2019 Conference Schedule (As of January 22, 2019)
Friday
March 29, 2019 |
7:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.: Registration/Information (Terminal Atrium A, Second Floor)9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Pre-Conference ActivitiesCathedral Basilica of St. Louis Tour (9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
This tour will bring attendees to a culturally significant sacred site near the hotel in St. Louis. At the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, we will be joined by a guide who will discuss the history, architecture, and vision for the space and who will field questions from participants. Additionally, a speaker will discuss the its significance in terms of health and healing. A bus/van will leave the hotel at 9:30 a.m. The tour will include lunch. Participants will return to the hotel in time for the start of the conference. Workshops 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. (I and II) and 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. (III and IV) I. Deep Listening: Making the Unconscious Conscious During Difficult Decision Making (Burlington Route) Led by Mary Browne, MSW, M. Div., BCC, ACPE Certified Educator, Director Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy Services, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital and Faculty of Clinical Pastoral Education, Memorial Hermann Health System, and Emily Owen, M.Div., Staff Chaplain, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, Houston, Texas. II. Designing A Well-Balanced Life: A Workshop for Leaders (Frisco) Led by Benjamin Doolittle, M.D., M.Div., Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Yale University. III. They Named Her "Miracle": Understanding and Responding to the Hope for Miracles in Pediatric Medicine (Burlington Route) Led by Trevor Bibler, Ph.D., MTS, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX and Alex Lion, DO, MPH, Indiana University School of Medicine, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology. IV. When Medicine and Religion Meet at the Bedside of Critically Ill Cancer Patients, Do They Run Parallel, Intersect or Crash with Each Other? (Frisco) Led by Susan Gaeta, M.D., FACP, Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Emily Owen, M.Div., Staff Chaplain, Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital, Houston, Texas; and Peggy Determeyer, Ph.D., McGee Fellow in Bioethics and Aging, Hope and Healing Center, Houston, TX. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Lunch (on your own) 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Muslim Juma/Friday Prayers (Jeffersonian)
1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.: CONFERENCE BEGINS - Parallel SessionsPapers
(1:00 p.m. - 1:25 p.m.) Proselytizing Positivism: Deconstructing the Shaming of Spirituality in Western Medicine and the Case for Medical School Chaplaincy (Colorado Eagle) Religion’s Influence in Modern Medical Charity: A Qualitative Study on the Motivations of Healthcare Volunteers at a Free Medical Clinic (Texas Special) Justice in Hospice & Palliative Care: The Ethical Obligation to Expand Access to Holistic Care (Wabash Cannonball) Time In The Clinical Context: How Monastic Hospitals Re-inform The Clock (Frisco) (1:25 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.) Jan Patočka on Myth: Observations on the Foundations of Religious Belief and Medical Decision Making (Colorado Eagle) "It Is Right and Just": Liturgy and Catholic Health Care Ethics (Texas Special) Gender by Dasein? A Heideggerian Critique of Suzanne Kessler and the Medical Management of Children Born with Disorders of Sexual Development (Frisco) (1:50 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.) Secular Exemptions: Between Religious Freedom and Patient Choice (Colorado Eagle) Undermining the Cartesian Foundations of Modern Medicine: Descartes, Thomas Aquinas, and the Human Body (Texas Special) Learning to Bear the Pain of Others: Biomedical and Theological Considerations of Vicarious Suffering Among Medical Trainees (Wabash Cannonball) The Role of Religion in Medical Education (Frisco) Panel The National Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health: Investigating the Biological Mechanism through which Spirituality Affects Health across Diverse Religious, Racial, and Ethnic Communities (Burlington Route) Workshop (1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.) Scholarly Publishing in a New Era (Missouri Pacific) 2:15 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. Break2:40 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.: Welcome and Plenary One (Ballroom) Welcome --
Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div., Dana Farber Cancer Institute, CMR Conference Co-Chair Jeffrey Bishop, M.D.,Ph.D., St. Louis University, CMR Conference Co-Chair "Philosophical Foundations of Medicine and Religion" by Daniel Sulmasy, M.D., Senior Research Scholar, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University Respondents: Kimbell Kornu, MD, PhD, Asst. Professor of Palliative Medicine and Health Care Ethics, St. Louis University and Ruaim Muaygil, MBBS, MBE, Graduate Student, Albert Gnaegi Center for Healthcare Ethics, St. Louis University 4:10 p.m. - 4:35 p.m.: Break4:35 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.: Parallel SessionsPapers
(4:15 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.) The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Conceptualizing Reproductive Loss in Gestational Surrogacy (Colorado Eagle) A Response-Ability to Fatalism, Fanaticism, and Tranquilization--What's a Doctor to Do? Case Studies and Conversation with Viktor Frankl’s The Doctor and the Soul (Texas Special) The Distinct Visions of Death in Secular and Christian Arts of Dying (Burlington Route) Human-on-a-Chip: Medical Breakthrough or a Violation of Human Dignity? (Frisco) The Magical Foundation of Empirical Studies of the Efficacy of Intercessory Paper (Missouri Pacific) (4:40 p.m. - 5:05 p.m.) Spirituality: The Story of Hermannus Contractus (Colorado Eagle) Begotten Not Made: Monogenḗs, Birth and Ectogensis - A Theo-Ethical Appraisal (Texas Special) “A Picture Held Us Captive”: Using Wittgenstein to Reimagine Disability and “Dis-ease” (Wabash Cannonball) Assessing Denver Religious Leaders' Attitudes, Practices, and Congregational Experiences with Childhood Vaccines (Burlington Route) The Trends of Nkukut in Health Issues Among the Annang People of Nigeria (Frisco) A Naturalized Approach to Reconciling Religion and Medicine (Missouri Pacific) (5:05 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.) Evidence Based Medicine in an Era of Post-Truth and Alternative Facts (Colorado Eagle) "Suffer the Little Children": Integrating Medical and Theological Education for the Care of Pediatric Oncology Patients (Texas Special) The Closing of the Medical Mind: How Medical Education Has Failed Patients and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Medical Students (Wabash Cannonball) Method in Theology and Oncology: Bernard Lonergan's Cognitional Theory and the Foundations of Medicine and Religion (Burlington Route) A "Good Death": Perspectives of Muslim Patients and Health Care Providers (Frisco) Why Should Medicine Care About Religion? An Argument Concerning Foundations (Missouri Pacific) (5:30 p.m. - 5:55 p.m.) The Spiritual Exercises and Professional Identity Formation in Medical Education (Colorado Eagle) Impact of Small Group Reflection Sessions in Junior and Senior Medical Students (Texas Special) Christian Bioethics and Academic Practice in Russia (Burlington Route) Being Moved: Maximus on Gregory's Love for Lepers (Wabash Cannonball) The Pastoral Role of the Physician (Frisco) Disability and the Need for Theological Anthropology in Medicine (Missouri Pacific) 5:55 - 6:30 p.m. Break
6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Dinner Discussions at Area Restaurants (Sign-up at the Registration/Information Table)6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.: Shabbat Dinner (Pre-registration required.) |
12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. Concluding Comments
Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div., Dana Farber Cancer Institute, CMR Conference Co-Chair
Jeffrey Bishop, M.D., St. Louis University, CMR Conference Co-Chair
Farr Curlin, M.D., Duke University
Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div., Dana Farber Cancer Institute, CMR Conference Co-Chair
Jeffrey Bishop, M.D., St. Louis University, CMR Conference Co-Chair
Farr Curlin, M.D., Duke University
*Jewish and Muslim prayer rooms will be available for use throughout the conference.
**Schedule is subject to change