Cultural and Religious Perspectives on End-of-Life Care: Diverse Answers to Universal Questions November 1, 2016 @ 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Saint Peter's University Hospital,
Sister Marie de Pazzi Conference Center
254 Easton Ave., New Brunswick, NJ
Keynote Speaker:
Richard Payne, MD,
Professor of Medicine Esther T. Colliflower Professor of Medicine and Divinity, Duke Divinity School Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
Conversation Facilitator:
JoAnne Reifsnyder,
PhD, RN, FAAN Multi-faith Panel:
Buddhist, Coptic Orthodox, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, Roman Catholic
The Conference is free of charge * Limited space available * Contact hours applied for New Brunswick Theological Seminary, in collaboration with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick and Hamilton campuses) and Saint Peter's University Hospital (New Brunswick), will be sponsoring the John Suydam Kuhlthau Bioethics Conference, which will focus on the subject of "dying well," viewed from medical, cultural/psychosocial, and spiritual perspectives. The conference will be held Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. The theme will be "Cultural and Religious Perspectives on End-of-Life Care: Diverse Answers to Universal Questions." To address this topic will be Dr. Richard Payne, Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and Esther Colliflower Professor of Medicine and Divinity at Duke Divinity School. Dr. Payne is an internationally known expert in the areas of pain relief, care for those near death, oncology, and neurology. As our keynote speaker, he will lead us in our discussion of the intersection of medicine, culture, and spirituality. Along with his presentation, there will be a multi-faith panel consisting of a representative from the Buddhist, Coptic Orthodox, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, and Roman Catholic traditions that will provide an in-depth perspective on death and dying from each respective religious/spiritual tradition.
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