Past Events

  • 2019 Jan 18

    Religion and Medicine: Should They Mix?

    6:30pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    TMEC Amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, Tosteson Medical Education Center

    Event Description
    There are many reasons for concern about physicians/healthcare providers bringing their religious beliefs into clinical practice. The power dynamic between physicians and patients can lead to unintended consequences, and some might say that since most physicians are not trained to talk about...

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  • 2018 May 10

    Spirituality and Psychiatry

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    TMEC 209 Mini amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Ave

    This talk will present a brief overview of the impact of spirituality on mental health and its implications for psychiatric practice. It will also discuss the recently-released World Psychiatric Association (WPA)’s Position Statement on Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry, which calls for psychiatrists to acknowledge the role of religion/spirituality within the full ecology of patient experience and to incorporate patients’ religion/spirituality into treatment plans as appropriate.

     

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  • 2018 Apr 23

    Spirituality, Health, and Leadership

    1:00pm to 1:50pm

    Location: 

    Kresge (G2), Harvard School of Public Health

    Event description: Dr. Howard Koh, former United States Assistant Secretary for Health and current professor at HSPH, will offer personal reflections on the role of spirituality and purpose in leadership. The talk will also include a discussion of public policy as it relates to spiritual care in the United States.

    Light refreshments will be provided.

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  • 2018 Apr 13

    Conference on Medicine and Religion

    Fri - Sun, Apr 13 to Apr 15, 3:00pm - 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Saint Louis, Missouri
    The 2018 Conference invites health care practitioners, scholars, religious community leaders, and students to address questions associated with the theme, “Examining the Foundations of Medicine and Religion,” by relating its questions to religious traditions and practices. We welcome an array of... Read more about Conference on Medicine and Religion
  • 2017 Oct 17

    Jeff Levin: Faith-Based Partnerships in Medicine and Public Health

    1:00pm

    Location: 

    G2 (Kresge Hall), Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115

    Interconnections between the faith-based and medical sectors are multifaceted and have existed for centuries, including partnerships that have evolved over the past several decades in the U.S. This talk outlines ten points of intersection that have engaged medical and public health professionals and institutions across specialties, focusing especially on primary care, global health, and community-based outreach to underserved populations. In a time of healthcare resource scarcity, such partnerships—involving religious congregations, denominations...

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  • 2017 Mar 24

    Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion

    Fri Mar 24 (All day) to Sun Mar 26 (All day)

    Location: 

    JW Marriott Houston

    The 2017 Conference invites health care practitioners, scholars, religious community leaders, and students to address questions associated with the theme, “Re-Enchanting Medicine,” by relating its questions to religious traditions and practices.

    Find more information here: http://www.medicineandreligion.com/

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  • 2017 Mar 09

    A Fourth Wave of Psychotherapies: Moving Beyond Recovery Toward Well Being

    5:30pm

    Location: 

    Duke Hospital North, Room 2001

     

    Three waves of psychotherapeutic approaches have been distinguished, based on historical and theoretical considerations. Growing evidence supports the use of a fourth group therapies that aim beyond insight, mastery and problem-solving toward the achievement of positive well-being. These more explicitly value based approaches include positive psychology interventions (PPI), loving kindness and compassion meditation, dignity and gratitude promoting, meaning centered, forgiveness oriented, and spiritually informed therapies. Fourth wave approaches raise practical and ethical...

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  • 2016 Dec 02

    Harvard Symposium on Advancing Health, Religion, and Spirituality

    10:30am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    Speakers and Panelists include:

    Tracy Balboni, Harvard Medical School
    Kathy Gallivan, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
    Gloria White-Hammond, Harvard Divinity School
    Harold Koenig, Duke University

    Howard Koh, Harvard School of Public Health
    Ken Pargament, Bowling Green University
    Christina Puchalski, George Washington University
    Daniel Sulmasy, University of Chicago
    Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard School of Public Health 

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  • 2016 Sep 23

    Reviewing the Research: What Do the Data Show about Chaplaincy and Patient Health

    8:30am to 10:45am

    Location: 

    Massachusetts General Hospital; 15 Fruit Street; Sweet Conference Room, Gray/Bigelow building, 4th Flr

    Gathering of Boston Area Chaplains

    Guest Speaker: Christine Mitchell, MDiv
    ScD candidate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast
    9:00 - 10:00 Christine Mitchell
    10:00 - 10:45 Conversation on the future for the Boston area chaplains’ group 

    Limited seating: RSVP by Friday, September, 14th to...

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  • 2015 Oct 01

    Mass General Hospital Surgery Grand Rounds: Is there a role for spirituality in surgical practice?

    8:30am to 9:30am

    Location: 

    Bigelow Amphitheater, Massachusetts General Hospital, White Building, 4th Floor

    John L. Tarpley, MD, FWACS, FACS

     Is There a Role for Spirituality in Surgical Practice?

    Tarpley attended undergraduate and medical school at Vanderbilt and trained in surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.  He spent two years at the NCI, Surgery Branch during residency. Tarpley is a “general general” surgeon whose first career (1978-1993) was in a tertiary care mission hospital in Ogbomoso, Nigeria, where he directed the training for general practice house officers and helped establish a nursing school. He served several years at the Loch Raven VA...

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