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*Breaking Bread: Faith, Fellowship, Medicine, and Science. We are seeking faculty members to serve as ambassadors at medical or scientific conferences that they attend each year. They will serve as a lead to host a fellowship coffee or lunch event to further the reach of CAPS and facilitate scholarly collaborations. CAPS will reimburse for the cost of the event. Please send an email to [email protected] and Kalon Ho, MD, MSc ([email protected])

*Request for Application – CAPS Faith & Medicine Research Fellowship Award. CAPS will provide financial support for one faculty member to attend the Annual Course on Religion, Spirituality and Health, a 5-day research workshop at Duke’s Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health in 2025. The funded faculty member will be expected to (1) present their research results in a 2026 CAPS webinar, and (2) submit a manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal. Please email [email protected] for additional information. Applications are due May 1, 2025 (11:59pm local time). Funding decisions will be available by June 1, 2025.

*Scholarship and Innovation Writing Lab. Led by Benjamin Doolittle, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Yale. The group meets every 4-6 weeks to share projects and receive feedback on scholarly work. Please contact Dr. Larson for information ([email protected])

 

*Real Physicians, Real Faith. Book co-edited by Drs. David Larson and Benjamin Doolittle as a product of the Scholarship and Innovation Writing Lab. Will be available for purchase soon!!!

WEBINAR SERIES 2025

** A Christian’s Walk in Academic Medicine will not be available as a recording. All webinars will be on Wednesdays at 5pm PT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET

January 22, 2025

“A Christian’s Walk in Academic Medicine”

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Speaker Bio: Robert Hunsaker, MD

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Speaker Bio: Andetta (Andi) Hunsaker, MD

Kalon Ho, MD, MSc, is currently the Treasurer of the Christian Academic Physicians and Scientists (CAPS) Section of CMDA. A graduate of the University of California at San Diego, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and the Harvard School of Public Health, he is a member of the Interventional Cardiology Section at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston and the Medical Director for Quality for the Cardiovascular Division at the BIDMC. He has taught clinical epidemiology at HMS for nearly 25 years and specializes in complex hemodynamic studies in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. He has published on the epidemiology of heart failure, overseen clinical trials in interventional cardiology, evaluated the effects of public reporting of outcomes of coronary revascularization, and received awards from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions for designing clinical decision support tools. Kalon has participated in 10 MEI-sponsored medical education mission trips to North Macedonia since 2016.

Moderator: Dr. Kalon Ho, MD, MSc
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February 26, 2025

“Physician-Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia: A Primer for Health Professionals”

Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR, is the Silberberg Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as Co-Director of Clinical Ethics at Columbia’s NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. A practicing internist, she edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death. Dugdale attended medical school at the University of Chicago, completed residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and holds a MAR in ethics from Yale Divinity School.

Speaker Bio: Lydia Dugdale

David Larson, MD retired from his position of 27 years as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  He is Board certified in both Otolaryngology and Plastic Surgery and is the current Chairman of the MEI Advisory Council.

Moderator: David Larson, MD
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Abstract: An overview of what all clinicians should know about physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.

March 26, 2025

“Controversies in Medicine”

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Speaker Bio: Darrell Bock, PhD

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Moderator: TBD
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April 23, 2025

“A Christian’s Walk in Academic Medicine”

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Speaker Bio: Brick Lantz, MD, Duke

David Larson, MD retired from his position of 27 years as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  He is Board certified in both Otolaryngology and Plastic Surgery and is the current Chairman of the MEI Advisory Council.

Moderator: David Larson, MD
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May 15, 2025

“A Christian’s Walk in Academic Medicine”

Jose C Florez, MD, PhD, Physician-in-Chief and Co-Chair, Department of Medicine, MGH; Investigator, Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH; Institute Member, Broad Institute; Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Speaker Bio: Jose C Florez, MD, PhD

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Moderator: TBD
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June 2025

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