Conference Schedule  (as of 3/13/22)        

Sunday
March 13, 2022

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Pre-Conference Activities

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

Improving Access to Spiritual Care as a Key Component of Quality Care (Gallery 2)

​Cultivating Authentic Human Connections in Delivering Medical Care (Gallery 3)

Pedagogy and Practice: Teaching Religion and Medicine Across the Disciplines (Studio)

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​Portland Street Medicine 

3:15 - 3:30 p.m.: Break

3:30 - 4:45 p.m.: Parallel Sessions
Workshops

Settling Into Poetry's Sacred Space (Gallery1)

Re-Imagining Holistic Grief and Bereavement Care Within Healthcare Settings (Gallery 2)

Pioneering Death with Dignity in Oregon (Gallery 3)

Panel
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Teología en la clínica: Latinx theology, accompaniment, and salud en conjunto (Studio)

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​Portland Street Medicine ​

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.: Advisory Board Business Meeting (Meier Board Room)

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.: Group Dinners
Monday
March 14, 2022

7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.: Services (Catholic in Design 2, Jewish in Studio, Protestants in Design 1, Muslim Prayer in Ruby Board room, open throughout the conference.)

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

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

8:30 a.m - 8:55 a.m.
Co-Constructing the Sacred: Why Research Methodology Matters (Gallery 1)

A Planned Catholic Death: An Ethical Analysis of Advance Care Planning Through the Lens of the Catholic Moral Tradition (Gallery 2)

The Secularities of Medicine: When Interpretations of Reality Clash (Gallery3)

Time is the Portal to the Sacred -- As Seen in Jewish Practices in Care of the Sick (Studio)

The Effectiveness of Medical Rituals: An Analogical Argument from Christian Liturgy (Design 1)

The Relationship Between Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health in Adolescents Who Identify as Transgender - A Systematic Review (Design 2) 

Panel

8:55 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Perceiving and Pursuing the Sacred in Birth (Design 2)

Papers

8:55 a.m - 9:20 a.m.
Demons and The Psych Ward: A Meditation (Gallery 1)

Aquinas on Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics ( Gallery2)

Creating Sacred Space for Psychedelic Therapy: Towards an Informed and Inclusive Approach (Gallery 3)

Openings and Closings: The Value of Caring for the Whole Patient in Traditional Jewish Prayer (Studio)

Creating a Sacred Space, Compassionate Listening in Serious Illness and End of Life (Design 1)

9:20 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
A Sacred Response to Suffering in the Clinical Setting (Gallery 1)

Two Internal Critiques for Theists Who Oppose Moral Enhancement on a Process Virtue Basis (Gallery 2)

St. Stephen's, the Confederacy, and Socioreligious Determinants of Health in 2022: A Case Study (Gallery 3)

Shiphra and Puah: What We Can Learn from Our Biblical Matriarchs (Studio)

The Melancholic Christ: Asian American Theology and Responses to Mental Health Stigma and Racialization Among Chinese-American Christian Communities (Design 1)

9:45 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Finding Common Ground: Wrestling With Medical Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Gallery 1)

Is There a Moral Obligation for Christians to be Vaccinated for COVID-19? (Gallery 2)

Making Space for the Sacred in Mental Healthcare: Acedia & Spiritual Practices (Gallery 3)

The Church and Academia Model - A Pilot Project  (Studio)

Sacred Space, Anti-Space, and Junk Space: Political Eschatology and Medicine (Design 1)

10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Opening Plenary Session (Culture and Fashion Ballroom)
Welcome to the Conference -- Our 10th Year -- Co-Founder, Farr Curlin, MD, Duke University and Conference Host Chair, Courtney Campbell, PhD, Oregon State University
Keynoter Introduced by Abraham Nussbaum, MD, Denver Health
Keynote by Victoria Sweet, M.D., "On Not Making Space for the Sacred in Medicine"

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch  (Culture and Fashion Ballroom)

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: Parallel Sessions (Papers, Panels and a Workshop)
Papers

1:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
Physician Assisted Death: Creating Space for the Discussion Within Christian Bioethics (Gallery 1)

Utilizing Poetry as Non-Denominational Spiritual Care for Hospital Staff (Studio)

"The Sufferings of this Present Time: COVID-19, Racism and Christian Theology of Illness" -- Jason Ashe, PhD student, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Student Award Winner (3rd Place) (Design 1)

1:25 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Neutral No More: A Defense of Religious Pluralism Within Healthcare (Gallery1)

Natality and the Sacredness of Interdependence (Studio)

Death in the Hospital: An Examination of Patient-Centeredness and Consumerism in Hospital Design (Design 1)

1:50 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Comparative Portrayals of Patients in Hospitals and Monastic Infirmaries in Early Christian Sources (Gallery 1)

The Quasi-Religious Nature of Secular Clinical Ethics (Studio)

"Limits of the Secular Self: Dementia and the Biopolitics of Secularism" -- Nicholas Covaleski, PhD Student, Boston University. Student Award Winner (1st Place) (Design 1)

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

Panels

Equipping Clergy to Make Space for the Sacred in Response to Substance Use Issues (Gallery 2)

The Book of Job in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology: Context for Distinct Spiritual Narratives and Addressing Suffering (Gallery 3)

Workshop
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Making Healthcare Whole: Implementing a Muslim Patient Visitation Program (Design 2)

2:15 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.: Break
2:40 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.: Parallel Sessions (Papers, Panels and a Workshop)
Papers

2:40 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
Truthfulness in the Professional-Patient Relationship: An Incommensurable Problem for Secular Medicine (Design 1)

Human Nature as Given, or Human Nature as Gift? (Design 2)

3:05 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Solidarity in the Patient-Physician Relationship: Lessons from Catholic Social Teaching (Design 1)

Laughter as a Medicine for Human Resistance Against the Powers and Principalities Afflicting Our World: Reclamation of Sacred Space to Attend to the Suffering And Devastation Across Time (Design 2)

3:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
Religious Accommodation or Professional Indoctrination? Experiences of Muslim Physicians in Academic Medicine (Design 1)

It Would Be a Miracle If We Knew What We Were Talking About... (Design 2)

2:40 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
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Panels

Disseminating Addiction-Related Health Information within Churches: The Need for TRUE Collaboration (Gallery 1)

The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice (Gallery 2)

Suffer the Little Children": Analyzing Uses and Abuses of Metaphorical Language in Pediatric Medicine (Gallery 3)

Workshop
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"From the Narrow Place I Called to You:" The Passover Seder as a Model for Healing (Studio)

3:55 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.: Break

4:20 p.m. - 5:35 p.m.: Plenary Session #2 (Culture and Fashion Ballroom)
Keynoter introduced by Tyler Tate, MD, MA, Oregon Health and Science University
Ben Danielson, M.D., "Will Tomorrow Know We Advanced Dignity?  Making the Practice of Dignity and Anti-Racism Central in Our Work and Lives"

5:35 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.: Poster Session, Authors and Reception (City View Living Room)

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Group Dinners
Tuesday
March 15, 2022

7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.: Services (Catholic in Design 2, Jewish in Studio, Protestants in Design 1, Muslim Prayer in Ruby Board room, open throughout the conference.)
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7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast (Culture and Fashion Ballroom)

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

8:30 a.m - 8:55 a.m.
In the Shadow of Success: COVID-19, John Henry Newman, and Medical Education (Gallery 1)

The Impact of Climate Change on the Health of Marginalized Communities: Overcoming Structures of Sin Through Theological Narratives (Gallery 2)

Clergy and Community Leaders as Vaccination Advocates in Rural Guatemala (Gallery3)

Are You Really Listening? Lessons from Spiritual Direction in the Care of Nonverbal Patients (Studio)

Biathanatos Revisited: Anabaptist Perspectives on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking in the Face of Terminal Illness (Design 1)

The Use of Religion-Based Alternative and Complimentary Healing Practices Amongst Muslim Women in Chicago (Design 2) 

8:55 a.m - 9:20 a.m.
Agape Love - A Foundational Ethic for the Faithful Practice of Medicine (Gallery 1)

The Body is an Open Field: Intersections of Disability and Caste (Gallery 2)

Prolonged Grief Disorder: Implications for Rituals and Medical Practice (Gallery 3)

Religiosity in Patients Receiving Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease (Studio)

Creating a Sacred Space for Bereavement (Design 1)

The Good Samaritan Framework for Caring for Pregnant Patients With Opioid Use Disorder (Design 2)

9:20 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Rooted: Toward the Normalization of "Radical" Forms of Care (Gallery 1)

The Death of Brain Death: A Christian Perspective (Gallery 2)

Joanna Cannon Leaves Medicine To Pursue A Physician's Calling (Gallery 3)

Patient Care as Sacred Rite: How Confucian Li Can Bring Meaning to Medical Practice  (Studio)

Can a Kidney Be Given?: Theology of Gift and Organ Donation (Design 1)

Are We Okay? Theologically Informed Pastoral and Clinical Care in the Setting of Reproductive Loss (Design 2)

9:45 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Training in Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces), Trauma-Informed Practice and Self-Care to Equip COVID-era Hospital Chaplains  (Gallery 1)

"Sufficient for the Day is Its Own Trouble": Medicalizing Risk and the Way of Jesus (Gallery 2)

A Liturgical Understanding of Health (Studio)

The Project on the Good Physician: Protective Effects of Religion and Spirituality on Well-Being  (Design 1)

Religious Identity Discrimination in the Physician Workforce: Insights from Two National Surveys of Muslim Clinicians in the United States (Design 2)

10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Plenary Session #3 (Culture and Fashion Ballroom)
An Interfaith Panel Discussion, "Love Your Patient as Yourself -- Reviving Patient-Clinician Relationships"
Moderator: Courtney S. Campbell, PhD, Oregon State University
Presenter: Tyler Tate, MD, MA, Oregon Health and Science University
Panelists:  Vicki Brooks, MDiv, Maitripa College; Allison Kestenbaum, BCC-PCHAC, ACPE, University of California San Diego Health; Asma Mobin-Uddin, MD, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; Micki Varner, MDiv, PeaceHealth Oregon Network; and Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley, PhD, Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch (Culture and Fashion Ballroom)

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: Parallel Sessions (Papers, Workshops and a Panel)

Papers

1:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.
Transfiguring Suffering: Suffering as Human Enhancement Unto Deification (Studio)

1:25 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Medical Illness, Diabetes and Fasting in Ramadan: Space for the Sacred in the Context of Sickness (Studio)

1:50 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Hajj on Hold: Balancing Public Health and Religious Practice During COVID-19 (Studio1)

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

Workshops

Beyond Brainfulness: Why Self-Care and Stress Management Won't Heal Our Patients or Ourselves (Gallery 3)

Spiritual Warfare in the Fight Against COVID-19: Faith Based Practices and Beliefs That Promote Self-Resiliency Among Physicians From Across the World (Design 2)

Panel
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Christianity and Psychiatry (Design 1)

2:15 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.: Break

2:40 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.: Parallel Sessions (Papers and a Panel)
Papers

2:40 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
Theological Activism, The Right to Health, and the Rights of Nature: An Exploration of Shalom (Gallery 1)

Preparing for Life's Only Guarantee: The Space for Religion in African-American Advance Care Planning  (Gallery 3)

AI and Imago Dei: A Christian Response to Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Studio)

Spiritual Well-Being Predicts Nurse Compassion Levels (Design 1)

3:05 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Jesuits' Answer to a Generic Chaplaincy. What Can Ignatian Spirituality Offer to the Contemporary Hospital Pastoral Care?  (Gallery 1)

"I'll Never Come to Resemble This Disaster": The Baconian Character of Physician Aid in Dying and Its Limits in Addressing End of Life Suffering  (Gallery 3)

Healing From the "Violence" of Busyness: A Christian Theological Perspective on Time (Studio)

3:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
Is "Medicine" A Normative Community? (Gallery 1)

Associations Between Religion, Religiosity and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy (Gallery 3)

An Ethic of Neighborly Love (Studio)

Panel

2:40 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
Messy Medicine: How Narrative Medicine Disrupts the Tidiness of the Baconian Project and Illuminates the Sacred Spaces of Stories (Gallery 2)
4:00 p.m.: Conference Ends