upcoming

Responding to the Call of the Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today

Wednesday May 23 – Friday May 25, 2012

The 2012 Conference on Medicine and Religion, sponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, will consider the relation of religion to the practice of medicine, with a focus on clinicians’ responses to the sick and the meaning and spiritual dimensions of the practice of medicine. This inaugural conference is supported by a grant from the Templeton Foundation. Plenary sessions will be organized around the following themes:

Day 1: History of medicine and religion: How did we end up here?
Day 2: Medicine as vocation: In what sense is caring for the sick a spiritual practice?
Day 3: Intrinsically connected? The relationships between religion, ethics, science and the practice of medicine

Lectures and discussions around these themes will be conducted in a spirit that builds bridges between theory and practice, science and theology, the academy and lay communities, the various health professions, and the Abrahamic religious traditions.

Speakers: Mohammad Y. Alvi, MD, FRCP • Alan Astrow, MD • Osman Bakar, PhD • Farr Curlin, MD • Gary Ferngren, PhD • Azgad Gold, MD • Rev. Daniel Hall, MD, MDiv, MHSc • John Hardt, PhD • John Haught, PhD • Jonathan Imber, PhD • Faroque Ahmad Khan, MB, MACP • Shaykh Mohammed Amin Kholwadia • Mary Kraft, MD, MPA • Daniel Kim, MPH, MAR • Warren Kinghorn, MD, ThD • Martin Marty, PhD • Shaykh Samir Nass, MD • Aasim Padela, MD, MSc • Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD • Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD • Kelly Wolenberg, • BA Laurie Zoloth, PhD

To learn more and to register, click here.

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