Monthly Meeting of the
Spirituality,
Religion, and Health Interest Group
NEXT MEETING: Wednesday, September 4, 2013
[There will be no meetings in July or August.]
from 10:00 to 11:30 AM
in the Hirst Auditorium (Dulles Bldg., 1st Floor)
at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's
Our will be Sarah Kagan, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Gerontological Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Presenter and topic to be announced in August.
General Description of the Group:
- Open to everyone from the community, the University, and the Health System
- Presentation-discussion format [See: Recent Topics and Presenters, below]
- Meetings are generally 10:00-11:30 AM on the first Wednesday of every month (but no meeting in August)
David J. Hufford addresses the Interest Group
For More Information:
- Call 215-662-2591 or e-mail ralph.ciampa@uphs.upenn.edu
Past Topics and Presenters:
- SPIRITUALITY IN THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM: DYNAMICS OF CARING AND COMMUNICATION
- with Barbara Reville, DNP, CRNP, ACHPN, Director, Palliative Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
[For Dr. Reville's PowerPoint presentation (as a PDF), click HERE.]
- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND 21ST CENTURY MEDICINE
- with Virginia Harris, CSB, Christian Science Board of Lectureship
- DILEMMA AND PARADOX: CANCER SURVIVORSHIP IN AN AGEING SOCIETY
- with Sarah Kagan, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor of Gerontological Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
- DEVELOPMENT OF CASES FOR SPIRITUALITY EDUCATION: LESSONS LEARNED
- with Horace DeLisser, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion
- THE SPIRITUAL BRAIN
- with Andrew B. Newberg, MD, Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine, and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Radiology,
at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College
- THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF PERSONAL FAITH AND RELIGION IN THE LIVES OF GENETIC SERVICE PROVIDERS
- with Barbara A. Bernhardt, MS, CGC, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Center for Integration of Genetic and
Healthcare Technologies (PennCIGHT).
[The PowerPoint presentation, along with an appended list of related publications, is available as a PDF by clicking HERE.]
- POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH: ADVERSITY, TRANSFORMATION, AND SPIRITUALITY
- with Ann Marie Roepke, MA, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania
- ADDICTION, RECOVERY, AND THE SPIRITUALITY THAT INFORMS BOTH
- with Carl R. Yusavitz, DMin, Director of Pastoral Services and CPE Supervisor at the Penn Foundation
- THE VIRTUES OF THE NEW CONTEMPLATIVE STUDIES
- with Gordon Bermant, JD, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, and the Benjamin Franklin Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania
[Dr Bermant's slides will be posted here soon.]
[Dr. Bermant's presentation is available as a PDF by clicking HERE
Also, materials from the International Symposia for Contemplative Studies are available from the contemplativeresearch.org.]
- COPING AND SPIRITUALITY IN PEDIATRIC CANCER PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
- with Aimee K. Hildenbrand, BS, Clinical Research Assistant, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
and Meghan L. Marsac, PhD, Behavioral Researcher, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
[The presentation is available as a PDF by clicking HERE.]
- PATIENT USE OF A PASTORAL IMAGES BOOKLET IN COPING WITH HOSPITALIZATION
- with Florence Gelo, DMin, Associate Professor, Department of Family,
Community and Preventive Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
- PILGRIMAGE: SEEING THE SACRED
IN NORTHERN INDIA
- with Kava Schafer, MDiv, MA (Holistic Spirituality), Staff Oncology Chaplain for HUP Pastoral Care and
Program Chaplain for HUP Palliative Care
- FAMILY SHRINES OF HOPE ON THE MEDICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
- with John Hansen-Flaschen, MD, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Pulmonary,
Allergy, and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
[Dr. Hansen-Flaschen's video can be viewed via Vimeo
or YouTube.]
- SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH: WHAT TWO PROVIDERS HAVE
LEARNED IN WORKING WITH YOUTH AT RISK FOR HIV
AND WITH HIV+ YOUTH
- with Nadia Dowshen, MD, Director of Adolescent HIV Services at Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania,
and Mary R. Tanney, MSN, CRNP, MPH, AAHIVS, Nurse Practitioner, ATN Research Manager, Division of Adolescent
Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- WORKING WITH FAMILIES OF DEAF CHILDREN
- with Donna Jo Napoli, PhD, Professor of Linguistics, Swarthmore College
- VERBATIM ET LITERATIM: EXPLORING ETHICS IN NARRATIVES FROM THE BEDSIDE AND THE BOARDROOM
- with DAVID PERLMAN, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Penn School of Nursing, and
Associate Fellow, Penn Center for Bioethics
[Dr. Perlman's PowerPoint, with a recreding of his introductory remarks, is available as a podcast from
www.bioethics.net.
- USING YOGA TO ENHANCE COPING & SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
- with Christina Jackson, RN, PhD, Professor and Curriculum Chair, Department of Nursing,
Eastern University; Associate Editor, Holistic Nursing Practice; and the American Holistic Nurses
Association's 2011 Holistic Nurse of the Year
[Dr. Jackson's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- THE SPIRITUALITY AND ETHICS UNDERLYING THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010
- with Thomas M. Knadig, EdD, a Templeton scholar in science and religion, who serves as an extern
chaplain with the University of Pennsylvania Health Care System, and co-author of
Health Care Ethics and the Law.
[Dr. Knadig's presentation materials are available as PDFs for download:
PowerPoint,
References (handout #1), and
Timeline (handout #2).]
- JEWISH CHAPLAINCY, PROFESSIONAL CHAPLAINCY, AND HEALTH CARE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROFESSIONALIZATION OF SPIRITUAL CARE
- with Rabbi Robert Tabak, PhD, Staff Chaplain, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Adjunct faculty, St. Joseph’s University and Cabrini College; Editor, RRA Connection (Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association Newsletter). He is the author of "The Emergence of Jewish Health-Care Chaplaincy: The Professionalization of Spiritual Care" [American Jewish Archives Journal 62, no. 2, (December 2010): 89-109]
- MANTRAM REPETITION FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING: RESEARCH & CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
- with Chaplain Mirabai Galashan, MTh
[Chaplain Galashan's PowerPoint presentation is available as a PDF by clicking
HERE.]
- GUIDED IMAGERY AND MUSIC: HEALTH, SPIRITUALITY, AND MUSIC IMAGING
- with Bryan J. Muller, PhD (Music Therapy), MT-BC, FAMI
- BIOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY, AND WELL-BEING: A PERSPECTIVE FROM QUANTUM PHYSICS
- with Thomas Padikal, PhD, medical physicist, consultant in radiology and radiation oncology,
and chair of Science and Spirituality, Inc.
- EDUCATING BUDDHIST CHAPLAINS AND TEACHING CHAPLAINS ABOUT BUDDHISM
- with The Rev. Daijaku Judith Kinst, PhD, Chaplaincy Program Coordinator,
Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
- A DISCUSSION OF SPIRITUAL CONCERNS IN THE CARE OF CHILDREN
- with Chaplain and Pediatric Nurse Roslyn Taylor, Elise Gaul, Children's Bereavement Coordinator,
Wissahickon Hospice's David Bradley Children's Bereavement Program, and Chaplain John Ehman
- PRINCIPLES OF NEUROTHEOLOGY
- with Andrew Newberg, MD, Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for
Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College, and Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; author of
Principles of Neurotheology
- THE FORGIVENESS PROJECT: CLINICAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN FORGIVENESS AND HEALING
- with Chaplain Michael S. Barry, Director of Pastoral Care at Cancer Treatment Centers
of America at Eastern Regional Medical Center
- "WHEN RELIGION GETS SICK": REFLECTIONS ON WAYNE OATES' IDEAS ABOUT GRIEF IN ILLNESS
- with Chaplain Jim Browning, Coordinator of Clinical Pastoral Education at UPHS
- INTERFAITH CONVERSATIONS WHEN SOME FAITHS ARE SECULAR
- with Gordon Bermant, JD, PhD, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, and the Benjamin
Franklin Scholars Program, University of Pennsylvania; and past-president of the
Buddhist Churches of America
[Dr. Bermant's PowerPoint presentation is available as a PDF by clicking
HERE.]
- BLESSINGS AND BATTLES: APPROACHES TO THE EXPERIENCE OF CANCER IN LATE LIFE
- with Sarah H. Kagan, RN, PhD, Professor of Gerontological Nursing and Secondary Faculty
with the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of
Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans: Blessings
and Battles (2009)
- MINDFULNESS PRACTICE
- with Michael J. Baime, MD, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
and founder and Director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness
and Stress Management at the School of Medicine
- SPIRITUALITY: A NURSE'S JOURNEY THROUGH PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
- with Harleah G. Buck, PhD, RN, CHPN, Research Fellow, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence,
and NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
[Dr. Buck's PowerPoint presentation is available as a PDF by clicking
HERE.]
- WAYS THAT CLINICAL STAFF MAY SUPPORT PATIENTS SPIRITUALLY
- with John Ehman, Chaplain, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
[Chaplain Ehman's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS: "INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AS A REVELATORY EXPERIENCE"
- with Chaplain Kava Schafer, MDiv, MA (Holistic Spirituality), participant in the Parliament
of the World's Religions, Melbourne, Australia, December 2009
[An abridged version of the PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- MIND/BODY/SPIRIT SERVICES FOR WELLNESS IN THE HIV/AIDS COMMUNITY
- with staff and associates of SILOAM (www.SILOAMwellness.org):
Joseph A. Lukach, MSW, MBA, MDiv,
Executive Director; Lori Curtis, MSW, LSW, Program Director; Bernadette
Kinniry, RSM, Co-founder; Cathy Maguire, RSM, pastoral counselor; and
Mary Lou Galantino, PT, MS, PhD, MSCE, Professor of Physical Therapy, Richard
Stockton College of New Jersey
[The Siloam PowerPoint presentation is available as a PDF by clicking
HERE.]
- "I DON'T WANT TO BE A BURDEN": AN INTERDISCIPLINARY DISCUSSION ON HOW THE
SELF-DESCRIPTION OF "BURDEN" MAY IMPACT PATIENTS' CARE.
- with Rabbi Tsurah August, Hospice Rabbi for the Jewish Hospice Network
of Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia, The Joan Grossman
Center for Chaplaincy and Healing
- THE ROLE OF MINDFULNESS IN HEALTHCARE REFORM
- with Elizabeth R. Mackenzie, PhD, School of Arts and Sciences, University of
Pennsylvania
[Dr. Mackenzie's PowerPoint presentation is available as a PDF by clicking
HERE.
See also her article, "The Role of Mindfulness in Healthcare Reform: A Policy Paper", and her book, Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Older Adults.]
- TALES PUBLICLY ALLOWED: COMPETENCE, CAPACITY, AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF
- with Adrienne M. Martin, PhD, Asst. Professor of Philosophy, Senior Fellow,
Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania
- SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES USE AMONG CANCER SURVIVORS
- with Jun James Mao, MD, MSCE, Asst. Professor, Department of Family Medicine &
Community Health, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- THE PERSPECTIVES AND INSTITUTIONAL REALITIES OF HOSPITAL CHAPLAINS
- with Wendy Cadge, PhD, Asst. Professor of Sociology,
Brandeis University, and Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University; author of Paging God: Religion in the Halls
of Medicine
[Dr. Cadge's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- FOR THE HONEY AND THE STING: GRATITUDE AS PART OF CHAPLAINCY
- with Rabbi Robert Tabak, PhD, Staff Chaplain, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania;
Adjunct faculty, St. Joseph’s University and Cabrini College; Editor, RRA Connection (Reconstructionist
Rabbinical Association Newsletter); and Board of the National Association of Jewish Chaplains.
- DISCUSSION OF A NEW ANTHOLOGY PROJECT ON RELIGION, DEATH, AND DYING IN AMERICA
- with Lucy Bregman, PhD, Professor of Religion, Temple University
- SPIRITUAL DIRECTION: CULTIVATING HOLISTIC SPIRITUALITY THROUGH RELATIONSHIP
- with Kava Schafer, MDiv, MA, HUP Staff Chaplain
- PROVIDING PASTORAL CARE SERVICES TO A HOSPITAL THROUGH THE CPE MODEL:
A DIALOGUE ON EDUCATION AND PRACTICE
- with Randy Shoun, Coordinator of Clinical Pastoral Education, UPHS
- PROFESSIONALISM AND THE PRIVILEGE OF PRACTICE
- with Jack Truten, PhD, Director, Professionalism Education, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- THE PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS
- with Solomon Katz, PhD, Director of the Krogman Center for Childhood Growth and Development at the
University of Pennsylvania, and Trustee with the Parliament of the World’s Religions
- THOUGHTS ON PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RELATIONSHIP TO THE TRANSCENDENT
- with Howard S. Baker, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Scott Jones, MDiv
[Slides from this presentation are available as a PDF by clicking HERE.]
- VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE AND THOSE WHO CARE
- with Linda O'Brien, RN, MA, founder and former President of ElderCare Ethics Associates,
chaplain for Holisticare Hospice, and adjunct chaplain at HUP.
- FACING THE END OF LIFE AS A HOSPITAL PATIENT: SPIRITUAL CARE NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES
- with Christina M. Puchalski, MD, Director of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (Washington, DC), and Associate Professor at the George Washington
University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. (For a list of journal articles, click HERE.)
- AGING, DEMENTIA, AND WELL-BEING
- with Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, Director of Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism
at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, PA) and editor of the ground-breaking book,
Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources,
and author of Jewish Visions for Aging: A Professional Guide for Fostering Wholeness.
- HOW HINDUISM VIEWS PAIN AND SUFFERING
- with Sarah M. Whitman, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of
Psychiatry at the Drexel University College of Medicine, and authors of:
"Pain and Suffering as Viewed by the Hindu Religion,"
Journal of Pain 8(8):607-13. [Dr. Whitman's PowerPoint presentation is available
as a PDF by clicking HERE.]
- THE RITE STUFF: ROSARY AT THE INTERSECTION OF RELIGION AND HEALTH
- with Matthew Anastasi, BA, Chief Technologist at Penn's CLinical Research Center for Sleep, and
Research Assistant at the Center for Spirituality and the Mind; and Andrew Newberg, MD, Associate
Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry at Penn, and Director of the Center for Spirituality and the Mind
--co-authors of "A Preliminary Study of the Acute Effects of Religious Ritual on Anxiety" [Journal
of Complementary and Alternative Medicine 14, no. 2 (February 2008): 163-165].
- SPIRITUALITY AND MEDICATION ADHERENCE IN OLDER AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN
DIAGNOSED WITH HYPERTENSION: A PROCESS OF PARTNERING WITH GOD
- with Lisa M. Lewis, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Penn School of Nursing, Family and
Community Health Division, and the Center for Health Disparities Research.
[Dr. Lewis' PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- DIFFERENTIATING VISIONARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES FROM PSYCHOTIC HALLUCINATIONS
- with David J. Hufford, PhD, University Professor Emeritus at Penn State and
the 2007-2008 Templeton Research Fellow with the University of Pennsylvania's Mind, Religion, and Ethics
in Dialogue lecture series
- SPIRITUAL HEALING: RELATING THE HEALING TRADITIONS OF RELIGION AND MEDICINE
- with David J. Hufford, PhD, University Professor Emeritus at Penn State and
the 2007-2008 Templeton Research Fellow with the University of Pennsylvania's Mind, Religion, and Ethics
in Dialogue lecture series
- PSYCHOSOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN LIVING WITH A LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS
- with Tammy I. Kang,
MD, Medical Director of the Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT) at Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia and co-author of "Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs of Children
Living with a Life-Limiting Illness" [Pediatric Clinics of North America
54, no. 5 (Oct 2007): 609-29],
and Dexter Lanctot, Chaplain, PACT
[A PDF file of the PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- AN OPEN DISCUSSION OF THE SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
- with Dina Greenberg
- MINDFULNESS AND MOTIVATION IN DAILY LIFE: INSIGHTS AND PROVOCATIONS
- with Jackson Kytle, PhD, Vice President for Academic Affairs at
The HealthCare Chaplaincy
in New York City, and author of To Want To Learn
(available through Amazon and other retailers)
[Dr. Kytle's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- THE "EXPLOSION" OF INTEREST IN SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH: HOW DID WE GET HERE AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
- with David J. Hufford, PhD, University Professor Emeritus at Penn State and
the 2007-2008 Templeton Research Fellow with the University of Pennsylvania's Mind, Religion, and Ethics
in Dialogue lecture series.
- THE IMPACT OF SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AND PRAYER
ON PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
- with Christopher Lance Coleman, PhD, MPH, APRN-BC, ACRN, Assistant Professor of Nursing
at the University of Pennsylvania, and faculty for the Center for Health Disparities
Research and the Graduate Program in Public Health Studies.
- THE SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATIONAL PROCESSES OF BAALEI TESHUVAH
- with Roberta G. Sands, MSW, PhD, Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of
Social Policy and Practice
[Professor Sands' PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- PRAYER AFTER STROKE, AND ITS RELATION TO QUALITY OF LIFE
- with Gale Robinson-Smith, RN, PhD, College of Nursing at Villanova University
- TAKING A CHANCE ON GOD
- with Rev. Bobbie McKay, PhD, and Lewis A. Musil, MFA, of the Spiritual Health Center, Wilmette, IL
- DISCUSSION OF RAPHAEL CAMPO'S ESSAY, "LIKE A PRAYER"
- with Elizabeth Mackenzie, PhD, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Department
of Science, Technology and Society and a Penn Writing Fellow
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS THAT HEAL: PUTTING YOUR EMOTIONS TO WORK
- with Barry Bub, MD, author of Communication Skills that Heal:
A Practical Approach to a New Professionalism in Medicine (2005). To read a sample chapter from Dr. Bub's book, and for more information about him,
visit www.processmedicine.com.
- ENTHEOGENS, ENLIGHTENMENT, AND EXPERIMENTAL HUMANITIES
- with Thomas B. Roberts, PhD, Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois
University, where he has taught Foundations of Psychedelic Studies since 1982. Dr. Roberts is
author of Psychoactive
Sacramentals: Essays on Entheogens and Religion and the recently published Psychedelic Horizons and is
co-author of the on-line resource, Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy (http://csp.org/chrestomathy).
- REFLECTIONS ON SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCHER
- with Mary Lou Galantino, PT, PhD, MSCE, Professor of Physical Therapy, Richard Stockton
College of New Jersey. [For a select bibliography of articles (PDF) from Dr. Galantino's overall work,
click here.]
- WHY WE BELIEVE WHAT WE BELIEVE: BELIEFS AND THEIR EFFECT ON HEALTH
- with Andrew Newberg, M.D., Associate Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry,
and Director of the Center for Spirituality and the Mind, University of Pennsylvania.
[This program is sponsored by Penn's Center for Spirituality and the Mind.]
- D.T. SUZUKI: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE OF AN IMPORTANT ZEN PIONEER
- with Albert J. Stunkard, MD, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, and author of "Suzuki Daisetz:
An Appreciation," Eastern Buddhist (new series) 36, nos. 1-2 (2004): 192-228. [This program
is sponsored by Penn's Center for Spirituality and the Mind.]
- SHOULD THE ROLES OF PHYSICIAN AND CHAPLAIN BE FUSED? A PERSONAL REFLECTION.
- with Robert M. Nelson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pediatrics,
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
[Dr. Nelson's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- REFLECTIONS ON PENN'S SPIRITUALITY & MEDICINE SUMMER ELECTIVE COURSE IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- with Michael Baime, MD, Co-Leader of the Spirituality & Medicine Course
- WHEN THE FAMILY EXPECTS A MIRACLE
- with Horace DeLisser, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary,
Allergy and Critical Care, HUP, and Former Physician Co-Chair, HUP Ethics Committee
- DEATH OF A DREAM: SPIRITUAL CARE FOR THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT AND FAMILY AT END OF LIFE
- with Mirabai Galashan, Interfaith Chaplain, Pediatric Advanced Care Team, The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, and
Don Eisenhauer, Hospice Chaplain, Visiting Nurse Association of Pottstown and Vicinity
- HUMOR AND SPIRITUALITY NEAR THE END OF LIFE
- with Marvin E. Herring, MD, Clinical Professor, Family Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey, School of Medicine
[Dr. Herring's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE. Any use of his
drawings or other material should be acknowledged to herrinmg@umdnj.edu.]
- DISCUSSION OF "RELIGIOSITY IN A HEMODIALYSIS POPULATION AND ITS RELATIONSHIP
TO SATISFACTION WITH MEDICAL CARE, SATISFACTION WITH LIFE, AND ADHERENCE" [
American Journal of Kidney Diseases 44, no. 3 (September 2004): 488-497]
- with Elisheva Berman, MD, Psychiatry Resident, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine (New York City) and
Joshua H. Lipschutz, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
[Dr. Berman's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- HEALING THE SOUL IN THE AGE OF THE BRAIN:
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING CONSCIOUS
- with Elio Frattaroli, MD, psychiatrist and physhoanalyst, and author of
Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain
(www.eliofrattaroli.com)
and with a response by Andrew Newberg, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
and Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania. [This event co-sponsored with
Mind, Religion, and Ethics in Dialogue --winner
of the Templeton Research Lectureship Program on the Constructive Dialogue between Science and
Religion]
- WHEN THE FAMILY AND TREATMENT TEAM DISAGREE: CULTURAL, ETHICAL,
SPIRITUAL CONSIDERATIONS
- with Chaplain Ralph Ciampa, Director, Department of Pastoral Care
[Chaplain Ciampa's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- REFLECTIONS ON HOSPITAL CHAPLAINCY FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
- with Britt Dahlberg
- IS SPIRITUALITY JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR POSITIVE EMOTIONS?
- with George Vaillant, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School,
Director of Research for the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and
author of Aging Well and The Wisdom of the Ego. [This event co-sponsored with
Mind, Religion, and Ethics in Dialogue --winner
of the Templeton Research Lectureship Program on the Constructive Dialogue between Science and
Religion]
- CONNECTION AND NON-LOCALITY IN SPIRITUALITY, MEDICINE, AND HOLISTIC HEALING
- with Wendy J. Canning, LISTD, LA, BB
- SPIRITUAL STRUGGLE AND PATIENTS' RELIGIOUS COPING
- with Chaplain John Ehman, UPHS Pastoral Care Department
[Chaplain Ehman's PowerPoint presentation is available by clicking
HERE.]
- HOW TO GROW FAITH, HOPE, AND COMPASSION WHEN WE HAVE DOUBTS!
- with Barbara Wingate, MD, MSW
- BUDDHISM AND WORKING WITH BUDDHIST PATIENTS
- with Chaplain John Weber
- CONDUCTING SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENTS IN HOSPITALS AND OTHER SETTINGS: AN OVERVIEW
OF SIX QUALITATIVE SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT TOOLS
- with David R. Hodge, Ph.D., Post-doctoral fellow,
Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at Penn and author of
Spiritual Assessment: A Handbook for Helping Professionals
- AN OPEN DISCUSSION ON BIOETHICS IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY, WITH RESPECT
TO RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL CONVICTIONS --LED BY A DOCTOR WHO DOES HOUSE CALLS
- with Michael Moore, MD, HUP Department of Medicine Immunodeficiency Program
- HEALING THE BODY, HEALING THE SOUL: CHALLENGES AT THE INTERSECTION OF SPIRITUALITY
AND MODERN HEALTH CARE
- with Dina Greenberg, MLA
- VALUES-BASED DECISION MAKING: A MODEL FOR CONVERSATIONS WITH PATIENTS AND
THEIR FAMILIES
- with Rabbi David A. Teutsch, PhD, Professor of Contemporary
Jewish Civilization at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, and Director
of the Levin-Lieber Program in Jewish Ethics and the Center for Jewish Ethics.
- HOW OUR PATIENTS PERCEIVE US: ROLE EXPECTATIONS FOR CHAPLAINS/CLINICIANS
- with discussion led by Roslyn Taylor, RN, MARS
and Linda O'Brien, RN, MA, Director of Eldercare Ethics Associates
- SPIRITUALITY MEASURED: CAPTURING THE ELUSIVE EFFECT: REFLECTIONS
ON THE RECENT CONFERENCE AT THE MAYO CLINIC
- with Wilson Will, HUP Chaplain Resident
- THE SPECTRUM OF DEPRESSION AND SPIRITUALITY AMONG OLDER ADULTS
- with Sarah Forrest, Research Coordinator, Spectrum II Project, University
of Pennsylvania Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine
- REFLECTIONS ON THE SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH COURSE AT PENN'S CENTER FOR BIOETHICS
- with David Sontag, JD, MBE
- MEDICAL STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
SUMMER ELECTIVE COURSE AT PENN
- with Penn Medical Students Molly Carey, Laura Heller, Jennifer Holton, and
Vishal Patel,
and Lynn Seng, MSEd, Director, Special Educational Projects,
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- TEACHING THE ASSESSMENT OF SPIRITUALITY TO MEDICAL STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS
- with Jennifer Kapo, MD, Division of Geriatrics, UPHS, and Member of the Palliative
Care Consult Team
- RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AFFECTING MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING
- with Chaplain John Ehman, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center-Presbyterian.
- PROMOTING A HEALTHY DEATH
- with Jonathan R. Gavrin, MD, Director of Penn's Symptom Management and
Palliative Care Program
- PERFORMANCE OF MEDICAL STUDENTS TAKING A SPIRITUAL HISTORY
- with David Musick, PhD, Director of Graduate Medical Education, UPHS;
Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of Education & Development, Penn Department of
Rehabilitation Medicine; and Associate, Penn Center for Bioethics
- FROM THE BANKS OF THE NILE TO THE STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA: MIDWIFERY AND THE TRADITION
OF SPIRITUALITY IN HEALTH CARE
- with William F. McCool, CNM, PhD, Director, Midwifery Graduate
Program of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
and Mamie Guidera, CNM, MSN, Faculty, Institute of Midwifery at Philadelphia University
- SPIRITUALITY IN THE PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP: I SAY A LITTLE PRAYER FOR YOU
- with Carla M. Messikomer, PhD, President of The Acadia Institute, Exton PA
- SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS: AN ENTREE TO THE SOUL
- with Carolyn M. Grande, MSN, CRNP, Advance Practice Nurse, Department
of Hematology Oncology
- HOMELESSNESS AND URBAN SOCIAL JUSTICE: THE CHALLENGE TO PEOPLE OF FAITH
- with Dennis P. Culhane, PhD, Professor of Social Welfare Policy, University of
Pennsylvania
- BUILDING BETTER BRAINS: THE ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF NEUROTECHNOLOGY
- with Paul Root Wolpe, PhD, Senior Faculty Associate, Penn's Center for Bioethics;
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; and Chief of Bioethics
and Human Subject Protection, NASA
- MEDITATION AND SPIRITUALITY FOR HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
- with Michael J Baime, MD, Director of the Penn Program for Stress Management
- REFLECTIONS ON THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SUMMER ELECTIVE COURSE: "SPIRITUALITY
AND MEDICINE"
- with Penn Medical Students Jennifer Conroy, Steven Crooks, and Kara Durand
- CURRENT AND RECENT RESEARCH INITIATIVES BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PASTORAL CARE
- with Chaplain Ralph Ciampa, STM, Director of Pastoral Care, UPHS
- REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE AND CURRENT TRENDS IN SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
RESEARCH: A REPORT OF THE APRIL 1-3, 2003 CONFERENCE AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
- with John Ehman, MDiv, Chaplain, UPMC-Presbyterian
- and Roslyn Taylor, MA, RN
- THE ROLES OF RELIGIOUS COPING IN THE STRESS-DISTRESS RELATIONSHIP
- with Anthony N. Fabricatore, PhD, Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
- WHEN RELIGION AND ANXIETY COLLIDE: THE CASE OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
- with Jonathan D. Huppert, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry,
Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, University of Pennsylvania
- THE PROFESSIONALISM OF SPIRITUAL CARE: THE EXAMPLE OF JEWISH CHAPLAINCY
- with Rabbi Robert Tabak, PhD, HUP Department of Pastoral Care
- A WEB-BASED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES DATABASE
- with Andrew Newberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology,
- and Avrum Goodblatt, Research Assistant in Nuclear Medicine, UPHS
- FAITH-FRIENDLY BUT FACT-BASED: THE FIVE PROGRAM COMPONENTS OF CRRUCS
- with Byron Johnson, PhD, Director, Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil
Society (CRRUCS); Director, Office for the Study and Prevention of Domestic Violence;
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Robert A. Fox Leadership Program, University of
Pennsylvania; and Senior Fellow, International Center for the Integration of Health
and Spirituality.
- INTRODUCTION TO SPIRITUAL AND ENERGY HEALING PRACTICES: THE LAYING ON OF HANDS, THERAPEUTIC TOUCH, REIKI, AND HEALING TOUCH
- with Audrey Whiteside Burt, MS, OTR/L, LMT, Healing Touch Practitioner, Reike Level II
- ARTICLE DISCUSSION: "THE SPIRITUALITY OF ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF A SCRIPTURE-BASED GROUP IN AN ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER," BY C. M. MESSIKOMER AND W. DE CRAEMER [Academic Medicine 77, no. 6 (June 2002): 562-573].
- with David Musick, PhD, Director of Graduate Medical Education, UPHS; Assistant
Professor and Vice Chair of Education & Development, Penn Department of Rehabilitation
Medicine; and Associate, Penn Center for Bioethics
- and Carla Messikomer, PhD, Director, Acadia Institute
- SUFFERING AND HEALING: RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PASTORAL CARE
- with Eleni Litt, PhD, Asst. Dean of Undergraduate and Post-baccalaureate Programs, College of General Studies
- and Kathleen L. Egan, PhD, Director of Geriatrics Education, Institute on Aging
- THE RISKS OF PERSONAL SPIRITUAL SHARING IN PATIENT-PHYSICIAN COMMUNICATION
- with Florence Gelo, DMin, Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Humanities, Drexel University College of Medicine
- THE TERM SPIRITUALITY: DEFINITIONS AND USAGE IN THE HEALTH CARE LITERATURE
- with Chaplains John Ehman and Ralph Ciampa, UPHS Department of Pastoral Care
- SPIRITUALITY IN MEDICINE: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION
- with David Musick, PhD, Director of Graduate Medical Education, UPHS; Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of Education & Development, Penn Department of Rehabilitation Medicine; and Associate, Penn Center for Bioethics
- INCORPORATING PATIENT AND FAMILY PREFERENCES REGARDING SPIRITUALITY INTO AN INTERVENTION FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS
- with Fran Barg, PhD, Lecturer in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
- SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT: ITS VALUE FOR CLINICIANS AND PATIENTS
- with Laura Pieri, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Temple University
- SPIRITUALITY AND END-OF-LIFE CARE
- with JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, RN, Post Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Penn School of Nursing
- AN INTRODUCTION TO QIGONG
- with Master FaXiang Hou, QiGong Research Society
- SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH: THE PERSPECTIVE FROM THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION
- with Ann Matter, PhD, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Penn
- CURRENT PUBLIC INTEREST IN SPIRITUALITY RESEARCH: A VIEW FROM THE BOOK TOUR —REFLECTIONS IN LIGHT OF A NATIONAL TOUR SPEAKING ABOUT WHY GOD WON'T GO AWAY
- with Andrew Newberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, UPHS
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