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This conference gathers leading scholars of Judaism and medicine to consider how best to introduce traditional Jewish scholarship regarding medicine to health care professionals, and particularly physicians-in-training. What is the current state of the study of Judaism and medicine among health care professionals? How can the moral and intellectual traditions of Judaism more significantly shape the formation of physicians and other health care professionals? What are the current models for passing the tradition on to the next generation of clinicians? How can those models be improved and best practices be disseminated?

This conference aims to address these questions through brief presentations, panel sessions, and small group discussions. Participants will describe current literacy regarding Judaism and medicine among Jewish and non-Jewish clinicians, identify promising strategies for educating medical professionals about Jewish law and ethics—and the core subjects of such curricula, and identify obstacles to and opportunities for bringing about greater study of this subject among medical professionals. In so doing, participants will also consider how the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago can foster greater scholarship and study of the Jewish tradition regarding the practice of medicine and the experience of illness, within academic medicine in the United States.

Confirmed Speakers:

Avraham Steinberg, MD

Kenneth Prager, MD, FACP

Azgad Gold, MD

Shimon Glick, MD

Benjamin Gesundheit, MD, PhD

Daniel Eisenberg, MD

Baruch Brody, PhD

Rabbi Yossi Brackman

Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation