2026 CMR Posters
The Afterlife of Saint Sebastian: Plague Saint Legends and the Heroics of Caregiving Following the Black Death
Ellie Rose Mattoon, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Natalie Thornton, Northeast Ohio Medical University
Arts & Faith: Minimizing Vicarious Trauma with Artistic Expressions & Faith-Sharing
Rosalinda R. Jimenez, EdD, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC (TTUHSC-SON); Regina Baronia, MD, M.Ed. (TTUHSC-SOM).; Tobias Kroll, PhD (TTUHSC-Speech & Language); Amy Faltinek (TTUHSC-Preston Smith Library), MLS; Evangeline J. Jimenez, MFA, PhD (NAU- Department of Theatre)
Assessing the Impact of Religiously Informed Care Education on Medical Trainees and Faculty
Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Mohammad Faizaan, Audrey Goldstein, Dayashree Baskaran, and Emma Theisen, Rush University Medical Center
Assessing Religious Inclusivity at a Major Urban Medical Center in the Midwest: Perspectives of Muslim Healthcare Trainees, Faculty, and Staff
Mohammad Faizaan, Yousuf Parekh, Dayashree Baskaran, Emma Theisen, Audrey Goldstein, Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Medical Center
Assessment of Clinical Approaches to Hyper-Religiosity versus Religious Belief Systems in Psychiatric Patients: A Literature Review
Shveta Abraham, UT Health Houston
Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Beliefs: Exploring a Case of Emergent Exploratory Laparotomy Due to Anemia in a Jehovah’s Witness Patient
Elise Winn, Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, and Alefiya Al-Qamari, MD, Rush University
Changes in Empathy in Third-Year Medical Students Participating in Whole-Person and Spiritual Care Curricula: A Single-Institution Study
Jeanie Kim, Quinlan Morrow, and Amy Hayton, MD, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Clinical Struggles of Implementing Religiously and Spiritually Informed Care into the U.S. MD Curriculum
Emma Theisen, Mohammad Faizaan, Dayashree Baskaran, and Audrey Goldstein, Rush Medical College; and Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Medical Center
“A Doctor will Never Heal your Spirit”: Spirituality and Frontline Care Preferences among Older Hispanic Residents of South Texas
Stephen Pan and Joelia Hernandez, University of Texas at San Antonio
Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Jerron Chan, Harvard Divinity School, Anais Chia, Imperial College London, and Leela Lotfi, Wesleyan University
Exploring the Complexity of End-of-Life Decision Making in a Muslim Patient
Yaseen Fahmy, Ummekulsum Abdulbaseer, Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Medical Center
Exploring the Impact of Spiritual Autonomy in Aggressive Lymphoma
Emma Theisen, Rush Medical College, and Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Health Center
Exploring the Intersection of Faith, Empathy, and Healthcare Trust in the Experience of Informal Caregivers
Julie Yonker, PhD, Meral Moawad, Mesa Tshura, Elizabeth Yuniwo, Jamie Lee, and Audrey Braak, Calvin University
Forming Healers: A Longitudinal Model for Empathy, Perspective-Taking, and Spiritual Growth in Medical Education
Ashley Kempf, Joanne Lee, Amy Hayton, MD, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and Zane Yi, PhD, Loma Linda University
From Paternalism to Prophecy: The Illusion of Certainty in Evidence-Based Medicine
David Parkinson and Adam Baruch, MD, The University of Michigan Medical School
Integrating the FICA Tool Into Objective Structured Clinical Examinations for End-of-Life Care Training: A Mixed-Methods Study of Medical Student Learning
Huma Manjra, BA, Marla Abrolat, MD, and Nicole Lawson, MD, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Meta-analysis of Spirituality and Health Related Outcomes in Cancer Patients
Muhammad Mohsin Fareed, MD, West Virginia University, Adeel Riaz MD, Rutgers University, Mutahar Ali Tunio, MBBS, FRCR, Swansea Bay University Health Board
Prophets on the Wards
Hope Gehle, MD, MTS, Virginia Mason Medical Center
Recruiting Muslim Americans for Health Interventions Through Mosques: Lessons Learned
Salma Saifuddin, Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine and Aasim Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP, Medical College of Wisconsin
Redacted or Otherwise: Assessing Requests for Religious Exemptions to the COVID-19 Vaccine
Isabel Perozek, Yale Divinity School
Reflective Introspection and Healing: Naikan Therapy at the Intersection of Medicine and Religion
Trevor Staab, University of Pittsburgh
Religiosity and Help-Seeking in Muslim Young Adults: Integrating Islamic Spiritual Meditative Practices in Mental Health Care
Lina Chihoub, BS, University of Pennsylvania, Malaz Mohamad, MA, MBA, Neshwa B. Rajeh, MPH, and Rania Awaad, MD, Stanford University Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab
Renewing the Mind: Exploring the Biblical Blueprint for the Neuroscience of Brain Health
Randall John Wright, Neuroscience Institute of Houston
Restoring Flow: Hijama—The Forgotten Hippocratic Medicinal Art and the Prophetic Framework for Healing
Saima Khawaja, MD, The Whole List Doc, Columbus, OH
Sitting with the Sacred: Exploring Sacred Moments Among Senior Medical Students
Kirin Saint, Andrew Mohama, and Natalia Caprile, Rush University Medical Center, Michael F. Barton, University of Chicago and Viju John, David S. Burstein, and George Fitchett, Rush University Medical Center
Teaching Medical Students to Think (and Maybe Speak) Prophetically
Jessica N. Wise, PhD, MPH, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, UTHealth, Houston
"To die, or not to die, that is the question": Christian Tradition's Prophetic Voice in the Field of Longevity Medicine
Lily Weir, Duke Divinity School and Mikaela Kim, The University of Texas Medical Branch Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities
The Unseen Presence of Healing: How Clinicians’ Inner States Inform Patient Care
Fatima Alemam, Hamida Mitha, and Nusaybah Benhamou, Zaytuna College, and Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Medical Center
Waiting for Gabriel: Role of Spirituality in Coping of Unexplained Infertility
Liaqat Ali, MD, and Atiya Munir, Institute of Kidney Diseases, Peshawar, Pakistan
Ellie Rose Mattoon, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Natalie Thornton, Northeast Ohio Medical University
Arts & Faith: Minimizing Vicarious Trauma with Artistic Expressions & Faith-Sharing
Rosalinda R. Jimenez, EdD, APRN, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC (TTUHSC-SON); Regina Baronia, MD, M.Ed. (TTUHSC-SOM).; Tobias Kroll, PhD (TTUHSC-Speech & Language); Amy Faltinek (TTUHSC-Preston Smith Library), MLS; Evangeline J. Jimenez, MFA, PhD (NAU- Department of Theatre)
Assessing the Impact of Religiously Informed Care Education on Medical Trainees and Faculty
Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Mohammad Faizaan, Audrey Goldstein, Dayashree Baskaran, and Emma Theisen, Rush University Medical Center
Assessing Religious Inclusivity at a Major Urban Medical Center in the Midwest: Perspectives of Muslim Healthcare Trainees, Faculty, and Staff
Mohammad Faizaan, Yousuf Parekh, Dayashree Baskaran, Emma Theisen, Audrey Goldstein, Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Medical Center
Assessment of Clinical Approaches to Hyper-Religiosity versus Religious Belief Systems in Psychiatric Patients: A Literature Review
Shveta Abraham, UT Health Houston
Blood, Sweat, Tears, and Beliefs: Exploring a Case of Emergent Exploratory Laparotomy Due to Anemia in a Jehovah’s Witness Patient
Elise Winn, Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, and Alefiya Al-Qamari, MD, Rush University
Changes in Empathy in Third-Year Medical Students Participating in Whole-Person and Spiritual Care Curricula: A Single-Institution Study
Jeanie Kim, Quinlan Morrow, and Amy Hayton, MD, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Clinical Struggles of Implementing Religiously and Spiritually Informed Care into the U.S. MD Curriculum
Emma Theisen, Mohammad Faizaan, Dayashree Baskaran, and Audrey Goldstein, Rush Medical College; and Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Medical Center
“A Doctor will Never Heal your Spirit”: Spirituality and Frontline Care Preferences among Older Hispanic Residents of South Texas
Stephen Pan and Joelia Hernandez, University of Texas at San Antonio
Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Jerron Chan, Harvard Divinity School, Anais Chia, Imperial College London, and Leela Lotfi, Wesleyan University
Exploring the Complexity of End-of-Life Decision Making in a Muslim Patient
Yaseen Fahmy, Ummekulsum Abdulbaseer, Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Medical Center
Exploring the Impact of Spiritual Autonomy in Aggressive Lymphoma
Emma Theisen, Rush Medical College, and Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Health Center
Exploring the Intersection of Faith, Empathy, and Healthcare Trust in the Experience of Informal Caregivers
Julie Yonker, PhD, Meral Moawad, Mesa Tshura, Elizabeth Yuniwo, Jamie Lee, and Audrey Braak, Calvin University
Forming Healers: A Longitudinal Model for Empathy, Perspective-Taking, and Spiritual Growth in Medical Education
Ashley Kempf, Joanne Lee, Amy Hayton, MD, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and Zane Yi, PhD, Loma Linda University
From Paternalism to Prophecy: The Illusion of Certainty in Evidence-Based Medicine
David Parkinson and Adam Baruch, MD, The University of Michigan Medical School
Integrating the FICA Tool Into Objective Structured Clinical Examinations for End-of-Life Care Training: A Mixed-Methods Study of Medical Student Learning
Huma Manjra, BA, Marla Abrolat, MD, and Nicole Lawson, MD, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
Meta-analysis of Spirituality and Health Related Outcomes in Cancer Patients
Muhammad Mohsin Fareed, MD, West Virginia University, Adeel Riaz MD, Rutgers University, Mutahar Ali Tunio, MBBS, FRCR, Swansea Bay University Health Board
Prophets on the Wards
Hope Gehle, MD, MTS, Virginia Mason Medical Center
Recruiting Muslim Americans for Health Interventions Through Mosques: Lessons Learned
Salma Saifuddin, Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine and Aasim Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP, Medical College of Wisconsin
Redacted or Otherwise: Assessing Requests for Religious Exemptions to the COVID-19 Vaccine
Isabel Perozek, Yale Divinity School
Reflective Introspection and Healing: Naikan Therapy at the Intersection of Medicine and Religion
Trevor Staab, University of Pittsburgh
Religiosity and Help-Seeking in Muslim Young Adults: Integrating Islamic Spiritual Meditative Practices in Mental Health Care
Lina Chihoub, BS, University of Pennsylvania, Malaz Mohamad, MA, MBA, Neshwa B. Rajeh, MPH, and Rania Awaad, MD, Stanford University Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab
Renewing the Mind: Exploring the Biblical Blueprint for the Neuroscience of Brain Health
Randall John Wright, Neuroscience Institute of Houston
Restoring Flow: Hijama—The Forgotten Hippocratic Medicinal Art and the Prophetic Framework for Healing
Saima Khawaja, MD, The Whole List Doc, Columbus, OH
Sitting with the Sacred: Exploring Sacred Moments Among Senior Medical Students
Kirin Saint, Andrew Mohama, and Natalia Caprile, Rush University Medical Center, Michael F. Barton, University of Chicago and Viju John, David S. Burstein, and George Fitchett, Rush University Medical Center
Teaching Medical Students to Think (and Maybe Speak) Prophetically
Jessica N. Wise, PhD, MPH, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, UTHealth, Houston
"To die, or not to die, that is the question": Christian Tradition's Prophetic Voice in the Field of Longevity Medicine
Lily Weir, Duke Divinity School and Mikaela Kim, The University of Texas Medical Branch Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities
The Unseen Presence of Healing: How Clinicians’ Inner States Inform Patient Care
Fatima Alemam, Hamida Mitha, and Nusaybah Benhamou, Zaytuna College, and Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, MD, Rush University Medical Center
Waiting for Gabriel: Role of Spirituality in Coping of Unexplained Infertility
Liaqat Ali, MD, and Atiya Munir, Institute of Kidney Diseases, Peshawar, Pakistan