Because You Were Strangers: Religious and Spiritual Perspectives on Caring for Refugees
Ashok Gurung, MD Candidate, St. George's University. MS Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh.
Naghmeh Rowhani, MD, MPH, Medical Director San Ysidro Health, Chula Vista, CA. Clinical Faculty, Scripps Family Medicine Residency
Jonathan Weinkle, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Squirrel Hill Health Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Clinical Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

If we are to speak of care on the margins, we must speak of caring for refugees, people so marginalized they literally have nowhere to call home. Yet many in the health professions feel called specifically to provide care for exactly this group of people. In this session, we will explore that calling from the perspective of a Jewish physician who feels religiously bound to do this work, a Baha'i physician who relates her work to both her family experience and her moral compass, and a medical student from the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugee community who considers the interplay between the spiritual dimensions of displacement and the health of the individual.