Pre-Conference Activities
The conference offers attendees some options to participate in pre-conference activities: (1) a workshop on spirituality and palliative care, (2) a Texas Medical Center Chapel Tour, and (3) a tour of the BAPS Srinarayan Mandir, . Pre-conference activities will take place on Friday, March 4, 2016, between 9 a.m. -12 p.m. Attendees will have the option to sign up during their conference registration. Four new workshops have recently been added and they are listed below.
MD Anderson Spiritual and Palliative Care Intensive Workshop (Bexar)
Eduardo Bruera, MD
Marvin Delgado, MD
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Led by Eduardo Bruera, MD, Department Chair
and Marvin Delgado, MD, Assistant Professor MD Anderson Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine MD Anderson is the largest cancer hospital in the world. As such, it requires a dedicated team focused on palliative care that is attuned to an expanding understanding of the scientific aspects of end of life care as well as the nuances of religious traditions, highlighted at the end of life. Drs. Bruera and Delgado have worked for the past several years creating the "Collective Soul Symposium," an annual forum for topics in the intersection of palliative care and spirituality. These physicians will host a workshop for participants, which will explore the themes present at Collective Soul through the past five years, with special attention to the questions involved in Approaching the Sacred. Cost: $75.00; Students - $35.00 |
Tour of Different Hospital Chapels in the Texas Medical Center, led by Wendy Cadge
Join Professor Wendy Cadge for a walking tour of chapels in the world's largest medical center. Dr. Cadge and a chaplain will lead participants in a discussion of how the different "sacred spaces" reflect different dimensions of the relationship between religion and American medicine over the past century. Transportation provided from hotel.
Wendy Cadge is a Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University and author of Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2012). She has studied and published regarding intercessory prayer, physicians' experiences of religion and spirituality, hospital chaplains, the prayers people write in hospital prayer books, religion and spirituality in palliative care, and the lived experiences of nurses. To learn more about Professor Cadge: www.wendycadge.com.
Cost: $75.00; Students - $35.00
Local Tour of the BAPS Srinarayan Mandir
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Conference attendees will go on a guided tour of one of the most beautiful places of worship in the Houston area. More than 33,000 individual pieces were carved by hand in India, shipped to the USA and assembled in Stafford, TX like a giant 3-D puzzle. Participants will experience a sacred space of living Hinduism and engage in discussion and dialogue around how scientific views of health relate to normative Hindu views on health and wellness. Lunch included and transportation provided from hotel. Cost: $75.00; Students - $35.00 |
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Workshops
The Medical Student and the Chaplain: Journey in the Halls of the Hospital (Navarro) (9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.)
Chaplains on the Medical Team (Navarro) (10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
Improving Spiritual Competency at the End of Life (Harris) (9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.)
Are Clinical Ethics Religiously Competent? (Harris) (10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
The Medical Student and the Chaplain: Journey in the Halls of the Hospital (Navarro) (9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.)
Chaplains on the Medical Team (Navarro) (10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)
Improving Spiritual Competency at the End of Life (Harris) (9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.)
Are Clinical Ethics Religiously Competent? (Harris) (10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)