TMC Seminar (Online): “Can a Pill Do What the Holy Spirit Could Not?: Psychiatric Medication, Personhood and Living Faithfully with Mental Health Challenges” with Dr. John Swinton

Webinar

  John Swinton is Professor in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care and Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. For more than a decade he worked as a registered mental health nurse. He also worked for a number of years as a hospital and community mental health Chaplain alongside of people

Inaugural Payne Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care with Dr. David R. Williams – “Social Inequities in Health: Opportunities and Challenges for Contemporary Christianity”

Goodson Chapel 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC

  Dr. David R. Williams is the Norman Professor of Public Health and Chair, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His prior faculty appointments were at Yale University and the University of

TMC Seminar (Online): “The Science of the Good Samaritan” with Dr. Emily R. Smith

Webinar

  Dr. Emily Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine/Surgery at Duke University and an Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute. Her research interests include pediatric global surgery, health economics, and advocacy with research sites across sub-Saharan Africa. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she started a Facebook

TMC Seminar (Online): “Health Equity is Not a Spectator Sport: A Radical Rerooting Using a Three Trees Analogy” with Abraham Nussbaum, MD, MTS

Webinar

  Abraham M. Nussbaum, MD, MTS is the Chief Education Officer at Denver Health, an academic safety net system, and a Professor of Psychiatry and Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He earned a medical degree and completed psychiatry residency at the University of North Carolina, and

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TMC Seminar (Online): “ ‘Many are Called…?’ Medicine as Ministry to Poor and Marginalized Communities“ with Daisey Dowell, MD

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    Dr. Dowell received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Loyola University and later, her Medical Degree from the University of Illinois after which she completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Chicago. Dr. Dowell currently serves as a primary care physician and Site Medical Director at the Homan Square branch of the

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Conference on Medicine and Religion

The Blackwell Inn and Pfahl Conference Center

The annual Conference on Medicine and Religion is a leading forum for discourse and scholarship at the intersection of medicine and religion. It exists to enable health professionals and scholars to gain a deeper and more practical understanding of how religion relates to the practice of medicine, with particular attention to the traditions of Judaism,

TMC Seminar (Online): “Living out an Intentional Theology of Faithful Presence in Medicine” with James Rusthoven, MD, MHSc, PhD

Webinar

  James Rusthoven is a medical oncologist, bioethicist, and Professor emeritus of Oncology at McMaster University. He received a PhD in theology from Trinity College, University of Bristol in the UK, working on expanding a covenantal ethical framework for medicine. Dr Rusthoven is also a fellow of the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology, Cambridge,

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