Conference Schedule  (as of 3/13/23)        

Sunday
March 12, 2023

2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Pre-Conference Workshops (Click on the Sunday Afternoon Workshops link above for fuller descriptions.)

Islamic Bioethics: What is it? What is it not? And how can it help us in Practice  
Instructor: Aasim I. Padela MD, MSc, FACEP, Chairperson & Director, the Initiative on Islam and Medicine; Professor of Emergency Medicine, Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin
Pfahl 302
Note: This workshop is open to anyone who registers for the Conference on Medicine and Religion, as well as a "stand-alone" at a cost of $50.

Orthodox Christianity and Medicine 
The workshop will be led by four Orthodox Christian academic leaders: Jeffrey Bishop, MD, PhD, Tenet Endowed Chair in Bioethics, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University; Bruce Seraphim Foltz, Emeritus, Professor of Philosophy, Eckerd College; Matthew Vest, PhD, Sr. Lecturer & Assistant Director of Educational Programs in Bioethics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; and Ryan Sampson Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Bioethics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Pfahl 202

Interfaith Engagement and Medicine: Navigating Religious Diversity in Health Care Settings 
Instructors: Suzanne Watts Henderson, PhD, MDiv, Senior Consultant, Strategic Initiatives, Interfaith America; Suraj Arshanapally, MPH; Janice D'souza, MPH; and Anastasia Young, DNP, AGPCPNP-C, Interfaith America’s Healthcare Cohort Lead
Pfahl 140

2:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Have You Sat Too Long in the Valley of Tears? Jewish Teachings on Re-entering the World of the Living After a Loss 
Led by Jonathan Weinkle, MD, FAAP, FACP, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, and Medical Director, PA Studies, Chatham University
Pfahl 230

3:30 - 4:45 p.m.
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Attending to Suffering and Acknowledging the Limitations of Medicine Through Lament 
​Workshop Leaders: Ben Snyder, MD, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Resident, Indiana University School of Medicine; Anastasia Holman, MDiv, MBA, BCC, Director of Chaplaincy Education for Indiana University Health System; Rabbi Bruce J. Pfeffer, MAHL, BCC, Chaplain, Indiana University Health; Mona Raed, MD, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Palliative and Hospice Medicine, Indiana School of Medicine; and Alex Lion, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Cancer Predisposition, Indiana University School of Medicine
Pfahl 230

5:00 - 6:00 p.m.: Executive and Advisory Boards Business Meeting 

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.: Group Dinners (Sign-up at Registration)
 (Currently 4) - Asma Mobin-Uddin, MD, MA, FAAP and Aasim Padela MD, MSc, FACEP, on "Islamic Bioethics"; Suzanne Watts Henderson, PhD, MDiv, on " Interfaith Engagement and Medicine"; Ekaterina Lomperis, PhD, MDiv, on "Theologies of Medicine"; and John Peteet, MD, on "Religion and Mental Health"
Monday
March 13, 2023

7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.: Services -- Catholic (Pfahl 202), Jewish (Pfahl 206), Muslim (Pfahl 210), Protestant (Led by Pastor Grant Eckhart) (Pfahl 230) 

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast (Ballroom)
"Meet the Professor" gatherings, where a more senior leader in the field welcomes others to join him/her at breakfast or lunch to discuss items pertaining to medicine and religion. Look for their tent card, and please join in. (Currently 2) - Kimbell Kornu, MD, PhD, Belmont University; Meet Faculty at The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities.

8:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.:  Paper Presentations 

8:30 - 8:55 a.m.
The Kanzeon Koan and Medicine
Rebecca Doverspike, Staff Chaplain,  St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Pfahl 140

A Critique of Enhancement and Transhumanism Based on Islamic Law and Sufism
Muhammed Volkan Stodolsky, PhD, Dean of Faculty and Chair, Department of Theology, Darul Qasim College
Pfahl 202

Michelangelo and a Blinding Darkness: A Reflection on Finitude and Transcendence in the Vocation of End of Life Care
Nicolle Shirilla, MD, MA, MEd, Assistant Professor in the Division of Bioethics and in the Division of Palliative Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Pfahl 230

Religious Equity and Inclusion in Osteopathic Medical School Curricula: Incorporating a World Religions & Medicine Course into an Osteopathic Medical School
Madison Tarleton, MA, ABD, University of Denver & Iliff School of Theology’s Joint Doctoral Program in the Study of Religion; and a Career and Professional Development Counselor, Rocky Vista University, an Osteopathic Medical School in Parker, Colorado
Pfahl 240

Suspicion vs. Love: Choosing an Effective Hermeneutic for Narrative Interventions into Medical Training
Dominic Robin,  PhD Candidate in English (specialization in medical humanities), St. Louis University
Pfahl 302

Souls at Work: A Critical Reflection on Physicianship and Patienthood
Ashley Moyse, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and McDonald Scholar in the Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is also a research fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford
Pfahl 330

Medicine, Race, and Persons: How the Imago Dei and Philosophy of Race Can Open Our Eyes to the Racialized
Jonathan Avendaño, MDiv student, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow, Latinx Studies Fellow, Duke Divinity School
Pfahl 340
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8:55 - 9:20 a.m.
Vaccine Hesitancy and Resistance: Lessons from an Intrareligious Debate
Jason T. Eberl, PhD, Professor of Health Care Ethics and Philosophy and Director of the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University
Pfahl 140

Associations Between Religious Coping and Subjective Health Among Muslim Patients in the United States 
​Hamza Syed, Product Manager, BetterHelp; Iman Mahoui, Medical Student, University of Rochester; Huma Manjra, Research Assistant, Muslim Mental Health and Islamic Psychology Lab; Fahad Khan, Deputy and Clinical Director, Khalil Center; Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, Medical Student, University of Illinois College of Medicine; Aasim I. Padela, MD, Professor, Emergency Medicine, Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin; Mohamed Hamouda, MD, University of Chicago Medical Center and Initiative on Islam and Medicine; Rania Awaad, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Pfahl 202

The Limits of Holistic Medical Care: Why Social Context Matters for Medicine, from St. Basil’s Hospital to American Hospitals Today
Kayal Parthiban, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow, Duke Divinity School
Pfahl 230 

Feeding the 5,000: A Global Health Reflection on Pragmatic Solidarity in the Midst of Scarcity
Michael Gilbert, Duke University
Pfahl 240

Souls and Secularities: A Thin Account of the Care of Souls in Contemporary Western Medicine
Benjamin Parks, PhD, Assistant Professor, General Education, Mercy College of Ohio
Pfahl 330

Reimagining Medicine as a Practice of Solidarity
Kalei R.J. Hosaka, MD, and Wilson D. Ricketts, MD, Division of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles 
Pfahl 340

9:20 - 9:45 a.m.
Spiritual Suffering, Physical Wounds: What Medieval Theology Can Teach Us about the Ethics of Pain Management
The Rev. Dr. Stewart Clem, Director, Ashley-O'Rourke Center, Aquinas Institute of Theology
Pfahl 140

Comprehensive Healing: An Islamic Metaphysical Framework Applied to Xenotransplantation
Samer Wahood, Medical Student, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Darul Qasim College; Akbar M. Ali, MD, Darul Qasim College; Ahsan Arozullah, MD, Darul Qasim College; Omar Hussain, DO, Clinical Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Darul Qasim College; Umar Shakur, DO, Chief of Cardiology, Insight Hospital and Medical Center, Darul Qasim College; Yasir Akhtar, MBBS, Clinical Adjunct Faculty, Lincoln Memorial University, Darul Qasim College; and Shaykh Mohammad A, Kholwadia, President, Darul Qasim College
Pfahl 202

Last Breath of Life: Phenomenological Analyses of Terminal Cancer and the Experience of Dying
Annalise Mangone, MSc, Faculty Assistant, Department of Anthropology, Washington University
Pfahl 230

Human Flourishing as the Proper Goal of Medicine
Derek Estes, Saint Louis University
Pfahl 240

Eunuchs as Biblical Models of Hope for Detransitioners
Jonathan Clemens, MS, ThM, PA-C, DMSc student, AT Still University 
Pfahl 302
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To Flourish (Even) Unto Death: Toward a Theory of Wellbeing for Serious Illness Care
Tyler Tate, MD, MA, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Doernbecher Bridges Program, Oregon Health and Science University
Pfahl 330 

​On Being Bad: Theological Retrieval as a Means of Harmonizing Spiritual Attachment and Christian Atonement
Brian A. Mesimer, PhD, LPC, Assistant Professor of Counseling, Richmont Graduate University
Pfahl 340

9:45 - 10:10 a.m.
Responses to Mental Health Issues Among Chinese American Christian Communities: Report from Focus Group Conversations
Jennifer Tu, MD, University of California, Los Angeles
Pfahl 140

Caring for the Soul, Muslim Chaplains in the Clinical Borderlands: Authority, Function, and Identity
Chaplain Samsiah Abdul-Majid, MBA, MA, BCC,  Westchester (NY) Medical Center, and Association of Muslim Chaplains (AMC); and Lance D. Laird, Th.D., Department of Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Pfahl 202

Spirituality During Lockdown: In-Person (Rare) Interviews with Nursing Home Residents
Cindy Schmidt, PhD, Director of Scholarly Activity and Faculty Development, Associate Professor, Kansas City University; Don Smith, MD, Family Medicine Residency Program, Reid Health; Loes Nauta, MSEd, BTE, CHSE, Standardized Patient Program Consultant; and Tom Huth, MD, Family Medicine Residency Program, Reid Health
Pfahl 230

Discerning the Spirits Haunting Hospice and Palliative Care
Ethan Schimmoeller, MD, MA, Resident Physician, Beacon Health System, South Bend, Indiana
Pfahl 240

Secular Clinical Ethics Needs Its Own Version of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare
Abram Brummett, PhD, Assistant Professor of Foundational Medical Studies, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
Pfahl 302

The Triumph of the Traumatic? Wounds, Memory, and the Role of Medicine
Warren Kinghorn, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center; Esther Colliflower Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology, Duke Divinity School; Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative, Duke Divinity School; and Staff Psychiatrist, Durham VA Medical Center
Pfahl 330

Trauma, Moral Injury, and Whose Moral Order?
Jesse Perillo, DePaul University
Pfahl 340

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

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Opening & Plenary Session #1 (Ballroom)

​Suffering and its Uselessness
Laurie Zoloth, PhD, University of Chicago

12:00 p.m. - 1: p.m.: Lunch (Ballroom)
"Meet the Professor" gatherings, where a more senior leader in the field welcomes others to join him/her at breakfast or lunch to discuss items pertaining to medicine and religion. Look for their tent card, and please join in. (Currently 2) - Lydia Dugdale, MD, Columbia University; Benjamin Doolittle, MD, MDiv, FAAP, FACP, Yale University School of Medicine.

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: Panels and Paper Presentations 

From Wellness to Flourishing: Reflections from Trainees in the Midst of Residency
Emmy Yang, MD, University of North Carolina Hospitals; Jenna Frush, MD, Boston Medical Center; Anna Berry, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; and Brewer Eberly, MD, Fischer Clinic, Family Physician; McDonald Agape Fellow, Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
Pfahl 140

Moral, Religious, and Spiritual Dimensions to Medical Formation
Nicholas Sparks, PhD (c), Saint Louis University (moderator); Kristin Collier, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion, University of Michigan; Kimbell Kornu, MD, PhD, Provost's Professor of Bioethics, Theology and Christian Formation, Belmont University; Andrew Michel, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Belmont University; and Morgan Wills, MD, President and CEO, Siloam Health
Pfahl 202

Still Searching for Moral Certainty? The Physician-Patient Accommodation after 40 Years
Farr Curlin, MD, Josiah Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative,  Duke University; Lydia Dugdale, MD, Columbia University; and Mark Siegler, MD, University of Chicago
Pfahl 230

The Role of the Friendship House in Medical Formation
Jackson McNeece, Theology, Medicine and Culture Fellow, Duke University; Ben Davison; Alex Furiness; Mary Elise Nolen, University of South Carolina; and Anjola Onadipe, Duke University
Pfahl 240

A Conversation with Laurie Zoloth, PhD.
Naomi Scheinerman, moderator
Pfahl 330

1:00 - 1:25 p.m.
On Suffering, Solidarity, and Sheep: Is There a Distinctive Christian Approach to (Global) Health?
C. Phifer Nicholson Jr., MD (c) and Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow, Duke University
Pfahl 302

Caring for the Soul of Hindu Newborns at their End-of-life in Catholic Hospitals
Giulia Adele Dinicola, MA and PhD Student, Duquesne University
Pfahl 340

1:25 - 1:50 p.m.
Genetically Targeted Therapy, Moral Injury and the Role of Faith
Jaime Twanow, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Section Chief of the Division of Child Neurology, and Director Epilepsy Transition Clinic, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH; Anne Connolly, MD, Division Chief, Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine; and Mary Lynn Dell, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences; Division Chief, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Virginia
Pfahl 302

Breathing Soul into the Body of Medical Poetry
Nathaniel J Brown, MD, PhD., Staff Physician and Assistant Professor, RMR-VAMC and Colorado University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology
Pfahl 340

1:50 - 2:15 p.m.
When Medicine and Religion Collide: The Influence of Christian Traditions of Sexual Purity on Attitudes Towards HPV Vaccination
Hannah Hittson, Theology, Medicine and Culture Initiative, Duke Divinity School
Pfahl 302

Medicine Heal Thyself
Danny Franke, PhD, ThM, MDiv, Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Alderson Broaddus University
​Pfahl 340

2:15 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.: Break
2:40 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.: Workshop, Panels and Paper Presentations

Race, Drugs, and the Church: Moral and Theological Considerations from a Qualitative Research Case Study
Alejandra Salemi, MTS, MPH, PhD student, Duke University; Brett McCarty, Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Assistant Professor Population Health Sciences, Duke University; Charles Lynch, Jr., MTS student, Theology, Medicine and Culture Fellow, Duke University; and Emmy Yang, MD, University of North Carolina Hospitals
Pfahl 140

Enhancing Imaginaries and Care of the Soul 
Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD, Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University; Ruth Farrell, MD, Cleveland Clinic; John Yoon, MD, University of Chicago; William Schweiker, PhD, University of Chicago; Guenter Thomas, PhD, Ruhr University Bochum (Germany); Sara Bigger, University of Chicago; and Marie Kim, University of Chicago
Pfahl 202

Whose Soul? Which Limits? Reimagining Medicine via Paul Farmer’s Praxis of Accompaniment
Alexandre Martins, PhD, Assistant Professor, Marquette University; M. Therese Lysaught, Loyola University Chicago; Julie Gunby, PhD Student, Saint Louis University; Patrick T. Smith, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Duke University; and D. Brendan Johnson, Medical Student, University of Minnesota Medical School
Pfahl 230

Cultural and Religious Humility: A Foundation for Relationships in Medicine (Workshop)
Ellery Sarosi, Medical Student, University of Michigan Medical School; and Adam Baruch, MD, Michigan Medicine
Pfahl 240

Teaching Resilience and Whole Person Care to Future Doctors: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Zane Yi, PhD, Associate Dean & Associate Professor, School of Religion, Loma Linda University; Saul Barcelo, PhD, Assistant Professor & Director, Center for Whole Person Care, School of Religion, Loma Linda University; Jessica Chen, PhD, Fuller Seminary; and Amy Hayton, MD, Associate Dean, Physician Formation & Wholeness, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Pfahl 302
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2:40 - 3:05 p.m.
Caring for Children Impacted by Parental Incarceration: Lo Cotidiano as locus Theologicus
Annika Dirkse, Medical Student, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow, Duke Divinity School
Pfahl 330

Simone Weil's "Attention" in Clinical Practice
Mark Kissler, MD, Director of Narrative Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Pfahl 340

3:05 - 3:30 p.m.
Soul Matters: Reframing LDS Abortion Policy after Dobbs
Courtney Campbell, PhD, Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture and Director of the Program in Medical Humanities, Oregon State University
Pfahl 330

Caring for Souls at the End of Life: The Limits of Medicine and Hospice Care
Joshua Snyder, Boston College
Pfahl 340

3:30 - 3:55 p.m.
A New Directive: An Ethical Analysis of the Ethical and Religious Directives and Catholic Healthcare Mission to Promote and Sustain Catholic Healthcare
Noah Dimas, PhD (c), Duquesne University
Pfahl 330
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Therapy, Cultivation, and Enhancement
Nicholas Sparks, PhD (c), Saint Louis University 
Pfahl 340

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

4:20 p.m. - 5:35 p.m.: Plenary Session (Ballroom)

Secular Medicine in the Saeculum: An Honored but Humble Servant
Farr Curlin, MD, Duke University

5:35 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.: Poster Session, Recent Authors and Reception (Foyer)

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.: Group Dinners (Sign-up at Registration)
(Currently 5) - Asma Mobin-Uddin, MD, MA, FAAP, on "Decoupling Pain and Suffering: The View from Religious Traditions"; Alex Lion, MD, on "Interprofessional Work in Medicine and Religion, Collaborating with Chaplaincy"; Kimbell Kornu, MD, PhD, on "Moral Formation in the Health Professions"; Ryan Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM, on "Orthodox Christianity and Medicine"; and Benjamin Doolittle, MD, MDiv, FAAP, FACP, "The Spiritual Life of a Healthcare Provider".
Tuesday
March 14, 2023

7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.: Services -- Catholic (Led by Father S. Enzo Del Brocco, CP) (Pfahl 202), Jewish (Pfahl 206), Muslim (Pfahl 210), Protestant (Led by Pastor Grant Eckhart) (Pfahl 230)
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7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast (Ballroom)
"Meet the Professor" gatherings, where a more senior leader in the field welcomes others to join him/her at breakfast or lunch to discuss items pertaining to medicine and religion. Look for their tent card, and please join in. (Currently 4) - Kimbell Kornu, MD, PhD, Belmont University; Ryan Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; Patrick Smith, PhD, Duke University; and Devan Stahl, PhD, Baylor University

​8:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.: Paper Presentations 

8:30 - 8:55 a.m.
Pilgrimage and Medicine: History and Health Issues for Pilgrims
Kathy Mariani, MD, MPH, University of Vermont
Pfahl 140

Public Health Engagement with Faith-Based Organizations: Toward Respectful Engagement with Beliefs and Values
Ana S. Iltis, PhD, Carlson Professor of University Studies, Professor of Philosophy, and Director, Center for Bioethics, Health and Society,  Wake Forest University
Pfahl 202

Can Artifacts be Proxies of Volition? Thomistic Analysis of Care Robots
Andre Chavez, PhD student, Saint Louis University
Pfahl 230

American Muslim Engagement with Advance Care Planning: A Cross-Sectional Study 
Raudah Yunus; Rosie Duivenbode; and Aasim Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin
Pfahl 240

The Language of the Soul: Active Listening as a Form of Spiritual Healing
Jessica Frey, MD, West Virginia University
Pfahl 302
 
The Abolition of Man in the COVID ICU
Jonathan M. McGee, RN, BSN, CCRN, ACNP(s) Duke University
Student Essay - Honorable Mention
Pfahl 330

The Psychiatrist and the Moral Life
John Peteet, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Pfahl 340

8:55 - 9:20 a.m.
Take Five: Music, Primary Care, and the Moral Limits of Time
Brewer Eberly, MD, Fischer Clinic, Family Physician; McDonald Agape Fellow, Duke Divinity School Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative
Pfahl 140

​Identifying Muslim Patients’ Religious and Spiritual Needs in the Inpatient Care Setting: A National Survey
Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, Medical Student, University of Illinois College of Medicine; Shareuf Abdelwahab, Medical Student, Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Samsiah Abdul-Majid, Chaplain, Association of Muslim Chaplains; Iman Farajallah, PsyD, Professor, Graduate Theological Union; Mohamed Hamouda, MD, University of Chicago Medical Center and Initiative on Islam and Medicine; Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP, Professor, Emergency Medicine, Bioethics and the Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin; and Natasha Piracha, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Pfahl 202

Differentiating Religion and Medicine
Michael DeJonge, PhD, University of South Florida
Pfahl 230

A House Divided: The Challenge of a Catholic Morality in a Pluralistic Society through the Lens of the Principle of Cooperation
Noah Dimas, PhD (c), Duquesne University
Student Essay - Honorable Mention
Pfahl 240

How the Jewish Concept of 'Goses' and Consideration of the Metaphysical Suffering of the Soul can Contribute to Decision Making at the End of Life
Noam Stadlan, MD, Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, NorthShore University Healthcare System Evanston, IL
Pfahl 302

​Humanity's Horizon: Transhumanism and Posthumanism
Rev. Silas Hasselbrook, Marquette University
Student Essay - Second Runner Up
Pfahl 330

Beyond the Image: Themes of "Disability" in De Pauperibus Amandis 
Kirsty Jones, PhD student, Georgetown University
Pfahl 340

9:20 - 9:45 a.m.
Cultivating Attention as a Surgical Resident: Sabbath as Resistance
Thomas “Clark” Howell, MD, MSHS, General Surgery Resident, Duke University Hospital 
Pfahl 140

End-of-Life Medical Decision-Making in the Muslim-American Community: Engagement with Advance Directives
Asma Mobin-Uddin, MD, Director, Clinical Bioethics Consultation Service, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics
Pfahl 202

Counterfactual Persons and the Wrongness of Abortion
Ryan Kulesa, PhD student and Alok Tiwari, PhD student, University of Missouri, Columbia
Pfahl 230

Credentialing Character
Andrea Thornton, PhD(c), BCC, Saint Louis University
Pfahl 240

What is the Role of the Physician in Religious Spaces at the End-of-Life?
Jayne Reines, Student, University of Arizona
Pfahl 302

Until Death Do Us Part: Physician-Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life Care
David Jordan, Student, The Ohio State University
Student Essay - First Runner Up
Pfahl 330

A Defense of Theistic Critiques of Moral Enhancement
Travis Pickell, PhD, Assistant Professor of Theology & Ethics, George Fox University
Pfahl 340

9:45 - 10:10 a.m.
Does Sedation Affect Patients’ Spiritual Experience at the End-of-Life?
Anne Dalle Ave, MD, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University; and Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD, Director Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
Pfahl 140

End-of-Life Care for Sunni Islam Patients within a Catholic Healthcare Institution
Brandon Ruiz, PhD Student, Duquesne University
Pfahl 202 

Penance and the Principle of Double Effect: The Ermenfrid Penitential and Moral Residue in Medical Dilemmas
Will Kuehnle, PhD Student, Ohio State University
Pfahl 230

Moral Distress and Community Care
Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD, Assistant Professor, Clinical Ethics, University of Minnesota; and Anuradha Gorukanti, MD, Co-Founder, Introspective Spaces
Pfahl 240

Rabbinic Responsa: Life-For-Life Questions in the Holocaust
Harvey Berman, PhD, MPH, Professor Emeritus, University at Buffalo
Pfahl 302

Provoking the Desire For Death: Hope, Despair, and the Effect of Legalized Assisted Suicide
Benjamin Parviz, Ph.D. Student, Saint Louis University
Student Essay - First Place
Pfahl 330

How a Liturgy of Whisky, Patristic Theology, and Virtue Theory can help Christian Physicians to Remember Medicine’s Purpose
Gray Kolde, MD student, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Pfahl 340

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

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Plenary Session (Ballroom)

Religious Identity and Medical Education

​Presenter:
Kristin Collier, MD, FACP, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Ryan R. Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM, The Ohio State University College of Medicine 
Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP, The Medical College of Wisconsin 


12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch (Ballroom)
​"Meet the Professor" gatherings, where a more senior leader in the field welcomes others to join him/her at breakfast or lunch to discuss items pertaining to medicine and religion. Look for their tent card, and please join in. (Currently 2) - Kristin Collier, MD, FACP, University of Michigan; and Farr Curlin, MD, Duke University

 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: Workshop, Panels and Paper Presentations

Towards Implementing an Islamic Framework in Medicine
(Workshop)
Muzzammil Ahmadzada, National Cancer Institute; and Waqas Haque, MD, NYU Langone
Pfahl 140

Hope at the Limits of Medicine
Andrea Thornton, PhD (c), BCC, Saint Louis University; Tyler Tate, MD, MA, Assistant Professor, Oregon Health and Science University; Benjamin Parviz, PhD Student, Saint Louis University; and Devan Stahl, PhD, Assistant Professor or Religion, Baylor University
Pfahl 202

Healing Souls: Medical Limits in the Latter-day Saint Religion
Courtney Campbell, PhD, Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon State University; Bradley Thornock, PhD, MPH, Rocky Vista University; and Shane Woods, University of Virginia
Pfahl 230

1:00 - 1:25 p.m.
Friendship and Healing in the Bible
Caterina Baffa, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Fellow, Duke Divinity School
Pfahl 240

Desmond Tutu of South Africa: The World's Archbishop Emeritus of Body and Soul
Mary Lynn Dell, MD, MTS, ThM, DMin, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and Division Head, Child and Family Psychiatry, University of Virginia
Pfahl 302

The Telos of Healthcare: Retrieving Aquinas’s Work on Health as a Habit
Lindsey Johnson Edwards, PhD Student, Religious Studies program, Southern Methodist University
Pfahl 330

BioButton: The Life Altering Device Through a Biopolitical Lens
Kathi Schlegel, MTS, PhD Student, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology
Pfahl 340
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1:25 - 1:50 p.m.
Ontological Nightfall: Interspecies Chimeras as Secular Blasphemy
Martin Fitzgerald, The Ohio State University
Pfahl 240

Characterizing Moral Distress and Moral Injury among Healthcare Chaplains
Rigo Azanwi,MDiv, is a Roman Catholic Capuchin Franciscan Priest, Saint Joseph Church, York, Pennsylvania and a Master in Bioethics (MBE) Student, Harvard Medical School 
Pfahl 302

Philoptochias (“Love of the Poor”): The Forgotten Core of Christian Virtue Ethics
D. Brendan Johnson, MTS, Medical Student, University of Minnesota Medical School
Pfahl 330

How Do We Pray When There is No Cure? Disability and an Alternative Vision of Health and Wholeness
Sarah Catherine Carter, Theology, Medicine and Culture Fellow, Duke Divinity School
Pfahl 340

1:50 - 2:15 p.m.
A Collectivist Approach to Flourishing in Old Age
Jordan DeVeaux, Duke University
Pfahl 240

We Must Express Our Faith! The Spiritual Calling of Medicine in End-of-Life Care
Phylliss Chappell, MD, MS, FAAHPM, Houston Methodist Hospital; Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine; Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Houston Methodist Academic Institute; Assistant Clinical Member, Houston Methodist Research Institute; and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Texas A&M College of Medicine
Pfahl 302

The Existential Crisis in Medicine: Le Regard, Körper, and Leiben
Ian Barclay, Graduate Student, Yale University; and Benjamin R. Doolittle, MD, MDiv, FAAP, FACP, Professor, Internal Medicine & Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, Program Director, Combined Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Residency Program
Medical Director, Yale Medicine-Pediatrics Practice
Pfahl 330
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On Dying Well: Narrative Remedies for Social Wounds
Ashley Yukihiro, MA, PhD Student, Saint Louis University
Pfahl 340

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


2:40 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.: Workshop, Panels and Paper Presentations

Human Flourishing in the Medical Profession
Lily Abadal, PhD, University of South Florida; Rafael Flores, PhD (c) and William Kuehnle, PhD (c), The Ohio State University
Pfahl 140

The Need for Relationship in Healing Addiction: Moving Beyond Medicine
Andrea Clements, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, Associate Director of Research Design and Implementation, ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute and co-founder and President, Uplift Appalachia; Natalie Cyphers, PhD, Associate Professor, DeSales University; Christopher Cook, Fellow and Professor Emeritus, The Wolfson Research Institute for Wellbeing, Durham University; and Tanner Clements, Secretary/Treasurer & Media Director, Uplift Appalachia
Pfahl 202

VitalForce: An EveryDay Readiness Plan for Spiritual and Emotional Support (Workshop)
Linda Golding, BCC, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Pfahl 230

“I’m No Hero:” Hearing and Healing Moral Distress as Moral Communities
Jacquelyn Harootunian-Cutts, PhD Student, Saint Louis University; Samuel Deters, MA, PhD(c), Saint Louis University; Kimbell Kornu, MD, PhD, Provost's Professor of Bioethics, Theology and Christian Formation, Belmont University; and 
Julie Gunby, CNM, MSN, MTS, PhD Student, Saint Louis University 
Pfahl 240

Engaging the Contours of Medicine’s Ethos and Human Rights: By the Power to Choose or the Person Who Chooses?
Matthew Vest, PhD, The Ohio State University; Jeffrey Bishop, MD, PhD, Saint Louis University; and Ryan Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Pfahl 330​


2:40 - 3:05 p.m.
The Denial of Death and the Eschaton
Jordan Bauer, RN MS CHPN, PhD Student, Saint Louis University
Pfahl 302

3:05 - 3:30 p.m.
“You Will Not Die...You Will Be Like God" – Fasting & the Search for Everlasting Life
Victoria Yunez Behm, MS, MTS, CNS, LDN, Preceptor, Duke Divinity School & Adjunct Faculty, Nutrition and Herbal Medicine, Maryland University of Integrative Health
Pfahl 302

3:30 - 3:55 p.m.
The Body-Informed Soul: Medicine and the Ensouled Person
Rev. Silas Hasselbrook, Marquette University
Pfahl 302
​4:00 p.m.: Conference Ends