islam and Medically Aided Conception in Indonesia  (BEXAR)

(9:05 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.)

Janusz Korczak and Maximillian Kolbe: Shared Ethical Legacy of Two Martyrs of the Death Camps of World War II  (NUECES) 

Islamic Law and Islamic Bioethics: Fard Al-Kifayah and The Collective Responsibility to Care for Those Living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya  (TRAVIS)

The Moral Authority of the Standard of Care:  Contrasting Cases from Adult and Pediatric Clinical Ethics  (BEXAR)

Panels

(8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.)

The Sacred Vocation Program: Nurturing the Healers (HARRIS)

Speaking of Death: Can Religion Find Its Voice at a Secular Deathbed? (SAN JACINTO)

Workshops 

​(8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.) 

Medicine, Bias and Religion  (HIDALGO)
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The Use of Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for Psychiatric Illness in Children and Adolescents (NAVARRO)

9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.: Break

9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Plenary One "Interreligious Panel on Medicine and Religion"[Ballroom BC]

• Rabbi Samuel E. Karff, Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Beth Israel
• Uma Mysorekar, M.D., The Hindu Temple Society of North America
• Aasim Padela, M.D. M.Sc., University of Chicago
• Morgan J. Wills, M.D., M.A., F.A.C.P., Siloam Family Health Center​

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.: Break

​11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Parallel Sessions

 Papers

(11:15 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.)

The Role of Congregations in Community Mental Health Care  (NUECES)

Neural Correlates of the Effect of Prayer Therapy on Depression in Adults with Childhood Adversity (TRAVIS)

Medical (Ersatz) Liturgies of Death:  Anatomical Dissection and Organ Donation as Biopolitical Practices (BEXAR)

(11:40 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.)

Christian Witness in Health Care (NUECES)

The Intersection of Latin@ Spirituality, Religiosity, Cultural Values and Health (TRAVIS)

The Value of Circus Clowns:  What Clinical Ethicists can Learn from Chaplains about Credentialing, Standardization, and Professionalization (BEXAR)

(12:05 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.)

Reclaiming Tradition:  A Proposal for Theological Training in Medical Education (NUECES)

Needing a New Ethics: Religious Resources for the Shift from Clinical Care to Population Health (TRAVIS)

To Save or Let Die: Tragedy and Parental Decision Making for Critically Ill Neonates (BEXAR)

Panels

(11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)

The Intersections of Ethical, Religious and Spiritual Issues in Mental Health (HARRIS)

The Religion and Medicine of the Future:  An Orthodox Critique of Scientific Theology and Ecumenism (SAN JACINTO)

Workshops 

​(11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)

Bi-directional Impact of Trauma on Religion and Spirituality and a New Intervention for PTSD (HIDALGO)

Defining the Self: Where do the Fields of Psychology and Religion Intersect? (NAVARRO)

​12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Lunch (LAMAR) & ​Poster Session (BALLROOM A)

​2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.: Parallel Sessions

Papers
(2:00 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.)
​​​The Necessity of Science and Empathy; For the Sake of Empathy in Clinical Care (NUECES)
Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics and Human Enhancement  (TRAVIS)
Jewish Perspectives on the Sacred in the Physician-Patient Encounter (BEXAR)
Technical Difficulties: How Technology Hinders Virtuous Medicine and Insights from Catholic Social Teaching (NAVARRO)
Immunizations, New Born Screening, and Religious Exemptions: Where Lies the Justificatory Burden? (HIDALGO)

(2:25 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.)
​Reverence, Responsibility and the Meaning of Health (NUECES)
Bringing Forth New Life: The Sacred as Bridging Narrative in Childbirth (BEXAR)
Clergy Religious Beliefs and ICU Utilization at the End of Life (NAVARRO)
Soranus of Ephesus: His Legacy in Neonatology and in Christian Writing (HIDALGO)

(2:50 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.)
Spiritual Dimensions of the Human Genome Project (NUECES)
Healthy and Normal: Contrasting Metaphysics of Contemporary Genomic Medicine and Islamic Tradition  (TRAVIS)
Participant Religiosity in a Novel Diabetes Prevention Program: Preliminary Findings (BEXAR)
Bringing St. Augustine to Secular Conceptions of Personhood: On Three Stages of Fetal Development (NAVARRO)
Demoralization and Loss of Transcendence: What is the Clinician's Role? (HIDALGO)

Panel
(2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.)
Doctors' Beliefs and Medical Practices: Transatlantic Comparisons (SAN JACINTO)

Workshop 
​(2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.)
Addressing the Sacred in Mental Health Setting (HARRIS)

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.: Break

3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Parallel Sessions

Papers

(3:45 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.)

Levinas' "Glory" and the Clinical Encounter (NUECES)

Patanjali Meditation for Holistic Stress-Free Living (TRAVIS)

Seeking the Sacred as an Act of Idolatry:  Emmanuel Levinas, Transcendence and an Argument for the Desacralization of Medicine (BEXAR)

A Look Into Spiritual Pain Management, a Narrative Medicine Paper Presentation (NAVARRO)

Precision Medicine, Genome Myths and the Imago Dei (HIDALGO)

(4:10 p.m. - 4:35 p.m.)

​Outcome Based Medical Ethics Education in a Catholic Higher Educational Institution in the Philippines:  Sharing the San Beda College of Medicine Experience (NUECES)

Surgery and Uncertainty: Elaborating Surgical Ethics in the Tests of Abraham (TRAVIS)

Commodifying Caritas:  Pink Ribbons are not Care for the Sick (BEXAR)

Death Bedside Discussions: Divine or Delusional?  (NAVARRO)

Narratives of Care in the Middle Ages: Sacred and Secular Medicine in Medieval Exempla (HIDALGO)

(4:35 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)

A Paradigm Shift for the Integration of Spirituality and Medicine (2016 Student Essay Award Winner) (NUECES)

The Physician Soul: Burnout, Secondary Stress and Compassion Among Physicians (TRAVIS)

"And then at the End, You Throw a Bedpan": Personal and Theological Reflections on End-of-Life Care, Ars Moriendi and the Wildness of Death (BEXAR)

Medicine and Judaism: Physical and Psychological  Concepts  (NAVARRO)

The Danger of the Cure:  The Role of the "Three-Parent Baby" Model in Catholic Tradition's Understanding of the Common Good (HIDALGO)

Workshop

(3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)

Chinese Medicine, Philosophy and Religion (HARRIS)

6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.: Dinner Discussions at Area Restaurants

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Sunday
March 6, 2016

7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m.: Catholic Mass & Protestant Worship

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.: Continental Breakfast (AUSTIN)

8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Parallel Sessions

Papers

(8:00 a.m. - 8:25 a.m.)

Approaches to Embryo Adoption: Medical, Ethical, Pastoral and Life Together (NUECES)

(8:25 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.)

Certainty of Cure as a Criterion for the Medical Use of Prohibited Substances in Islamic Law (NUECES)

(8:50 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.)
​
Identification and Interment of Ashes from the Dachau Concentration Camp Sixty-Nine Years After Its Liberation (NUECES)

Panels

(8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.)

​Models for Cooperation at the Mental Health and Faith Interface (NAVARRO)

​Historic Cuba Medicine and Religion Dialogue (HIDALGO)

Workshops

(8:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.)

​Mindfulness and Meditation in Western Religions  (TRAVIS)

A Can of Worms:  Respecting Process while Conveying Content in Teaching Medical Trainees about Culture and Religion (BEXAR)

9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Break

9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.​: Parallel Sessions

Papers

(9:30 a.m. - 9:55 a.m.)

"Be Fruitful and Multiply": A Comparative Analysis of Assisted Reproduction Technologies (NUECES)
Immune Modulation in Uro-Cancer:  Bridging the Gap between Miracle Healing and Evidence Based Medicine (TRAVIS)
Musings into Health, Healing, Home and Heroic Journeys (BEXAR)
Normative Triage:  On the Dialectics of Philosophical Generality and Medical Ontology (NAVARRO)
Medicine and Religion Together Can Improve Geriatric Care (HIDALGO)

(9:55 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.)

Jewish, Hippocratic, Nazi and Contemporary Secular Bioethics Principles (NUECES)
Viriditas:  Hildegard of Bingen's Integral Approach to Medicine and Patient Care (TRAVIS)
Faith Healing or Scientific Medicine?  How Homeopathy Bridges the Secular/Sacred Divide (NAVARRO)
Five Prayers:  A Testimonial on Faith and Science (HIDALGO)

(10:20 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.)

Minimally Conscious versus Comatose States:  Clinical Complexities and Halachic Bioethical Implications (NUECES)
​Obessional Disorders in al_Balkhi's 9th Century Treatise:  Sustenance of the Body and Soul (TRAVIS)
Compassion as a Compass for Medicine:  The Role of Religious Understanding of Human Mortality (BEXAR)
Structure and Direction:  Framing Worldviews for Health as Integrally Biblical rather than Sacred versus Secular (NAVARRO)
How Augustian Universalism Limits Medicine (HIDALGO)

Panel
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(9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.)

​Hope in the Time of Medicalized Death (HARRIS)
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​10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Break

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Plenary Two "Interreligious Panel on Medicine and Religion"(Ballroom BC)

*    Rabbi Samuel E. Karff, Rabbi Emeritus, Congregation Beth Israel
*     Aasim Padela, M.D. M.Sc., University of Chicago
*     Morgan J. Wills, M.D., M.A., F.A.C.P., Siloam Family Health Center​

*Jewish and Muslim prayer rooms will be available for use throughout the conference. 

**Schedule is subject to change