Conference Schedule (As of March 24, 2017)  

Friday
March 24, 2017

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

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.:  Pre-Conference Activities 

Tours -- 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(Note:  All tours will meet in the hotel lobby.  Lunch is included with each tour.)

"Medical Ethics and the Holocaust:  How Healing Becomes Killing - Eugenics, Euthanasia and Extremism" at Holocaust Museum Houston.  Led by Darlene "Cheyenne" Martin, PhD., RN (Fee)

"Sacred Sites Tour" (Fee) 

Workshop -- 9:00 a.m. - Noon (HIDALGO)
(Note:  Lunch on own.)

"Research Methods on Religion, Spirituality and Health". Led by Harold Koenig, M.D., Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University. (Fee) 

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

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 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.)

Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Version of the Belief into Action Scale (TRAVIS)

Opening the Empirical Frame: Enchanting Medicine in A Secular Age  (BEXAR)

Re-enchanting the Body: Overcoming the Melancholy of Anatomy  (SAN JACINTO)


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

Nemesius of Emesa: Fourth-Century Christian Anthropologist and Physiologist (TRAVIS)

Putting on Incorruption and Becoming a Potential Relic: An Orthodox Christian Consideration of the Reality of Deification in a World of Disenchantment and Body Donation (BEXAR)

Healing as a work of God: A Theo-Ethical Analysis  (SAN JACINTO)


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

Sacred Spaces: Experiential Learning in Medical Education (TRAVIS)

Investigations into Local Spiritual and Medicinal Health Practices under Imperial Japanese Rule (BEXAR)

Panels 

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

Re-enchanting Medicine through Re-imagined Monastic Living in a Contemporary Biomedical Academic Setting (NAVARRO)

Reflections on Abraham M. Nussbaum, M.D.'s "The Finest Traditions of My Calling": The Re-Enchantment and Renewal of Medicine  (HARRIS)

Workshops 

​(1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.)​

Medical Futility in End of Life Care: Exploring Ethical, Clinical, and Spiritual Dilemmas  (NUECES)

What I Want My Nurse to Know -- RNs Learning from Chaplains (HIDALGO)

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

2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.: Welcome, Keynote Address (SALON BC)

Welcome --

Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div., Dana Farber Cancer Institute, CMR Conference Chair
Farr Curlin, M.D., Duke University, Conference Co-Chair
John Graham, M.D., D.Min. President and CEO, Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center              ​
"Idolatry and Enchantment"
Keynote Address by Jeffrey P. Bishop, M.D., Ph.D., Director Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University

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.)

Using Psychiatric Medications Wisely: How Christian Theology Can Help  (NUECES)

Islamic Legal Ethics of Life-Sustaining Measures in End-of-Life Care and Terminal Illness (TRAVIS)

Science vs. Vocation: Problems of Modern High Education and Clinical Practice in Russia (BEXAR)

Religious, Legal and Social Implications of the Use of Reproductive Material of the Dead: A Case Study (NAVARRO)

Religion, Spirituality, and HIV Clinical Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Literature (HIDALGO)

Enchantment of Perception in Conformity with Aristotle (HARRIS)

Seeing the Body: Noesis and Modern Medicine​ (SAN JACINTO)

(4:25 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.) 

The “Good” Physician: Role Perceptions, Belies, and Patient Interactions (NUECES)

Vocation and Reproductive Technology: What about the Three-Parent Embryo? (TRAVIS)

Using Community Bioethics Dialogues as a Platform for Re-enchanting Community Members Regarding Health Care Issues (BEXAR)

Cognitive Dualism in End-of-Life Decision-Making (NAVARRO)

Strategies of Enchantment: Three M.D.s Build Frameworks for Spirituality (HIDALGO)

Is the World Disenchanted if Everything is Just Matter in Motion?  (HARRIS)

Proselytizing a Disenchanted Religion to Medical Students: On Why Secularized Yoga and Mindfulness Should Not be Required in Medical Education (SAN JACINTO)

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

The Body as Symbol: From Enhancement to Enchantment (NUECES)

Re-enchanting Birth: The Need for Spiritual Care in Childbirth (TRAVIS)

Spiritual Support Kits in the Hospital Attached Med-Inn: Survey Results from an University of Michigan Pilot Project (BEXAR)

Nurturing the Spirit: The Need for Virtuous Spiritual Care (NAVARRO)

Diversity Dialogues: A Model to Increase Comfort with Discussion of Religious Cultural Differences in Healthcare Settings (HIDALGO)

Reconsidering Weberian Secularization: Seeing the Sacred in Medicine, Again (HARRIS)

We Already Tried & Failed: Lessons from the Disenchantment of the Re-Enchantment  (SAN JACINTO)

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

Medicine as Healing Vocation: Disenchantment and the Moral Power of Narrative (NUECES)

Religion and Spirituality in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care: Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists' Experiences of Call and Vocation (TRAVIS)

Touching the Spirit: Re-enchanting the Person in the Body (BEXAR)

Phenomenology and Eastern Christian Patristic Practices: A dialogue on Empathy and the Re-enchantment of Clinical Care in the 21st Century  (NAVARRO)

Controlling Nature: The Enlightenment, Newton, and the End-of-Life (HIDALGO) 

Re-enchanting Pathos (HARRIS)

The Spirit, Giver of Life: Pneumatology and the Re-enchantment of Medicine (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.)
Saturday
March 25, 2017

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.)

Religion, spirituality, and the clinical introduction of new prenatal genetic technologies: Walking the line between patient-centered care and controversy.  (NUECES)

Oriented x2: Rediscovering the meaning of place in the physician-patient relationship and use of technology  (BEXAR)

The Vocation of Healing: Attending Bodies and Souls (HARRIS)

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

Integrating Soul Knowledge (NUECES)

Medical Ethics in Sun Simiao’s Recipes Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold  (BEXAR)

Derrida & the Industrialization of Psychology (HARRIS)

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

Burnout among resident physicians - the impact of workplace culture (BEXAR)

Karl Rahner: The Role of Everyday Mysticism, Ignatian Discernment, and Retreat Experiences in Medical Decision-Making  (HARRIS)

Panels

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

Building Capacity to Adequately Measure the Influence of Religion and Spirituality on Health in the U.S.: Build it and They Will Come? (TRAVIS)

Treatments for Moral Injury in Veterans with PTSDS (NAVARRO)

Workshops 

​(8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.) 

Ignatian Spirituality and Re-Enchanting Medicine  (HIDALGO)

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]

  • Abraham Nussbaum, M.D., CEdO, Denver Health (Christianity)
  • Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies, George Mason University (Islam)
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.)

Re-Enchanting A Physician’s Practice: Fish bones, Medical Records and More  (NUECES)

A Different Question:  Humanity, Divinity and  the Gift of Ambivalence (TRAVIS)

Redefining Madness: No Such Thing as Mental Illness and Disorders (BEXAR)

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

When the Universal is Particular: A Re-examination of the Common Morality Using the Work of Charles Taylor (NUECES)

Black Church Health Advocacy: Tradition & Inspiration for Re-Enchantment (TRAVIS)

Reminders of the Sacred: The Anointing of the Sick and Modern Medicine (BEXAR)

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

Human Soul and the Philosophy of Transubstantial Motion (NUECES)

Eschatological Embodiment: How End Times Shape Ideal Bodies (TRAVIS)

Re-enchanting Birth: A Sacramental Imagination of Childbirth (BEXAR)

Panels

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

Reimagining Medicine: Theological Formation for Those with Vocations to Health Care (NAVARRO)

Enchantment vs. Disenchantment in Medical Progress: Four Perspectives (HIDALGO)

Workshops 

​(11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)

Openings, Offerings, and the Happening of Truth: Medical Education and the Call to Holiness (HARRIS)

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

Box Lunch and
"Associations Between Religious Service Attendance and Mortality, Depression and Suicide:  Is it Casual?  What are the Mechanisms?" 
Presentation by Tyler VanderWeele, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health and
Harold Koenig, MD, MHSc, Director, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University and
Poster Presentation Session
​2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Parallel Sessions

Papers
(2:15 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.)
​​​Re-enchanting Medical Ethics (NUECES)

Ethics Case Study in Spirituality in Pediatric Oncology: Physician Prayer  (TRAVIS)
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Chaplain Religious/ Spiritual (R/S) Assessment for Depth of Religious Resource or Maturity in U.S. Patients: A work in progress. Could Spiritual Maturity be associated with Possible Divine Enchantment? (BEXAR)

Follow me: what can Luke’s theology of discipleship teach us about death and dying?  (HIDALGO) 
​
Finding Joy in Medicine--The Antidote to Disenchantment (HARRIS)

(2:40 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.)
​Empathy and Care in Student Outcomes of Service Learning for Nursing Education: Findings and Implications (NUECES)
​
Postemotional Medicine  (TRAVIS)

Spirituality in Psychiatry Residency Training at a Religiously-Affiliated Hospital: Unique Opportunities and Challenges (BEXAR)

A Model for Collaborative Spiritual and Psychiatric Care of Oncology Patients (HIDALGO)

Converting the Disenchanted: Postsecular Possibilities in Modern Healthcare (HARRIS)

(3:05 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
Theology, Medicine, and Ethics Intersecting in the Case of Brain Dead Pregnancy? (NUECES)

GodandProstate.Net: Illness, Mortality, Faith, Evangelism and the Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Digital Age  (TRAVIS)

Beauty and the Re-Enchantment of Medicine (BEXAR)

Intellectual Virtues and the Medical Professionals’ Acceptance of Brain Death as Death (HIDALGO)

Love's Proper Place in the Medical Encounter (HARRIS)

Panel
(2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
When the Physician Says I Have Nothing More To Offer (NAVARRO)

3:30 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.)

Making Room for the Mythic: Creating Space for Personal Becoming Through Expanded Illness and Disability Narrative Frameworks (NUECES)

Meeting the Terminally Ill Patient with the Jesus of Holy Saturday (TRAVIS)

Conscious Material: Exploring and Integrating Beliefs About the Physical World and the World Within (BEXAR)

A Re-Enchanted Response to a Communal Call: Toward a Christian Understanding of Medicine as Vocation  (2017 Student Essay Award Co-Winner) (NAVARRO)

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

​​Jesus Man Knocking at the Bathroom Door: Christian Hospitality for the Mentally Ill (NUECES)

A Fourth Wave of Psychotherapies: Moving from Recovery Toward Well Being (TRAVIS)

Against Evidence Based Medicine: Leaving Room for Mystery, Wonder, and Faith in Medicine (BEXAR)

The Object of Our Disenchantment   (2017 Student Essay Award Co-Winner) (NAVARRO)

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

The Religious/Spiritually-Integrated Practice Assessment Scale: An Interdisciplinary Tool to Evaluate Practice (NUECES)

Disasters, Religion and Medical Ethics: The Role of Faith and Culture in Disasters (TRAVIS)

Reconciling the Hand of Benediction Controversy (BEXAR)

Reenchanting By Reframing: Empirical Evidence as Wisdom (NAVARRO)

Panel

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

Technology in Medicine: Disenchanting or Re-enchanting? (HIDALGO)

The Art of Pastoral Counseling: Re-finding Enchantment at the Intersection of Science and Spirit Across Faith Traditions (HARRIS)

Dinner on own at area restaurants
                                                             7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.  (BALLROOM BC)

                                            "Your Health: A Sacred Matter"  Premiere Screening and Panel                                   Discussion (with Gerald and Adam Krell, filmmakers, Farr Curlin, M.D., Gary Ferngren, Ph.D.,  Marilyn                                                                                       Martone, Ph.D.,  and Daniel Sulmasy, M.D.  Moderator:  The Reverend Daniel E. Hall, M.D. MDiv.) 
Sunday
March 26, 2017

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.)

Religion/Spirituality and the Breast Cancer Genes (BRCA) (NUECES)

The Virtue of Charity and the Art of Medicine (HARRIS)

​(8:25 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.)

Connectedness Evaluation: Developing a Spiritual Health Tool for Treating Depression (NUECES)

Medical Anarchy: Jacques Ellul, Technique, and Modern Western Medicine (HARRIS)

(8:50 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.)

Radical Friendship:  How the Church Can Participate in Palliative Care (NUECES)
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Calling, Virtue, and the Practice of Medicine (HARRIS) 

Panels

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

​Will This Be on the Boards?: Reflections on Teaching Religion to Future Doctors (TRAVIS)

​Workshops

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

​Increasing Physician Self- Awareness: A Transdisciplinary Approach in a Chronic Pain Practice  (BEXAR)

Resilience, Compassion, Joy - Fostering a Meaningful Life in the Practice of Medicine (NAVARRO)

The use of Yoga as an Adjunctive Treatment for Psychiatric Illness in Children and Adolescents (HIDALGO)

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.)

Revisiting the Meaning Systems Interview:  Progress and Potential for Medical Staff (NUECES)
Errors, Guilt and Shame in Medicine - Dealing with Enchantment and Fright (TRAVIS)
​McLean Hospital Spirituality and Mental Health Consultation Service: A Novel Approach to Integrated Treatment (NAVARRO)
A. J. Heschel's Vision for the Re-enchantment of Medicine: Possibilities and Limitations (HARRIS)

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

Reviving Death (NUECES)
The Virtue of Christian Compassion and its Ability to Foster a Communal Health Care Experience (TRAVIS)
Reconciling Medicine and Religion in Support of Children with Gender Dysphoria (NAVARRO)
Imagining Contexts In the Consulting Room: Faith, Psychotherapy & Rhizomes (HARRIS)

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

Halachic Aspects of Brain Computer Interface Therapeutic Advances (NUECES)
​The Defensive Function of Medical Language for Parents of Children with Mental Disabilities (TRAVIS)
Is Suffering Good: When Families and Patients View Suffering as Redemptive and Spiritually Formative (NAVARRO)
Death and Dying in Rural Western Kenya: Christian Rituals for American Medicine (HARRIS)
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Panel
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(9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.)

​Remembering our Hope for Medicine: Moral Formation and Pre-Medical Education (HIDALGO)

Workshop

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

Bringing Wonder into Medicine: A Film-based Curriculum (BEXAR)​

​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)

*     ​Anne C. Klein/Rigzin Drolma, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, Rice University (Buddhism) 
*     Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D. Professor of Religious Studies, Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Northwestern University          (Judaism)
                                                              12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.  Concluding Comments

                                                              Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div., Dana Farber Cancer Institute, CMR Conference Chair
                                                              Farr Curlin, M.D., Duke University, Conference Co-Chair
                                                              John Graham, M.D., D.Min. President and CEO, Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center  

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

**Schedule is subject to change