SPEAKERS
Course Director:
Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc
Director, the Initiative on Islam & Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Faculty, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
The University of Chicago
ACCOMMODATIONS
For ease of transportation, we would recommend the
La Quinta Inn & Suites, 4900A South Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, IL 60615. Rooms have been blocked under
“Islamic Bioethics” at a discounted rate of $169 per
night. This rate is available only until April 21, or until
fully booked.
Faculty:
Dissecting
the Ethics
of Organ
Donation:
Ahsan Arozullah, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Astellas Pharma Global Development
Senior Student and Board of Directors, Darul Qasim
Islamic Institute
Susan Cochran, MA
Media Relations and Family Support Services, Gift of
Hope, Chicago
Issam Eido, PhD
Visiting instructor of Islamic studies and Arabic,
The University of Chicago Divinity School
Obadah Ghannam, MBBS, BSc
Trustee & Head of Research, Centre for Islam and
Medicine, UK
Honorary Research Fellow, Division of Health Sciences,
University of Warwick
Elham Mireshghi
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology,
University of California, Irvine
Shaykh Omar Qureshi
Principal, Islamic Foundation School
PhD Candidate, Loyola University Chicago
Shoaib Rasheed
DO Candidate, West Virginia School of Osteopathic
Medicine
Post-graduate Trainee, Initiative on Islam & Medicine,
The University of Chicago
Mark Siegler, MD
Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of
Medicine and Surgery
The University of Chicago
The Initiative on Islam and Medicine
The University of Chicago
The Initiative on Islam and Medicine (II&M) produces
path-breaking scholarship that impacts the lives and
experiences of Muslim patients, healthcare providers
and religious leaders, with a primary focus on the
American context using an innovative approach that
convenes and draws insights from a diverse set of disciplinary experts from across the theological, social, and
human sciences.
The overarching goals of the II&M are to:
1) Provide intellectual resources to assist Muslim patients, clinicians, chaplains and Imams engage faithfully with modern medicine. The II&M utilizes a unique
approach that both describes the discursive and methodological gaps in Islamic ethico-legal judgments and
works together with Islamic scholars to establish theologically-rooted normative goals for Islamic bioethics.
2) Improve the health of American Muslims by assessing how American Muslim patients’ health behaviors and healthcare experiences are shaped by their
faith, and mobilizing that knowledge towards the development of evidence-based and culturally-tailored
health interventions and policies.
2nd Annual
Islamic
Bioethics
Workshop
June 5-7, 2015
What is This Workshop All
about?...
Hosted by the Initiative on Islam & Medicine within the Program on Medicine
and Religion at the
University of Chicago,
and co-sponsored by
the American Islamic
College, this 3-day
workshop provides an
in-depth conceptual
introduction to the
field of Islamic bioethics and will examine
the practical and theological ethics of organ donation in Muslim contexts and from
an Islamic perspective. As we cover key
concepts within Islamic theology, law and ethical
frameworks as they relate to bioethics, participants
will gain skills that enable them to read Islamic bioethics literature and engage in moral reasoning about
clinical ethics cases.
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Allied health professionals & trainees
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Chaplains
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Religious leaders
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Ethics professionals
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Scholars and researchers
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All others interested in Islamic bioethics
Learning Objectives:
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Identify the major sources of Islamic normativity with respect to the nascent field of Islamic
bioethics
Discuss critical concepts of Islamic theology
and doctrinal positions that underpin Islamic
moral frameworks
Describe the Islamic ethico-legal perspectives
on the permissibility of organ donation and
transplantation
Review the extant literature regarding Muslim
attitudes and behaviors with respect to organ
donation
REGISTRATION
Course Fees: (Workshop fees cover educational materials,
refreshments, and lunch)
Questions? Please email
[email protected]
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Who should attend?
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Physician with CME*-$350
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Physician with CME (one-day rate)-$135
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Allied health and other professional-$175
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Allied health and other professional (one-day
rate)-$75
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Student-$125
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Student (one-day rate)-$50
* Approval for CME credit hours from the Physicians
of Pakistani Descent of North America (APPNA) is
pending. Please check back for more information.
Registration: pmr.uchicago.edu/iim-bioethics2015
Friday, June 5th 2015
9:00-10:15 am
The Actors and Material of
“Islamic” Bioethics
Dr. Aasim Padela
10:30-11:30 pm
Constructing an “Islamic”
Bioethics? Critical concepts
from theology and law
Dr. Aasim Padela
11:40-12:40 pm
Islamic Ethics: From Fiqh to
Tasawwuf
Prof. Issam Eido
12:45-1:45 pm
2:00-3:00pm
Network Lunch/Jummah Break
Health Risk Assessments:
Examining the Reasoning
Exercises of Medical Experts
and Islamic Legists
Sh. Omar Qureshi
SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH 2015
The Process and Procedures of
Organ Donation & Transplant
Susan Cochran
10:15-11:15 pm
Ethical Issues in Living Organ
Donor Transplant
Dr. Mark Siegler
11:20-12:20 pm
Islamic Legal Views on Organ
Donation: A View from Fiqh
Councils
Dr. Obadah
Ghannam
12:20-1:00 pm
Shia Opinions Regarding
Organ Donation & Transplant
Elham Mireshghi
1:15-2:30 pm
Workshop Participant: Facilitated Networking Session
(Lunch provided)
9-10:00am
2:30-3:30 pm
Muslim Medical Ethics, Fatwas
and the Diversity of Ulama
Dr. Aasim Padela
and Shoaib Rasheed
3:35-4:30 pm
The Contexts of Organ Donation– Insights from Anthropological Research
Elham Mireshghi
SUNDAY, JUNE 7TH 2015
9-10:15 am
The Role of Muslim Physicians
in Islamic Bioethics Discourse
10:30-11:30 pm
Applied Islamic Bioethics: Facilitated Case Discussions
Mireshgi (Lunch provided)
11:40--12:40 pm
Wrap-up Session/Conceptual
Review and Feedback
Dr. Ahsan Arozullah
Dr. Aasim Padela