2020 Conference Schedule  (As of March 9, 2020)  

Sunday
March 22, 2020

Noon - 6:00 p.m. - Registration/Information  (Ballroom Foyer)

Pre-Conference Activities 

2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 
Bus Tour (Pre-registration required.) (Meet at Registration Table.)

Join us as we explore Columbus’ majestic and beautiful houses of worship. Witness the stunning mosaics and pristine marble of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, built in the traditional Byzantine style of architecture. Experience the serene prayer halls and geometric motifs decorating the Noor Islamic Cultural Center, one of central Ohio’s largest mosques. Appreciate the intricate stained glass, intimate chapel, and majestic main sanctuary of the Jewish Conservative movement’s Congregation Tifereth Israel, one of Columbus’ oldest synagogues. In addition, visit the Buddhist shrine and Meditation Hall of Columbus Karma Thegsum Chöling, the Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center temporarily being housed in this synagogue. We will learn about how the unique sanctuaries and prayer spaces in these beautiful houses of worship facilitate devotion, prayer, and support concepts of healing within the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. A religious studies professor will accompany the group and offer his insights during the visits.  
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 
Workshops and Panel

2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Workshop 1 --  The Innate Healing Power of the Body: the Premodern Medicine of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)  (Room 140)​
Led by Margaret Peterson, PhD, Fellow in Families, Illness and Collaborative Healthcare, Chicago Center for Family Health
For 2,400 years, from the time of Hippocrates through the Enlightenment, the medicine practiced in the West was that of the premodern, humoral system. This medicine, sometimes called the “System of the Fours,” understood both the cosmos as a whole and the human body in particular as composed in various proportions of four abstract elements (earth, air, water, and fire), four qualities (hot, cold, wet, and dry), and four humors (blood, bile, phlegm, and melancholia). The medical texts of the Middle Ages, whatever the identity of the author (Jewish doctor, Christian monk, university-educated physician, herbalist) and whatever that person’s training (apprenticeship, university education, connections with family or friends), all reflect this Hippocratic model. The twelfth-century German Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen authored one such medical text. For many years this work, Causae et Curae, was untranslated from its original Latin and virtually completely neglected by medical historians. In the 1970s and 1980s the American physician Victoria Sweet, began to read and study Hildegard’s medical writings. In the process she discovered that Hildegard’s Causae et Curae, far from being a collection of prayers for the sick, was in many respects a typical medieval medical treatise.  Dr. Sweet reflected upon and put into practice elements of Hildegard’s own medical practice in the course of the twenty years she spent as a physician at San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital.
This workshop will include discussion of Hildegard’s particular take on premodern medicine, and implications of these for medical practice more generally, as well as for health care policy and bioethics.  The format will be conversational, with lots of time and space allotted for questions and discussion.
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Workshop 2 -- Spiritual Care with Non-Communicative Patients  (Room 202) ​

Led by Linda Golding, MA, BCC, Staff Chaplain, Coordinator, Pastoral Services for Milstein Hospital, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Chaplains cross the thresholds of dozens of rooms each day, meeting patients and families, coming face to face with different systems and concerns, coming heart to heart with stories of spiritual uplift and spiritual distress. Words, body language, and trust are key currencies. What happens when the patient is non-communicative, and the family is absent? The room is still there, the door is still open, the threshold still must be crossed. Professionals and trainees alike struggle with how to employ tools of listening and presence with non-communicative patients, with what kind of pastoral care can be offered to this patient, how do we model respect and engagement for the family, how is the work of chaplain demonstrated and valued in this situation, how is trust developed, what replaces (or does not replace) words and body language? These questions are central to providing spiritual care to the patient who is unable to engage in a pastoral intervention. While much has been written in academic and general literature about pastoral care during illness and the end of life, there is very little about pastoral care with non-communicative patients and their families. As medical technology continues to develop more patients and families will experience being non-communicative. And chaplains will need to be prepared to walk this different journey. Based on the newly released book of the same title (by the same author!!), the workshop for SPIRITUAL CARE FOR NON-COMMUNICATIVE PATIENTS will guide chaplains, clinicians and caregivers through a series of exercises designed to develop the skills and confidence to offer spiritual care to non-communicative patients and their families. It is important to note that this workshop will be from the point of view of the human interaction rather than from a specific religious point of view, it will remind the participants of the spiritual dignity of the human body.
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Workshop 3 -- Mortality, Health, and Substance Abuse by Religious Attendance Among HIV Infected Patients  (Room 240)

Led by Benjamin Doolittle, MD, MDiv, Associate Professor, Yale Medical School
​Religion and spirituality have been associated with higher individual survival and improved biological markers among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH).
Prior results have largely been among small cohort studies. We examined the association using a larger sample and longitudinal data.
METHODS: Data were a sample of PLWH from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) years 2002 – 2012 (n=3,685). We used survival analysis to examine the risk of death by at least monthly compared to less than monthly religious service attendance.
INTERPRETATION: Attending religious services at least monthly was associated with lower mortality risk among PLWH, which may be partially attributed to lower prevalence of substance use and depression compared to those attending less than monthly.
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. -- BREAK
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Workshop 4 --  Harmonizing the Secular and the Spiritual in Clinical Contexts — a Narrative Medicine Workshop (Room 140)​

Led by Elizabeth J. Berger, M.S., APBCC, Guest Faculty, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell 
​Literary theorist Rita Felski observes, “The desire to purge aesthetic experience of its enigmatic and irrational qualities merely has the effect of driving them underground.” This is especially prevalent in the evidence-bound realm of Western medical culture, often with a stifling effect on the narratives of patients and providers alike. Positivism, the primacy of technology and Cartesian dualism’s legacy of aligning man with mind and woman with body have rendered modern medicine—with its high rates of professional burnout and medical error—a kind of living paradigm of the Kabbalistic notion of the Shekhinah (the Divine Feminine of many names across many traditions) in exile. The silencing of certain kinds of stories, particularly those related to mythic thinking or spiritual belief, is a barrier to communication, shared decision-making and effective self-care.
Narrative medicine is a set of practices that uses literature and reflective writing to deepen awareness and improve relationships in medicine and healthcare. In this experiential workshop, we will explore and traverse the worlds of the spiritual and the secular using this framework.
As a result of attending this session, participants will be acquainted with the operational tenets of narrative medicine, its various applications, and its value and connection to spiritual care in secular clinical contexts.
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Workshop 5 -- Viriditas: An Audience with Hildegard of Bingen (Room 202)​

Led by Katherine Burke, MFA, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Program in Medical Humanities, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Amy Greene, DMin, MDiv, Director of Spiritual Care, Cleveland Clinic 
​At about the age of 40, 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen had a divine vision instructing her to write. This midlife crisis/awakening was the inciting incident that provoked Hildegard to reimagine her life. For the next 40 years she tirelessly produced liturgical drama and music, theological texts, medical and botanical manuscripts, poetry, and even an entire language. Hildegard used the Latin viriditas—greenness, vitality, growth, and blooming—to describe not only the botanical world and the healing power of plants, but the spiritual and creative force within humans. Through her writing, Hildegard encourages us to reimagine our own lives and the practice of health care to honor and nurture viriditas in each of us. This Verbatim Theatre performance (theatre derived from extant texts, interviews, and other first-person sources) weaves together Hildegard’s writings to explore her work in botany, medicine, and religion, as well as her own experience as a woman in midlife. The audience members play the part of some of the many pilgrims who traveled long distances to seek healing and divine insight from Hildegard. Most medical history books pay little attention to the profound contributions of women. This performance seeks to remedy that omission by illuminating Hildegard’s significant medical work, describing herbal remedies, healing practices, and the intersection of religion, the arts, and medicine.  A facilitated dialogue with Hildegard follows the 30-minute performance, in which audience members can ask Hildegard, directly or written on cards, questions about spirituality, health, remedies, and viriditas.
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Panel 1 -- Healing and Economy: The Question of Charity in a Secular Age (Room 240)

Panelists -- Matthew Elmore, MA, ThD Student, Duke Divinity School; Farr Curlin, MD, Duke University; Mariana Cuceau, MD, MPH, PhD(c), Gr. T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi; Rick Moreno, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago 
​Once, the hospital was a novel idea. Bedside medical service had been the aristocrat’s privilege; physicians made house calls on a fee-for-service basis, or else they worked at cultic sites for pilgrims who found their own accommodations. The hospital thus reformed Hippocratic custom, creating a new space-time in which to imagine medicine. Conceived by the church as an administration of care for the poor, the hospital also signified an evolution of the Pauline social imaginary: the powerless were necessary members, indeed worthy of special treatment. This panel will discuss the possibilities and thresholds of such a vision in today’s medical context. Drawing from the paradigm found in eastern Patristic theology, each panelist will reflect on their experience in clinical and ecclesial structures, asking: how does my lived reality interact with the tradition of radical charity?
4:55 - 5:55 p.m.   CMR Advisory Board Business Meeting  (Executive Board Room)

6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Dinner Discussions at Area Restaurants (Sign-up at the Registration Table)
Monday,​
March 23, 2020

Conference Begins

7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Registration/Information  (Ballroom Foyer)

7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Catholic Mass (Room 140)  & Protestant Worship (Room 202)

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast  (Ballroom)

8:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. - Parallel Sessions (Papers)

8:30 - 8:55 a.m.
The Concept of Qi in Tai Chi and Qigong: Pseudoscientific, But So What?  (Room 140)
George Bao, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

We Are Not Good Samaritans: A Familiar Tale Re-visited (Room 202)
Zane Yi, PhD, Associate Professor, Loma Linda University

Imagining a Future for Religious Bioethics (Room 230)
Bharat Ranganathan, PhD, Beamer-Schneider SAGES Fellow in Ethics, Case Western Reserve University

Accountability as a Virtue in Mental Health and Human Flourishing (Room 240)
John Peteet, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

From Martyrdom to Miracles: Faithful Christian Responses at the End of Life (Room 302)
Calvin Gross, BA, Fellow, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School
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Letting Go: the Good Death and Ethics of Dying Well (Room 330)
Roberto Dell'Oro; PhD, Director and Professor, Bioethics Institute Loyola Marymount University

Re-examining Depressive Realism in Christian Concepts of Suffering (Room 340)
Samantha Yates, BS in Biochemistry, Duke Divinity School

8:55 - 9:20 a.m.
Assessing the Spiritual Needs of Patients Awaiting Heart Transplantation (Room 140)
Elie Ellenberg, BA, PI, University of Michigan

Commoditizing Christianity with Women’s Bodies: From an Analysis of Japanese Discourse of Western Surrogate Mothers (Room 202)
Yoshie Yanagihara, PhD, Assistant Professor, Tokyo Denki University

Humble Thyself: The Imitation of Christ in Medical Missions (Room230)
Danielle Ellis, Medical Student, Duke Divinity School

Catholic Eucharistic Anamnesis, Jewish Remembrance of Liberation at Pesach, and the Healing of First Responders Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Room 240)
Joel Warden, PhD, Catholic Scholar in Residence, St. Francis College, Brooklyn

The Role of Religiosity/Spirituality and Medical Socialization in Medical Student Moral Foundations (Room 302)
Aaron Franzen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hope College

Beyond Autonomy: Engaging a Theological Anthropology of Childhood for Pediatric Bioethics and Clinical Practice 
(Room 330)
Jessica Bratt Carle, PhD, MDiv, Chaplain, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI

A Call for the Return of Compassion in Medicine (Room 340)
Anita Chang, DO, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Ohio State University

9:20 - 9:45 a.m.
New Secular Laws on Conscientious Objection, Physician Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia (Room 140)
Kevin Powell, MD, PhD 

True to Tradition? A Qualitative Study of Clergy Attitudes toward Vaccine Advocacy (Room 202)
Joshua Williams, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics / General Pediatrician, University of Colorado School of Medicine / Denver Health Medical Center

Locating Health in the Human Subject: How the Philosophical Anthropology of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas can help both Patients and Doctors (Room 230)
Fr. Raymund Snyder, OP, STB/MDiv and PhL, Adjunct Lecturer, Pontifical College Josephinum

The Importance of Returning to an Evaluation of the Tradition of Medicine in the Age of CRISPR-Cas9 (Room 240)
Ashlyn Stackhouse, BS in Biology, TMC Fellowship at Duke Divinity

A Multi-Site Study of Christian-Based Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Focus on East Asian Canadians (Room 302)
Wai Lun Alan Fung, MD, ScD, Research Professor, Tyndale University College and University of Toronto

The Garden, the Tree and the Gift of Obedience: A Christian Perspective on the Proper Expression and Limits of Autonomy (Room 330)
Nicole Shirilla, MD, Assistant Professor/Palliative Medicine Physician and Clinical Ethics Consultant, Ohio State University Medical Center

Gratitude: Intrinsic Virtue or Self-Help Intervention? Paradoxical Effects of Expressing Gratitude to Help Oneself 
(Room 340)
David Cregg, MA, Doctoral Student, The Ohio State University

9:45 - 10:10 a.m.
Resurrecting the 'Nature of a Child' : Hippocrates, Mark 5:20, and the Anatomical Renderings of Frederik Ruysch 
(Room 140)
Jessica Shand, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center

The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Management of Chronic Illness (Room 202)
John Graham, MD, DMin, President/CEO, Institute for Spirituality and Health

Developing a Curricular Mapping Evaluation of Altruism, Compassion, and Empathy (ACE) in the Preclinical Years at a Southern School of Medicine (Room 230)
Janet Armitage, PhD, Associate Professor, St. Mary's University; and Sue P. Nash, PhD, St. Mary's University

Martin Buber's Religious Humanism as an Ethical Basis for Secular Medical Practice (Room 240)
Alan Astrow, MD, Chief, Medical Oncology and Hematology, New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College

Conflict or Cooperation?: Institutional Responses to the Opioid Crisis and the Role of Religious Communities (Room 302)
Brett McCarty, ThD, Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Instructor in Population Health Sciences, Duke University

The Purpose of Doubt: What Religion Teaches Us About Its Place In Medicine (Room 330)
Jessica Frey, MD, Resident Physician, West Virginia University

"A Drug of Such Damn'd Nature": Trust, Education and the Hippocratic Oath in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and All's Well that Ends Well (Room 340)
Brian Quaranta, MD, MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center

10:10 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. - Break

10:35 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. - Parallel Sessions (Papers, Panels and a Workshop)

10:35 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Papers)
The Body of Christ: Technology and Communities Maintaining Personhood in ALS (Room 202)
Philip Choi, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

Liturgies and Tradition in Medicine: Serving a Diverse World (Room 330)
Nathaniel Brown, MD, PhD, Staff Physician & Senior Instructor, Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC & University of Colorado SOM

11:00 - 11:25 a.m. (Papers)
A More Excellent Way: Recovering Mystery in Contemporary Care (Room 202)
Joshua Genig, PhD, Chaplain Resident, University of Michigan Medical Center

The Lens of Communal Health in Liberation Theology and Liberation Psychology (Room 330)
Jesse Perillo, PhD, Part-time Lecturer, DePaul University

11:25 - 11:50 a.m. (Papers)
The Art of Dying in the 21st Century (Room 202)
Courtney Campbell, PhD, Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon State University

Addressing Spiritual Concerns in the Emergency Department (Room 330)
Jennifer Frush, MD Candidate (2021), MTS Candidate (2020), Duke University

10:35 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (Panels)
Rooted Medicine: Deepening Medical Student's Education through Theological Studies (Room 230)
Moderator: Zane Yi, PhD Loma Linda School of Religion Program Director, MA Religion & Society Associate Professor, Theology Area 
Panelists: Landon Sayler, MA Curriculum and Instruction, MA Religion and Society, Loma Linda University;  Jonathon Goorhuis, MA Religion and Society, Loma Linda University; Andrew Krause; and Kristoff Foster

The Great Ambiguity of “Medicine”: Science? Art? Magic? Technique? Mechanics? Guild? Profession? Other?…or All?! 
(Room 240)
Moderator: Matthew Vest, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Ohio State University, Division of Bioethics
Panelists: Autumn Ridenour, PhD, Assistant Professor, Religious and Theological Studies, Merrimack College;  Nicole Shriller, MD, Palliative Care, Ohio State University; and  Ethan Schimmoeller, MS-4, U of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Cultivating Faithful Imagination for Healthcare: Christian Tradition and the Formation of Medical Practitioners (Room 302)
Moderator: Therese Lysaught
Panelists: Brett McCarty, ThD, Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Instructor in Population Health Sciences, Duke University; Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD, University;  Danielle Ellis, Duke University ; and Ben Frush, Vanderbilt University.

Resources for Healing Today and Foundations for Curing Tomorrow: What Can We Learn from the Islamic Tradition?
(Room 340)
Moderator: Ahsan Arozullah, MD, MPH, Member, Board of Directors, Darul Qasim Institute
Panelists: Yasir N. Akhtar, MD, North Knoxville Medical Center, Tennova Heart Institute; Omar Hussain, DO, Clinical Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; Akbar M. Ali, MD, Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine, NorthShore University Health System; and Umar M. Shakur, DO, Darul Qasim Institute

10:35 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (Workshop) 
Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through Each of the Four Main Belief Systems (Room 140)
Kelvin Chin, Juris Doctorate, Masters Degree, Executive Director, Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation
11:50 a.m. - 1:10 p.m. - Lunch, Welcome and Plenary One  (Ballroom) -- “Living in the Wounds of Secularity: Christian Musings on Healing Medicine’s Secular/Religious Divide”   Jeffrey P. Bishop, MD, PhD, Professor of Philosophy,
Professor of Theological Studies, Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Care Ethics
Saint Louis University
​2020 Englehardt Award Winner -  Presented by The Foundation for Bioethics and Ohio State University's Center for Bioethics
​1:10 p.m. - 2:25 p.m. - Parallel Sessions  (Papers, a Panel and a Workshop)
1:10 - 1:35 p.m. (Papers)
Created in the Image of G-d: Depicting G-d in a World of Neuroimaging (Room 230)
Jessica Frey, MD, Resident Physician, West Virginia University

“And He Laid His Hands on Her:” A Theological Presentation of Osteopathic Medicine (Room 240)
Michael Davis, Medical Student, Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine

Medicine and the Grief Tradition: Augustine and Stoic Philosophy (Room 302)
Jane Abbottsmith, MD/PhD Program, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Religious Studies
Student Essay, Honorable Mention

Faithful Improvisation and Dissonance: On Life as Embodied Music (Room 330)
Tyler Couch, Medical Student, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

Clinical Trials of Gene Editing Therapeutics Using CRISPR Technology: Halachic Considerations and Guidelines (Room 340)
Frank Lieberman, MD, Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Medical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

1:35 - 2:00 p.m. (Papers)
The Expectations of Religious Patients: What Scholars Say They Expect vs. What They Actually Expect (Room 230)
Nicholas Colgrove, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Wake Forest University

Expanding the Tradition: Global Public Health as Priority for the Catholic Church’s Healthcare Ministry (Room 240)
Joshua Snyder, PhD, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Theology, Boston College

Sharing is Caring: Healthcare Sharing Ministries and the Christianization of Healthcare in the United States (Room 302)
David Streed, Master in Theological Studies Candidate, Harvard Divinity School
Student Essay, Honorable Mention

Applying the Grammar of Assent to Address Greenblum and Hubbard’s ‘Public Reason’ Argument (Room 330)
Paul Riffon, MA Theology, PhD Student, St. Louis University

Jewish Medical Ethics and the Power of Parable (Room 340)
Ezra Gabbay, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

2:00 - 2:25 p.m. (Papers)
The Nature of Death and the Death of Nature: The Limit Experience of Eva Saulitis (Room 230)
Aaron Kerr, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gannon University College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

Trading Traditions of Cartesian Dualism for Pauline Anthropology in Critical Care: Understanding and Mitigating Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) (Room 240)
Anna Berry, Medical Student; Theology, Medicine and Culture Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine; Duke Divinity School

New York’s Reproductive Health Act: Empowering the Exercise of the Fundamental Right to Women’s Health? (Room 302)
Addison Tenorio, Health Care Ethics MA/Ph.D. Candidate, St. Louis University
Student Essay, Honorable Mention

The Prospect of a Christian Post-Liberal Biopolitics (Room 330)
Kyle Karches, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University

God, Please; Heal Her, Please (Room 340)
Adam Baruch, MD, Department of Psychiatry; Associate Director of University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion, University of Michigan

1:10 - 2:25 p.m. (Panel)
Conscientious Refusals in Health Care (Room 140)
Panelists: Jason Eberl, PhD, Director and Professor of Health Care Ethics, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University; Abram Brummett, Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College; and Lisa Fullam, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University

1:10 - 2:25 p.m. (Workshop)
Closing a Medical and Spiritual “Gap of Care” for Patients Who Have Near-Death Experiences (Room 202)
Diane Corcoran, Ph.D., Retired US Army Col. and RN, and President of IANDS, International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) ; Dr. Ingrid Honkala, Marine Biologist, Oceanographer, Master Scuba Diver, NASA and Navy Scientist, international lecturer, childhood near-death and spiritual transformative experiencer (NDEr and STEr);  Lilia Samoilo has been a mental health and spiritual counselor for thirty-five years. She is a medical and spiritual intuitive, an international veteran NDE advocate/NDE educator, a co-associate of Dr. Corcoran’s Vet NDE Project, and a contributor for the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) in their NDE Research Project; and  Reverend Peter Baldwin Panagore, MDiv, Yale Divinity School, had his first near-death experience (NDE) in March of 1981, at twenty-one years old, while ice climbing. 
2:25 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. - Break

2:50 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. - Parallel Sessions (Papers and Panels)

2:50 - 3:15 p.m. (Papers)
Physician-Patient Disclosure: Transitioning from Truth to Trust (Room 202)
Karl Wallenkampf, Medical Student, MA in Bioethics Student, Loma Linda University School of Medicine & School of Religion

Transcendent Consciousness Research- Near-Death vs. Spiritual Contemplative Experiences (Room 230)
Robert Hesse, PhD, Adjunct Professor & Faculty, University of St. Thomas & Institute for Spirituality and Health

When the Advance Directive is More Human Than the Patient: Rethinking Capacity in Eating and Drinking Decisions
(Room 302)
Jordan Mason, Joint PhD in Theology and Health Care Ethics Candidate, Saint Louis University
Student Essay, Runner-Up

The Religious and the Secular: Wall of Separation? (Room 330)
Jonathan Imber, PhD, Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College

Racial Attitudes and Support for the Affordable Care Act among U.S. Protestants (Room 340)
Berkeley Franz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Community-based Health, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

3:15 - 3:40 p.m. (Papers)
Hippocratic Oath: Past, Present or Future? (Room 202)
Dmitry Balalykin, Dr. Med., Dr.Hist., Ph.D. in Philosophy, Full Professor / Leading Research Fellow, FSSBI N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health

The Religiously Unaffiliated in 2020: The Influences and Roles of the "Nones" in Contemprary Healthcare (Room 230)
Mary Lynn Dell, MD. DMin, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Pediatrics, The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital

“What Do You Hope For?” How A Theological Understanding of Hope Can Improve End-of-Life Care (Room 302)
Andrea Thornton, Ph.D. in Theology and Health Care Ethics Candidate, Saint Louis University
Student Essay Award Winner

How Not to Be Secular in Religion and Medicine (Room 330)
Jon Tilburt, MD, Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics, Mayo Clinic

Hippocratic Ethics and Hindu Dharma: Conflict and Recovery (Room 340)
Deepak Sarma, PhD, Philosophy of Religion, Professor of South Asian Religions/ Professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University

3:40 - 4:05 p.m. (Papers)
Exceptional Citizens: Veterans and Health Care (Room 202)
Brandy Fox, PhD candidate, Saint Louis University

Taking the Body Seriously: Reclaiming the ‘Mysterious’ and Placing it in the Hospital (Room 230)
Jack Horton, Student - Master of Theological Studies, Duke Divinity School

Recovering the Original Covenantal Spirit of the Hippocratic Oath (Room 302)
Jonathan Wispe, MD, MTS,Center Member (OSU) and Attending Neonatologist (PMG), The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and Pediatrix Medical Group

None of My Business?: Why it is Both Dangerous and Impossible for Physicians to Avoid Theology (Room 330)
Wilson Ricketts, Medical Student, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine​

Shields of Power: Amulets as Medical Intervention Inside Islamic West Africa (Room 340)
Syeda Beena Butool, MPhil, Graduate Teaching Assistant, PhD (c), Florida State University

2:50 - 4:05 p.m. (Panels)
Medical, Theological, and Philosophical Reflections on the Convictions and Tolerance of Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici
(Room 140)
Moderator: Richard Gunderman MD, PhD Indiana University School of Medicine
Panelists: Alex Lion, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine; and Robert Saler PhD, ThM, MDiv, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN

Is There a Future for Hippocratic Medicine? (Room 240)
Moderator: Farr Curlin, MD, Josiah Trent Professor of Medical Humanities, Duke University
Panelists: Ryan Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM, The Ohio State University;  Eddie Reichman, MD, Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center; and Asma Mobin-Uddin, MD, The Ohio State University
4:05 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Break
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Plenary  Two (Ballroom) - "Hippocrates in the Epigenetic Age"  Julia Hawkins, PhD, Associate Professor of Classics, Ohio State University, Project Director for Medical and Health Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme
5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. - Reception and Poster Session (Ballroom Foyer)

Posters: 

Addressing Spirituality and Religion in Health Care Delivery: Comparing Provider and Patient Perspectives at the University of Michigan
Nadia Sebastian Kettinger, MD, PhD, University of Michigan

An Evolving Ethics Practice in Catholic Healthcare
Christina Namakydoost, MA, CHRISTUS Spohn Health System

Do No Harm: Moral Distress in Healthcare
Priscilla Mondt, PhD, Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks 

Efficacy of Chaplain Support in the Pre-Surgery Holding Area
Patricia Roberts, MDiv, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital; Jesse Watson, Chaplain.

Exploring the Chaplain's use of "Holy Listening Stones" in Pre-transplant Evaluations
Cassidy Wohlfarth, MDiv, Children's Health; Courtney Webb; Ryan Campbell; Kelli Triplett and Richard Kirk, Children's Health

Exploring Surgeons' Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the Bloodless Policy and Emergency Treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses Relative to Patient-Centered Care and Evidence-Based Medicine
Firpo Carr, PhD, Instructor/Independent Researcher, University of Phoenix

God Attachment Theory: Integrating Spiritual, Mental and Physical Health
Priscilla Mondt, PhD, Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks 

How Religious Communities Relate Physical Health to Theology
Bonnie Williams, BA, Furman University

Importance of Spiritual History Taking and Religiously Affiliated Care: The Patient’s Perspective
Jeffrey Fuchs, BS, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Insights on Pain Management from a Hindu Perspective
Anita Vasudevan, B.S., University of Michigan Medical School

“It is the Will of God:” Religion’s Influence on Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling (MITS) through the CHAMPS Network in Bangladesh and Sierra Leone
Ashley Meehan, Master of Public Health, Emory University

Medical Students' Names for the Transcendent
Cindy Schmidt, PhD, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences

RAMCOM: A Tool for Communication with Muslim Patients Considering Fasting During Ramadan
Ahmed Abdelmageed, Pharm D, Manchester University 

The Association Between Spirituality and Clinical Diagnostic Profiles Among Medical Inpatients of a General Hospital in Brazil
Laura Castro, MS, Graduate Student, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, and Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Co-Authors: Tracy A. Balboni, MD, and John Peteet, MD, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School; and Fátima Cintra - Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo

The Evolving Tradition of Hope in the Abrahamic Religions and Medicine
Faraze Niazi, MD, West Virginia University

The Hippocractic Oath Within an Interfaith Context
 Jonathan Kopel, BS, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

The Power of Painting in Narrative Medicine
Sumner Abraham, MD, University of Virginia 

The Use of Prayer in the Management of Pain - A Systematic Review
Marta Illueca, MD, MDiv, MSc, Curate, The Episcopal Church in Delaware

Thinking Outside the Lines: When Substance Abuse Patients Find a “Higher Power” a Road Block
Elizabeth Goeke, MDiv, Director of Spiritual Care, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

Utilizing Live Guided Meditation Via Computer for the Reduction of Employee Stress
Patricia Roberts, MDiv, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital; Vivian Oliver, Chaplain

Values-Based Holistic Care for Communities in Need: The Example of Asha
John Peteet, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. -  Dinner Discussions at Area Restaurants (Sign-up at the Registration Table)
Tuesday
March 24, 2020

7:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Registration/Information  (Ballroom Foyer)

7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Catholic Mass (Room 140) & Protestant Worship (Room 202)

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast  (Ballroom)

8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. - Parallel Sessions (Papers, Panels and a Workshop)

8:30 - 8:55 a.m. (Papers)
Cervical Cancer Screening: Are We Doing it “Righteously”?  (Room 202)
Sondos Al Sad, MD, MPH, NCMP, Assistant Professor - Clinical, The Ohio State University

Mental Illness in China: Sociopolitical Phases in the Evolution of Psychiatry and Perspectives from a Theology of Harmony
(Room 240)
Jennifer Tu, MD, MTS, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow, Duke School of Medicine, Duke Divinity School

Transhumanism, Newtonian Motion, and the Incarnation (Room 302)
Jordan Mason, MDiv, Graduate Student, St. Louis University

Death and Dying in Hippocratic Medicine (Room 330)
Calvin Gross, BA, Fellow, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School

8:55 - 9:20 a.m. (Papers)
Transforming Trauma Recovery in Health Care: Faith as the Linchpin of Post-Traumatic Growth (Room 202)
Beth Reece, MDiv, Manager of Spiritual Care/Chaplain, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

The Relational Theology of Medicine (Room 240)
Kristin Collier, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

Ethical Challenges in Regulatory Medicine: A Christian’s Perspective from the Regulatory Trenches (Room 302)
James Rusthoven, MD, PhD, Medical Officer and Evaluator, Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate, Health Canada

Postsecular Medical Education: (Pre-)Ethics, Homo Liturgicus, and Hidden Curricula (Room 330)
D. Brendan Johnson, BA, TMC Fellow, Duke University

9:20 - 9:45 a.m. (Papers)
Scrupulosity in 17th- and 18th-Century Divines: An Illness or a Sin? (Room 202)
Derek McAllister, MA, PhD (c) , Baylor University

A Thousand and One Thebasian Noons: Transhumanism and Acedia (Room 240)
Benjamin Parks, MDiv, PhD (c), Teaching Assistant, St. Louis University

When Healthcare Professionals and Patients Lack a Shared Faith: Toward a Socratic Model (Room 302)
Trevor Bibler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Chesed in the Clinic: Covenantal Medicine in Light of Karl Barth’s Theology (Room 330)
Travis Pickell, PhD, Associate Director of University Engagement, Anselm House

8:30 - 9:45 a.m. (Panels)
But Who Has Tradition Left Behind? (Room 140)
Moderator: Kathryn Sheldon, MA, PhD Fellow, St. Louis University
Panelists: Hazel Elizabeth Koshy, MA, JD, Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia;  Lauren Baker, PhD(c),  St. Louis University; Brandy Fox, PhD(c) , St. Louis University; and Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD(c), St. Louis University

Disability in Christian Thought (Room 340)
Moderator: Jason Eberl, PhD, Director and Professor of Health Care Ethics, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University
Panelists: Kevin Timpe, Calvin University; Devan Stahl, Baylor University;  Sarah Jean Barton, Western Theological Seminary; and Keith Dow, Christian Horizons, Vrije Universiteit

8:30 - 9:45 a.m. (Workshop)
"In the Image" In the Clinic: Applying Genesis 1 to Modern Medicine (Room 330)
Jonathan Weinkle, MD, Medical Director, Physician Assistant Studies; Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Family Medicine, Chatham University; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

9:45 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. - Break

10:10 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Plenary Three (Ballroom)  "The Sixty Books of Hippo-crates and the Five Books of Moses: Conflict or Consonance​?"   
​Eddie Reichman, MD Professor of Emergency Medicine and Professor in the Division of Education and Bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
11:10 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.  - Break

11:35 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.​​ - Parallel Sessions  (Papers and Panels)

11:35 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (Papers)
CDC Engagement with Community and Faith-Based Organizations in Public Health Emergencies (Room 140)
Scott Santibañez, MD DMin MPHTM, Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections

Chaplain Care in the MICU at the End of Life: A Qualitative Analysis (Room 230)
Ian McCurry, BSN, Medical Student/Adjunct Clinical Chaplain, University of Pennsylvania Health System

The Prince of Physicians and the Metaphysics of Death: The Case of Avicenna's Logical Dissection (Room 240)
Kimbell Kornu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University

Hezekiah's Prayer: the Aftermath of Healing (Room 302)
Grace Oei, MD, MA, Director of Clinical Ethics, Loma Linda University Health

12:00 p.m. - 12:25 p.m. (Papers)

Weight Bias and Stigma in Healthcare Settings. Has Obsession with BMI (Body Mass Index) Caused Medical Practitioners to Forget the Tenet of the Prayer of Maimonides: “In the Sufferer Let Me See Only the Human Being”? (Room 140)
Anne Emmerich, MD, Ma, Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Love Others as You Love Yourself: Bearing the Suffering of Others Through Trauma Stewardship (Room 230)
Natalie Cyphers, PhD in Nursing, Associate Professor, DeSales University

Exploring Physician Identity from an Islamic and Contemporary Western Perspective (Room 240)
Nabeel Salka, MSE, Medical Student, University of Michigan Medical School

Are We Talking the Same Language? Results of an International Delphi Study Evaluating Cross-Disciplinary consensus of the RHIBS Taxonomy (Room 302)
Riya Patel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Coventry University

12:25 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. ( Papers)
Increasing Spiritually-Competent Healthcare through an Innovative Interfaith Mobile Application (Room 140)
Lawrence Lin, MD, Resident Surgeon, The Ohio State University

Approaching the Mystery of Death: Liturgical Morality and Dying in the 21st Century (Room 230)
Ethan Schimmoeller, Medical Student,  The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Division of Bioethics
 
Continuity in Christian Medicine and the Case of St. Luka, The Blessed Surgeon (Room 240)
Ryan Nash, MD,MA, Director, OSU Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, The Ohio State University; and Nataliya Shok, Dr. Sc.(history of medicine), Professor, Department of Social and Humanitarian Science, Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Getting Real About the Difference Between Killing and Allowing to Die (Room 302)
Andrew Stumpf, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, St. Jerome's University

11:35 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. (Panels)
Back to the Future: A Feminist Revision of the History of Medicine and Christianity (Room 202)
Moderator: Alyssa Foll, MA -- Systematic Theology, Healthcare Chaplain, AMITA Health
Panelists: Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Hulford, DMin, BCC, Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, Lemont, Illinois. Healthcare and Mental Health Chaplain and Dr. Tina Decker, RN, DNP, Professor of Nursing, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois. 

“Narrow is the Way”: Clinical Practice, Scholarship, and Christian Discipleship (Room 330)
Moderator: Sarah Barton, ThD, Henri Nouwen Fellow, Western Theological Seminary
Panelists:  Dr. Devan Stahl, Baylor University; Dr. Warren Kinghorn, Duke Divinity School; and  Dr. Todd Whitmore, University of Notre Dame

True to Tradition? Religious Roots of Modern Public Health and Emerging Paradigms of Practice (Room 340)
Moderator: Katelyn Long, DrPH, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Human Flourishing Program, Harvard University
Panelists: Dr. Susan Holman, Valparaiso University; Dr. Ellen Idler, Emory University;  Dr. Josh Williams, University of Colorado Denver ; and  Dr. Blake Kent, Harvard University/MGH Center on Genomics ​
12:50 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Plenary Four (Ballroom) "The Influence of Early Muslim Physicians and Classical Islamic Scholars on the Development of Modern Psychiatry"  Rania Awaad, MD Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine
2:00 - 3:40 p.m. - Parallel Sessions (Papers)
​2:00 - 2:25 p.m. -  (Papers)
Mental Well-Being Effects of Spiritual Practices: Examples of Sufi Practices in Britain (Room 140)
Merve Cetinkaya, BA, MA, PhD Student, University College London

It Happened Here Before It Happened There:  The Relevance of the Nazi Analogy (Room 202)
Harvey Berman, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo

Health Policy in the Margins (230)
Grant Martsolf, PhD, Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing

A Columbus Physician in Diplomatic Court (Room 302)
Susan Holman, PhD, John R. Eckrich Chair and Professor of Religion and the Healing Arts, Valparaiso University

A Call to Reinvest in the Hippocratic Tradition (Room 330)
Sumner Abraham, MD, Chief Resident in Department of Medicine, University of Virginia

​2:25 - 2:50 p.m. -  (Papers)
Mosque-based Health Literacy Assessment and Intervention: A Pilot Study (Room 140)
Sondos Al Sad, MD, MPH, NCMP, Assistant Professor - Clinical, The Ohio State University
​
In the Face of Dangerous Work: Lessons from Luther’s Treatise During the Bubonic Plague (Room 202)
Emmy Yang, BS, Fellow in Theology, Medicine and Culture, Duke Divinity School

Does the Descriptor “Interfaith” Help Us or Harm Us? (Room 302)
Joel Pacyna, MA, Research Analyst, Mayo Clinic; Jeremiah Stout, Mayo Clinic ;  and Jon Tilburt, Mayo Clinic 

Addressing Complex Hospital Discharge by Cultivating the Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence (Room 330)
Annie Friedrich, MA, Graduate Student, St. Louis University

2:50 - 3:15 p.m. -  (Papers)
Convergence of Science and Spirituality and the Future of Medicine (Room 140)
Syed Jafri, MBBS, Associate professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology, UT Health McGovern School of Medicine

Reproductive Health: What the Birth Control Movement Contributed and How Catholic Moral Theology Can Expand the Clinical Conversation (Room 202)
Kirsten Dempsey, PhD Student, St. Louis University

Death Imaginaries & Religious Affiliation in Contemporary Hospice Spaces (Room 302)
Kate Dean-Haidet, BSN, MSN, MA, PhD Comparative Religion, Program & Practice Development Coordinator; Integrative Mental Health APRN Consultant, OhioHealth Hospice & Palliative Medicine

Not Looking To Get Well: Critiquing Cure Culture with Jane Austen (Room 330)
Jaime Konerman-Sease, MA, Phd Candidate, St. Louis University

3:15 - 3:40 p.m. -  (Papers)
Defining Death: Convergence and Conflict Between Clinical and Islamic Understandings of Death and Implications for End-of-Life Medical Decision-Making (Room 140)
Asma Mobin-Uddin, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Pediatrics, The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities

The Religious Presuppositions of Secular Arguments for Euthanasia (Room 202)
John Tambakis, MDiv (c), Research Student, Department of Medicine - Division of Respirology, University Health Network

Moral Formation Through Art: What a Christian Narrative Might Offer Medical Education in Age of Novelty (Room 302)
John Braucher, MD, MTS, TMC Fellow, DDS; Medical Student, MCG, Duke Divinity School, Medical College of Georgia

The Samaritan Moral Tradition in Medicine (Room 330)
Courtney Campbell, PhD, Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon State University/History, Philosophy & Religion

Conference Concludes
*Schedule is subject to change