TMC Seminar (Online): “Reimagining a Theology of Medicine” with Dr. Kristin Collier

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  Kristin 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

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  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

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  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

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

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  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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TMC Seminar (Online): “Beauty Will Heal the World?” with Brewer Eberly, MD, MACS

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Brewer Eberly is a third-generation family physician working at Fischer Clinic in Raleigh, North Carolina. He completed his family medicine residency and chief residency at AnMed Health in Anderson, South Carolina. He is a McDonald Agape Fellow in the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School, having completed the Theology, Medicine, & Culture

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Practice & Presence: A Gathering for Christians in Health Care

Duke Divinity School 407 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC

WHY THEOLOGY MATTERS FOR HEALTH CARE When Jesus healed, he reversed disorder and decay, liberated people from hostile powers, and restored them to relationship in community. Modern health care tends to focus only on the first of these, seeking to reverse disorder through technical fixes. How might those who inhabit modern health care look towards