Schedule
Thursday, June 20
Morning Track I: How Humanities Amplify Our Humanism
7 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
7:45 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks | David Wendell Moller, Ph.D.
8 a.m.
Humanities are the Hormones | Richard Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D
9 a.m.
The Chief Concern of Medicine: Integrating Narrative Knowledge into the Practices of Medicine | Jerry Vannatta, M.D.
10 a.m.
Break and Refreshments
Morning Track II: Deep Within Me: The Personal Struggles of Professional Care Givers
10:15 a.m.
Watching the Lights Go Out: Journeying with Alzheimer’s | David Hilfiker, M.D.
11:15 a.m.
Navigating Self and Illness Panel- A Panel Presentation and Interactive Discussion
Facilitated by: Robert Lyman Potter, M.D., Ph.D., FACP
Panelists: Lawrence Ehren, M.Div., MBA, BBC
Margaret, “Peg” Nelson, MSN, NP, ACHPN
Randall Wright, R.Ph., B.S.
12:15 p.m.
Lunch
Afternoon Track: Caring for the Whole Person: Humanism and Spirituality in an Age of Specialization
1:15 p.m.
Spirituality and Medicine: Listening to the Voice of the Patient | Robert Lyman Potter, M.D., Ph.D. FACP
2:15 p.m.
Does God Want Us to Suffer? Recognizing Theological Models in Health Care | Dane Sommer, D.Min, M.Div., BCC
3:15 p.m.
Break and Refreshments
3:30 p.m.
Spirit-Filled Dying: Mindful Presence, Relationship Centeredness, and Care of the Whole Person | David Wendell Moller, Ph.D.
4:30 p.m.
Healing Sickness Through Healing the Patient | Eric Cassell, M.D., MACP
5:30 p.m.
Poster Session and Reception
Friday, June 21
Recapturing a Practice: Holistic Care, Empathic Partnerships, and Spiritual Support Near the End of Life
7 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
8 a.m.
So Now You Want Us to Get Comfortable With Dying!? | Richard Payne, M.D.
9 a.m.
Game Change: Recovering the Sacredness of Dying in the Hospital | Margaret, “Peg” Nelson, MSN, NP, ACHPN
10 a.m.
Break and Refreshments
10:15 a.m.
The Enduring Impact of Pediatric Death: A Role for Ethics and Empathy | Brian Carter, M.D.
11:15 a.m.
Spirituality and Humanism in Caring for the Whole Person: An Interactive Wrap-up Session | Lawrence Ehren, M.Div., MBA, BBC
12:15 p.m.
Adjourn (No lunch)
Richard B. Gunderman, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Gunderman is a professor of radiology, pediatrics, medical education, philosophy, liberal arts, and philanthropy at Indiana University, where he also serves as vice chair of radiology. He is also a Fellow of the Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence and serves on the Board of Governors of the Institute for Advanced Study, the Kinsey Institute and the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society. He received his bachelors' degree summa cum laude from Wabash College, Md., and his Ph.D. in Committee on Social Thought from the University of Chicago, and a masters in public health (MPH) degree from Indiana University. He is an eight-time recipient of the Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, and has also received the Wayne Booth Award, the Robert Shellhamer Award for the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the School of Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial All-University Award for Teaching Excellence. He was named the 2008 Outstanding Educator by the Radiological Society of North America. He is the author of over 280 scholarly articles and has published eight books, including "Achieving Excellence in Medical Education" (Springer, 2008), "We Make a Life by What We Give" (Indiana University, 2008), and "Leadership in Healthcare" (Springer, 2009). He is president-elect of the faculty at Indiana University School of Medicine. He and his wife, Laura, have four children.
Jerry B. Vannatta, M.D.
Dr. Vannatta is a David Ross Boyd professor of medicine and the John Flack Burton professor of humanities in medicine and an adjunct member of the Honors College faculty at the University of Oklahoma. He has been a member of the department of medicine since July 1979. From 1995–2002, Dr. Vannatta served the multiple roles of executive dean, College of Medicine, associate provost for medical affairs and vice-president for health affairs at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He is a graduate of Oklahoma City University and the Oklahoma College of Medicine and has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from both institutions. Dr. Vannatta completed his residency in internal medicine at the Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1979, serving his last year as chief medical resident. Dr. Vannatta has practiced internal medicine in the Oklahoma City community for approximately 30 years. He teaches in the undergraduate curriculum of the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. He also teaches literature and medicine in the medical school, along with evidence-based medicine for medical students and the residency programs. In addition to his teaching positions at the Oklahoma College of Medicine, he served from 1979 to 1995 as director of medical education at Presbyterian Hospital. The recipient of numerous awards for teaching and administration in medical education, Dr. Vannatta is published in medical journals, including a DVD, "Medicine and Humanistic Understanding: The Significance of Literature in Medical Practice" that is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
David Hilfiker, M.D.
Dr. Hilfiker was trained as a family practitioner and spent seven years in a rural Minnesota clinic as a “country doctor” and ten years in at Community of Hope Health Services, an inner-city clinic in Washington DC. He and his family lived for five years at Christ House, a 34-bed medical recovery shelter for homeless men, where he was one of the founders. In 1990, he left Christ House to found Joseph’s House, an eleven-bed home and community for formerly homeless men with AIDS, in Washington, where he and his family lived until 1993.
Richard Payne, M.D.
Dr. Payne is the John B. Francis chair in bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, Mo., and the Esther Colliflower professor of medicine and divinity at Duke Divinity School, Duke University. He holds a joint appointment in the Divinity and Medical Schools at Duke University. At the Duke Medical Center, he is a faculty associate of the Trent Center in Bioethics, and a member of the Duke Cancer Center. Dr. Payne is also faculty lead for the Collaborative on Healthcare for Aging Populations and Advanced Illnesses (CHAPI), a program in the Duke Fuqua School of Business. At the Duke Divinity School, Dr. Payne was director of the Duke Institute for Care at the End of Life (2004-2012), and is currently a member of the Ministry Division and Program in Medicine, Theology and Culture. He teaches courses in pastoral care during the end of life. Dr. Payne received his bachelor of arts in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University in 1973, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1977. He completed his post-graduate training in medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston in 1979; in neurology at the Cornell Campus of the New York Presbyterian Hospital in 1982; and fellowship training in pharmacology, neuro-oncology and pain medicine at Weill Cornell Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City in 1984. He was a fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Medical Faculty Development Program (now called The Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, 1981-1984). He is board certified in neurology with added qualifications in pain management and palliative medicine. Dr. Payne is an internationally known expert in neurology, oncology, pain management and palliative care, and bioethics, and has more than 275 publications in these fields. He has also edited four books and has given a number of endowed lectures, including the Jules Rominger Lecture (Mercy Health System, Philadelphia); Florence M. Lockhart Nimick Lectur, Univ. Pittsburgh Medical Center; Humphrey Oei Distinguished Lecture at the Lien Palliative Care Center-National Cancer Institute in Singapore; Josephina Magno Lecture at Capital Hospice; and Rosemary Flanagan Lecture at the the Center for Practical Bioethics. Among his many awards are the Distinguished Service Award from the American Pain Society, the John J. Bonica Leadership Award from the Eastern Pain Association, the Humanitarian Service Award from the Urban Resources Institute, the Pioneer Award from Operation Rainbow/PUSH, the Excellence in Pain Award from Janssen Pharmaceutical, and the Vision to Action Award from the Center for Practical Bioethics in 2013.
Dane R. Sommer, D.Min.
The Rev. Dr. Sommer has been the director of chaplaincy services at Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Mo., since 1987. Dr. Sommer was the first full-time chaplain at Children’s Mercy. The department of chaplaincy services now includes seven full-time and four part-time chaplains. He received his bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and religion at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and his master of divinity degree from the United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, Minn. He received his doctor of ministry from Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Mo., completing a qualitative research project entitled “How is a Board Certified Chaplain in the Association for Professional Chaplains?", and has full standing in the United Church of Christ. Dr. Sommer was the founder and first president of the Pediatric Chaplains Network, an organization designed for support of the unique needs of chaplains who work in pediatrics. He also serves as the assistant director of bioethics policy and practice at Children’s Mercy. He is a member of the national UNOS Ethics Committee. He is a frequent lecturer on the theological and spiritual issues of working with hospitalized children. His most recent focus has been on the issue of suffering and evil.
David W. Moller, Ph.D.
Dr. Moller, professor and chair of bioethics, earned a doctorate in sociomedical sciences in 1983 from Columbia University’s Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health in New York, N.Y. He has also completed a master of philosophy in sociomedical sciences at Columbia University, a master of arts in sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York, N.Y., and a bachelor of arts in sociology at Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y. Dr. Moller’s teaching interests include end-of-life care, medical humanism, disparities and social justice, and literature, humanities and medicine. “There is growing consensus within academic medicine that training and patient care must be informed with skills in ethical and moral decision-making and concern for the whole person,” says Dr. Moller. “This is where bioethics – broadly defined - comes into play. It enhances skills in the art of medicine and increases competencies in compassion, diverse populations, self-care, empathy, and humanism,” he adds. Dr. Moller has been recognized with the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Indiana University, named among Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and honored with the Outstanding Resident Faculty Award at Indiana University. Dr. Moller has been described as a “distinguished advocate for the dying.” His work on the socio-cultural factors that shape the contemporary experience of mortality has been described as “breaking new ground” and “destined to become a landmark in the death and dying literature.” His most recent work has explored the intersection of dying with urban poverty and has been acclaimed as “remarkable,” “shedding light on a forgotten world” and, “taking us to the often forgotten, impoverished facing death.” Outside of his work, Dr. Moller is an avid New York Yankees fan and enjoys books, films, classical music and theatre.
Brian S. Carter, M.D.
Dr. Carter, a neonatologist, received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, completed his residency at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colo., and his fellowship at the University of Colorado. He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corp until 1996, being honorably discharged as a Lieutenant Colonel. He is an editor and contributing author for one of the leading textbooks in pediatric palliative care, "Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents: A Practical Handbook", and has been involved in the MOMS trial of fetal surgery at Vanderbilt. Dr. Carter has extensive experience, as well as additional education in both ethics, from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, and end-of-life care from EPEC and IPPC.