Practice & Presence: A Gathering for Christians in Health Care
Duke Divinity School 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NCModern health care often treats the body as a machine, but does this offer the healing that humans need?
TMC Seminar (Online): “The Art of Living as Creatures” with Dr. Brian Volck and Dr. Martha Carlough
WebinarThis seminar is being held at 3:00pm ET, in conjunction with TMC's Practice & Presence Gathering. Brian Volck is a pediatrician who received his undergraduate degree in English Literature and his MD from Washington University in St. Louis and his MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of a poetry
TMC Seminar (Online): “Reimagining a Theology of Medicine” with Dr. Kristin Collier
WebinarKristin Collier, MD, FACP is an associate professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan where she serves as the director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion. She is also an associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the
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
WebinarJohn 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, NCDr. 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
WebinarDr. 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
WebinarAbraham 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
TMC Seminar (Online): “Racism: Driver of Health Disparities, Outlier in Our Theology of Illness” with Jason Ashe, MDiv, ThM
WebinarRacism: Driver of Health Disparities, Outlier in Our Theology of Illness
TMC Seminar (Online): “Can We Live Together? The Crisis of Journalism in America” with Emma Green, Journalist
WebinarCan We Live Together? The Crisis of Journalism in America
TMC Seminar (Online): “ ‘Many are Called…?’ Medicine as Ministry to Poor and Marginalized Communities“ with Daisey Dowell, MD
WebinarDr. 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