Past Events

Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 6:00 pm
Rodef Shalom Biblical Garden: Garden Speaker Series

The Tree of “Everybody Knows That” — What the Garden of Eden Narrative Tells Us About the Healing Arts Today


March 14, 2022; Portland, ORegon
Conference on Medicine and Religion

From the Narrow Place I Called to You: The Passover Seder as a Model for Healing


December 7, 2022
University of Pittsburgh Healthcare and Religion Lecture Series

Physician Assisted Suicide
Panel discussion with Dr. Heather Mikes and Dr. Timothy Quill
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October 7, 2021
Allegheny County Medical Society Foundation Virtual Gala

Award ceremony to accept the 2020 Nathaniel Bedford Primary Care Physician Award


August 2, 2021
National Havurah Conference (Virtual)

“In the Image” In the Clinic: Practical Implications of Genesis 1:26-27 for 21st Century Healthcare


March 22, 2021
Conference on Medicine and Religion (Virtual)

“In the Image” In the Clinic: Practical Implications of Genesis 1:26-27 for 21st Century Healthcare


February 11, 2021
UPMC Shadyside Department of Medicine Grand Rounds

Meeting a New Health Challenge Facing the Bhutanese Refugee Community in Pittsburgh: How One Community Health Center is Doing it

Group presentation with Andrea Fox, MD, MPH, Kenneth Thompson, MD, and Kimberley Kurek, CRNP.


December 7, 2020
Ohev Shalom of Bucks County

Life Turned Upside Down: Telemedicine and Healing in the Age of COVID-19


October 22, 2020
Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants Annual Conference

Teaching Clinical Humanism to Physician Assistant Students


September 17, 2020
North American Refugee Health Conference

Meeting a New Health Challenge Facing the Bhutanese Refugee Community in Pittsburgh: How One Community Health Center is Doing it

Panel presentation with Kimberly Kurek, CRNP; Andrea Fox, MD, MPH; Kenneth Thompson, MD; Ashok Gurung, MS.


September 8, 2020
JPros

Recognizing and Responding to Trauma

Text study for fellow professionals in the Jewish community.


February 22, 2020
Ohev Shalom of Bucks County

Guest sermon on “Keep Your Religion IN Medicine”
Lunch and learn program on “Jewish Medical Micro-Ethics”


February 17, 2020
Tree of Life Memorial Lecture to JGrads at the University of Pittsburgh

Recognizing and Responding to Trauma


February 9, 2020
Jewish Federation of Richmond

Keep Your Religion IN Medicine


January 28, 2020
Toastmasters Aspinwall

How I Found My Voice


December 27-28, 2019
Scholar in Residence, Albuquerque, NM (Congregation B’nai Israel)

Shabbat Sparks: Rav Lach Shevet: What L’cha Dodi Can – and Can’t – Teach Us

Seudah Shlishit: Relighting the Lamp: Rededicating Ourselves to a Covenant of Healing

Havdalah & Concert: Original and cover music connected to Healers Who Listen


November 15-17, 2019
Scholar-in-Residence Weekend, Twin Cities (Sholom Home, Beth El Synagogue, Talmud Torah of St. Paul/Hineni and Mayim Rabim)

Closed session for the staff of Sholom Home

D’var Torah: Healing People, Not Patients: Creating Authentic Relationships in Modern Healthcare

Teen Learning Session: Friends as Healers

Following Shabbat Lunch: Three Healers Who Listen

Sunday Text Study: Jewish Medical “Microethics” — The Ideal and the Real


September 5, 2019
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Annual Meeting

Who Heals the Healers?

Panel discussion with Rabbi Shira Stern and Dr. James Young


March 30, 2019
Romemu

Open Book: Burnout or Moral Injury? What Nadav and Avihu Can Teach Us About the Healing Professions


March 18, 2019
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Healing People in Twenty Minutes: How to Be a Human Healer Under Inhuman Conditions


February 21, 2019
Chatham University

Walk Humbly: The Intersection between Healing and Humility


January 27, 2019
Congregation Adat Shalom

Sunday Speaker Series: Healers Who Listen


January 20, 2019
Pikesville, MD

Meet the author event


December 2, 2018
Repair the World

Book Release Party!