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, 2021
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!