University of Chicago Program on Medicine and Religion

University of Chicago Program on Medicine and Religion Promoting scholarship and discourse regarding medicine and religion Follow us on instagram: programmedicinereligion
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The Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago is a leading forum for scholarship and discourse at the intersection of medicine and religion. Despite ample evidence that religious faith often animates clinicians’ practices and that patients’ experiences of illness are often mediated by faith, the relationship between medicine and religion is rarely studied. The Program on Medici

ne and Religion aims to fill this gap by conducting rigorous empirical, historical, theological, ethical, and legal scholarship to enrich our understanding of the meaning of illness and the myriad ways that religion and medicine both respond to the human predicaments of illness, injury, disability, suffering, and death.

Time/Date: 6-8pm on Thursday, April 23 (doors open at 5:30).Location: International House Assembly Hall
04/13/2026

Time/Date: 6-8pm on Thursday, April 23 (doors open at 5:30).
Location: International House Assembly Hall

https://community.hippsoc.org/submit-an-abstract
01/28/2026

https://community.hippsoc.org/submit-an-abstract

Burnout, moral distress, workforce shortages, institutional pressures, financial conflicts of interest, intractable pain, uncertain diagnoses… many forces in healthcare today feel overwhelming. Against such challenges, individual action can seem futile.

10/31/2025
https://ccg.fas.harvard.edu/conference-pages/christianity-and-ai
10/08/2025

https://ccg.fas.harvard.edu/conference-pages/christianity-and-ai

As artificial intelligence (AI) encroaches on every dimension of human experience—from how we work and learn to how we connect and make decisions—Christian communities face urgent questions about what it means to flourish as human beings created in God’s image. The rapid advancement and deploy...

Welcome Dr. Constantine 'Kosti' Psimopoulos to the University of Chicago's Program on Medicine and Religion! Dr. Constan...
09/17/2025

Welcome Dr. Constantine 'Kosti' Psimopoulos to the University of Chicago's Program on Medicine and Religion!

Dr. Constantine ‘Kosti’ Psimopoulos is Visiting Scholar of Medicine (starting 10/1/2025) and Co-Director of the Program of Medicine and Religion (2025-2026) at the University of Chicago, spending one year with the Program away from his current position at Harvard University. As a Visiting Scholar, he will pursue scholarship with Dr. Yoon at the intersection of emerging technologies (AI), spirituality and healing in medicine, and public health ethics. While Dr. Psimopoulos is engaging in these scholarly activities, as Co-Director of the Program he will also collaborate with Dr. Yoon in co-directing various co- sponsored events with the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Program on Medicine and Religion on topics related to classical philosophical explorations into human flourishing, AI and public health ethics, as well as spirituality/religion in medicine.

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