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Conference on Medicine and Religion

2020 Conference Schedule  (As of February 21, 2020)  


Monday,
March 23, 2020

Conference Begins

7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Registration/Information  

7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Catholic Mass & Protestant Worship 

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast  

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

8:30 - 8:55 a.m.
The Concept of Qi in Tai Chi and Qigong: Pseudoscientific, But So What?  
George Bao, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

Re-examining Depressive Realism in Christian Concepts of Suffering 
Samantha Yates, BS in Biochemistry, Duke Divinity School

We Are Not Good Samaritans: A Familiar Tale Re-visited 
Zane Yi, PhD, Associate Professor, Loma Linda University


Imagining a Future for Religious Bioethics 
Bharat Ranganathan, PhD, Beamer-Schneider SAGES Fellow in Ethics, Case Western Reserve University

Accountability as a Virtue in Mental Health and Human Flourishing 
John Peteet, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Letting Go: the Good Death and Ethics of Dying Well 
Roberto Dell'Oro, PhD, Director and Professor, Bioethics Institute Loyola Marymount University

8:55 - 9:20 a.m.
The Role of Religiosity/Spirituality and Medical Socialization in Medical Student Moral Foundations
Aaron Franzen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hope College

Assessing the Spiritual Needs of Patients Awaiting Heart Transplantation 
Elie Ellenberg, BA, PI, University of Michigan

A Call for the Return of Compassion in Medicine
Anita Chang, DO, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Ohio State University

Commoditizing Christianity with Women’s Bodies: From an Analysis of Japanese Discourse of Western Surrogate Mothers
Yoshie Yanagihara, PhD, Assistant Professor, Tokyo Denki University

Humble Thyself: The Imitation of Christ in Medical Missions
Danielle Ellis, Medical Student, Duke Divinity School

Catholic Eucharistic Anamnesis, Jewish Remembrance of Liberation at Pesach, and the Healing of First Responders Suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Joel Warden, PhD, Catholic Scholar in Residence, St. Francis College, Brooklyn

Beyond Autonomy: Engaging a Theological Anthropology of Childhood for Pediatric Bioethics and Clinical Practice
Jessica Bratt Carle, PhD, MDiv, Chaplain, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI

9:20 - 9:45 a.m.
A Multi-Site Study of Christian-Based Spiritually Integrated psychotherapy: Focus on East Asian Canadians
Wai Lun Alan Fung, MD, ScD, Research Professor, Tyndale University College and University of Toronto

New Secular Laws on Conscientious Objection, Physician Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia
Kevin Powell, MD, PhD 

Gratitude: Intrinsic Virtue or Self-Help Intervention? Paradoxical Effects of Expressing Gratitude to Help Oneself
David Cregg, MA, Doctoral Student, The Ohio State University

True to Tradition? A Qualitative Study of Clergy Attitudes toward Vaccine Advocacy
Joshua Williams, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics / General Pediatrician, University of Colorado School of Medicine / Denver Health Medical Center

Locating Health in the Human Subject: How the Philosophical Anthropology of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas can help both Patients and Doctors
Fr. Raymund Snyder, OP, STB/MDiv and PhL, Adjunct Lecturer, Pontifical College Josephinum

The Importance of Returning to an Evaluation of the Tradition of Medicine in the Age of CRISPR-Cas9
Ashlyn Stackhouse, BS in Biology, TMC Fellowship at Duke Divinity

The Garden, the Tree and the Gift of Obedience: A Christian Perspective on the Proper Expression and Limits of Autonomy
Nicole Shirilla, MD, Assistant professor/Palliative Medicine Physician and Clinical Ethics Consultant, Ohio State University Medical Center

9:45 - 10:10 a.m.
Conflict or Cooperation?: Institutional Responses to the Opioid Crisis and the Role of Religious Communities
Brett McCarty, ThD, Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Instructor in Population Health Sciences, Duke University

Resurrecting the 'Nature of a Child' : Hippocrates, Mark 5:20, and the Anatomical Renderings of Frederik Ruysch
Jessica Shand, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center

"A Drug of Such Damn'd Nature": Trust, Education and the Hippocratic Oath in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and All's Well that Ends Well.
Brian Quaranta, MD, MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center

The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Management of Chronic Illness
John Graham, MD, M., DMin, President/CEO, Institute for Spirituality and Health

Developing a Curricular Mapping Evaluation of Altruism, Compassion, and Empathy (ACE) in the preclinical years at a Southern School of Medicine
Janet Armitage, PhD, Associate Professor, St. Mary's University; and Sue P. Nash, PhD, St. Mary's University

Martin Buber's Religious Humanism as an Ethical Basis for Secular Medical Practice
Alan Astrow, MD, Chief, Medical Oncology and Hematology, New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College

The Purpose of Doubt: What Religion Teaches Us About Its Place In Medicine
Jessica Frey, MD, Resident Physician, West Virginia University

10:10 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. - Break

10:35 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. - Parallel Sessions (Papers, Panels and a Workshop)

10:35 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Papers)
The Body of Christ: Technology and Communities Maintaining Personhood in ALS
Philip Choi, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan

Liturgies and Tradition in Medicine: Serving a Diverse World
Nathaniel Brown, MD, PhD, Staff Physician & Senior Instructor, Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC & University of Colorado SOM

11:00 - 11:25 a.m. (Papers)
The "Russian Mosaic" in the Medical Ethical Tradition: Hippocratic, Orthodox, Soviet or Global?
Nataliya Shok, Dr. Sc.(History), M.A.(Philosophy), Professor, Department of Social and Humanitarian Science, Privolzhsky Research Medical University Of The Ministry Of Health Of Russian Federation

The Lens of Communal Health in Liberation Theology and Liberation Psychology
Jesse Perillo, PhD, Part-time Lecturer, DePaul University

11:25 - 11:50 a.m. (Papers)
The Art of Dying in the 21st Century
Courtney Campbell, PhD, Hundere Professor of Religion and Culture, Oregon State University

Addressing Spiritual Concerns in the Emergency Department
Jennifer Frush, MD Candidate (2021), MTS Candidate (2020), Duke University

10:35 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (Panels)
Cultivating Faithful Imagination for Healthcare: Christian Tradition and the Formation of Medical Practitioners
Moderator: Therese Lysaught
Panelists: Brett McCarty, ThD, Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Instructor in Population Health Sciences, Duke University; Warren Kinghorn, Duke University;  Danielle Ellis, Duke University ; and Ben Frush, Vanderbilt University.

Resources for Healing Today and Foundations for Curing Tomorrow: What Can We Learn from the Islamic Tradition?
Moderator: Ahsan Arozullah, MD, MPH, Member, Board of Directors, Darul Qasim Institute
Panelists: Yasir N. Akhtar, MD, North Knoxville Medical Center, Tennova Heart Institute; Omar Hussain, DO, Clinical Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; Akbar M. Ali, MD, Attending Physician, Division of Hospital Medicine, NorthShore University Health System; and Umar M. Shakur, DO, Darul Qasim Institute

Rooted Medicine: Deepening Medical Student's Education through Theological Studies
Moderator: Zane Yi, PhD Loma Linda School of Religion Program Director, MA Religion & Society Associate Professor, Theology Area
Panelists: Landon Sayler, MA Curriculum and Instruction, MA Religion and Society, Loma Linda University;  Jonathon Goorhuis, MA Religion and Society, Loma Linda University; Andrew Krause; and Kristoff Foster

The Great Ambiguity of “Medicine”: Science? Art? Magic? Technique? Mechanics? Guild? Profession? Other?…or All?!
Moderator: Matthew Vest, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Ohio State University, Division of Bioethics
Panelists: Autumn Ridenour, PhD, Assistant Professor, Religious and Theological Studies, Merrimack College;  Nicole Shriller, MD, Palliative Care, Ohio State University; and  Ethan Schimmoeller, MS-4, U of Cincinnati College of Medicine

10:35 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. (Workshop)
Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through Each of the 4 Main Belief Systems
Kelvin Chin, Juris Doctorate, Masters Degree, Executive Director, Overcoming the Fear of Death Foundation
11:50 a.m. - 1:10 p.m. - Lunch, Welcome and Plenary One  (Ballroom) -- “Living in the Wounds of Secularity: Christian Musings on Healing Medicine’s Secular/Religious Divide”   Jeffrey P. Bishop, MD, PhD, Professor of Philosophy,
Professor of Theological Studies, Tenet Endowed Chair in Health Care Ethics
Saint Louis University
​
2020 Englehardt Award Winner -  Presented by The Foundation for Bioethics and Ohio State University's Center for Bioethics
​1:10 p.m. - 2:25 p.m. - Parallel Sessions  (Papers, a Panel and a Workshop)
1:10 - 1:35 p.m. (Papers)
Medicine and the Grief Tradition: Augustine and Stoic Philosophy
Jane Abbottsmith, MD/PhD Program, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Religious Studies
Student Essay, Honorable Mention


Clinical Trials of Gene Editing Therapeutics Using CRISPR Technology: Halachic Considerations and Guidelines
Frank Lieberman, MD, Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Medical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Created in the Image of G-d: Depicting G-d in a World of Neuroimaging
Jessica Frey, MD, Resident Physician, West Virginia University

“And He Laid His Hands on Her:” A Theological Presentation of Osteopathic Medicine
Michael Davis, Medical Student, Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine

Faithful Improvisation and Dissonance: On Life as Embodied Music
Tyler Couch, Medical Student, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

1:35 - 2:00 p.m. (Papers)
Sharing is Caring: Healthcare Sharing Ministries and the Christianization of Healthcare in the United States
David Streed, Master in Theological Studies Candidate, Harvard Divinity School
Student Essay, Honorable Mention


Jewish Medical Ethics and the Power of Parable
Ezra Gabbay, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine

The Expectations of Religious Patients: What Scholars Say They Expect vs. What they Actually Expect
Nicholas Colgrove, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Wake Forest University

Expanding the Tradition: Global Public Health as Priority for the Catholic Church’s Healthcare Ministry
Joshua Snyder, PhD, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Theology, Boston College

Applying the Grammar of Assent to Address Greenblum and Hubbard’s ‘Public Reason’ Argument
Paul Riffon, MA Theology, PhD Student, St. Louis University

2:00 - 2:25 p.m. (Papers)
New York’s Reproductive Health Act: Empowering the Exercise of the Fundamental Right to Women’s Health?
Addison Tenorio, Health Care Ethics MA/Ph.D. Candidate, St. Louis University
Student Essay, Honorable Mention


God, Please; Heal Her, Please.
Adam Baruch, MD, Department of Psychiatry; Associate Director of University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion, University of Michigan

The Nature of Death and the Death of Nature: The Limit Experience of Eva Saulitis
Aaron Kerr, PhD, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gannon University College of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences

Trading Traditions of Cartesian Dualism for Pauline Anthropology in Critical Care: Understanding and Mitigating Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS)
Anna Berry, Medical Student; Theology, Medicine and Culture Fellow, Baylor College of Medicine; Duke Divinity School

The Prospect of a Christian Post-Liberal Biopolitics
Kyle Karches, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University

1:10 - 2:25 p.m. (Panel)
Conscientious Refusals in Health Care
Panelists: Jason Eberl, PhD, Director and Professor of Health Care Ethics, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University; Abram Brummett, Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College; and Lisa Fullam, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University

1:10 - 2:25 p.m. (Workshop)
Closing a Medical and Spiritual “Gap of Care” for Patients Who Have Near-Death Experiences
Diane Corcoran, Ph.D., Retired US Army Col. and RN, and President of IANDS, International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) ; Dr. Ingrid Honkala, Marine Biologist, Oceanographer, Master Scuba Diver, NASA and Navy Scientist, international lecturer, childhood near-death and spiritual transformative experiencer (NDEr and STEr);  Lilia Samoilo has been a mental health and spiritual counselor for thirty-five years. She is a medical and spiritual intuitive, an international veteran NDE advocate/NDE educator, a co-associate of Dr. Corcoran’s Vet NDE Project, and a contributor for the Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) in their NDE Research Project; and  Reverend Peter Baldwin Panagore, MDiv, Yale Divinity School, had his first near-death experience (NDE) in March of 1981, at twenty-one years old, while ice climbing. 
2:25 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. - Break

2:50 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. - Parallel Sessions (Papers and Panels)

2:50 - 3:15 p.m. (Papers)
When the Advance Directive is More Human Than the Patient: Rethinking Capacity in Eating and Drinking Decisions
Jordan Mason, Joint PhD in Theology and Health Care Ethics Candidate, Saint Louis University
Student Essay, Runner-Up

Racial Attitudes and Support for the Affordable Care Act among U.S. Protestants
Berkeley Franz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Community-based Health, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Physician-Patient Disclosure: Transitioning from Truth to Trust
Karl Wallenkampf, Medical Student, MA in Bioethics Student, Loma Linda University School of Medicine & School of Religion

Transcendent Consciousness Research- Near-Death vs. Spiritual Contemplative Experiences
Robert Hesse, PhD, Adjunct Professor & Faculty, University of St. Thomas & Institute for Spirituality and Health

The Religious and the Secular: Wall of Separation?
Jonathan Imber, PhD, Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College

3:15 - 3:40 p.m. (Papers)
“What Do You Hope For?” How A Theological Understanding of Hope Can Improve End-of-Life Care
Andrea Thornton, Ph.D. in Theology and Health Care Ethics Candidate, Saint Louis University
Student Essay Award Winner

Hippocratic Ethics and Hindu Dharma: Conflict and Recovery
Deepak Sarma, PhD, Philosophy of Religion, Professor of South Asian Religions/ Professor of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University

Hippocratic Oath: past, present or future?
Dmitry Balalykin, Dr. Med., Dr.Hist., Ph.D. in Philosophy, Full Professor / Leading research fellow, FSSBI N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health

The Religiously Unaffiliated in 2020: The Influences and Roles of the "Nones" in Contemprary Healthcare
Mary Lynn Dell, MD. DMin, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Pediatrics, The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital

How Not to Be Secular in Religion and Medicine
Jon Tilburt, MD, Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics, Mayo Clinic

3:40 - 4:05 p.m. (Papers)
Recovering the Original Covenantal Spirit of the Hippocratic Oath
Jonathan Wispe, MD, MTS,Center Member (OSU) and Attending Neonatologist (PMG), The Ohio State University Center for Bioethics and Pediatrix Medical Group

"Ethics of Human Dignity" and "Ethics of Healing": Islamization on Stem Cell Therapy
Munawar Chuhan, PhD., Lahore Garrison University

Exceptional Citizens: Veterans and Health Care
Brandy Fox, PhD candidate, Saint Louis University

Taking the Body Seriously: Reclaiming the ‘Mysterious’ and Placing it in the Hospital
Jack Horton, Student - Master of Theological Studies, Duke Divinity School

None of my Business?: Why it is both Dangerous and Impossible for Physicians to Avoid Theology
Wilson Ricketts, Medical Student, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

2:50 - 4:05 p.m. (Panels)
Medical, Theological, and Philosophical Reflections on the Convictions and Tolerance of Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici
Moderator: Richard Gunderman MD, PhD Indiana University School of Medicine
Panelists: 
Alex Lion, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine; and Robert Saler PhD, ThM, MDiv, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN

Is There a Future for Hippocratic Medicine?
Moderator: Farr Curlin, MD, Josiah Trent Professor of Medical Humanities, Duke University
Panelists: Ryan Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM, The Ohio State University;  Eddie Reichman, MD, Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center; and Asma Mobin-Uddin, MD, The Ohio State University
4:05 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Break
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Plenary  Two (Ballroom) - "Hippocrates in the Epigenetic Age"  Julia Hawkins, PhD, Associate Professor of Classics, Ohio State University, Project Director for Medical and Health Humanities and Arts Discovery Theme
5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. - Reception and Poster Session ()

Posters: 

Addressing Spirituality and Religion in Health Care Delivery: Comparing Provider and Patient Perspectives at the University of Michigan
Nadia Sebastian Kettinger, MD, PhD, University of Michigan


An Evolving Ethics Practice in Catholic Healthcare
Christina Namakydoost, MA, CHRISTUS Spohn Health System

Do No Harm: Moral Distress in Healthcare
Priscilla Mondt, PhD, Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks 

Efficacy of Chaplain Support in the Pre-Surgery Holding Area
Patricia Roberts, MDiv, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital; Jesse Watson, Chaplain.


Exploring the Chaplain's use of "Holy Listening Stones" in Pre-transplant Evaluations
Cassidy Wohlfarth, MDiv, Children's Health; Courtney Webb; Ryan Campbell; Kelli Triplett and Richard Kirk, Children's Health

Exploring Surgeons' Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the Bloodless Policy and Emergency Treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses Relative to Patient-Centered Care and Evidence-Based Medicine
Firpo Carr, PhD, Instructor/Independent Researcher, University of Phoenix


God Attachment Theory: Integrating Spiritual, Mental and Physical Health
Priscilla Mondt, PhD, Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks 

How Religious Communities Relate Physical Health to Theology
Bonnie Williams, BA, Furman University

Importance of Spiritual History Taking and Religiously Affiliated Care: The Patient’s Perspective
Jeffrey Fuchs, BS, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine


Insights on Pain Management from a Hindu Perspective
Anita Vasudevan, B.S., University of Michigan Medical School

“It is the Will of God:” Religion’s Influence on Minimally Invasive Tissue Sampling (MITS) through the CHAMPS Network in Bangladesh and Sierra Leone
Ashley Meehan, Master of Public Health, Emory University

Medical students' Names for the Transcendent
Cindy Schmidt, PhD, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences


RAMCOM: A tool for communication with Muslim patients considering fasting during Ramadan
Ahmed Abdelmageed, Pharm D, Manchester University 

The Association Between Spirituality and Clinical Diagnostic Profiles Among Medical Inpatients of a General Hospital in Brazil
Laura Castro, MS, Graduate Student, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, and Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Co-Authors: Tracy A. Balboni, MD, and John Peteet, MD, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School; and Fátima Cintra - Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo


The Evolving Tradition of Hope in the Abrahamic Religions and Medicine
Faraze Niazi, MD, West Virginia University


The Hippocractic Oath Within an Interfaith Context
 Jonathan Kopel, BS, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center


The Power of Painting in Narrative Medicine
Sumner Abraham, MD, University of Virginia 

The Use of Prayer in the Management of Pain - A Systematic Review
Marta Illueca, MD, MDiv, MSc, Curate, The Episcopal Church in Delaware

Thinking Outside the Lines: When Substance Abuse Patients Find a “Higher Power” a Road Block
Elizabeth Goeke, MDiv, Director of Spiritual Care, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center


Utilizing Live Guided Meditation Via Computer for the Reduction of Employee Stress
Patricia Roberts, MDiv, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital; Vivian Oliver, Chaplain

Values-Based Holistic Care for Communities in Need: The Example of Asha
John Peteet, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School


*Schedule is subject to change