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September & October, 2022 Newsletter

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Lecture/Talk/Presentations

Dr.Padela was featured on The Creative Minority podcast. He discussed Islamic bioethics and the video is available on our YouTube channel.
II&M collaborated with Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia in a conference called "Discourse on Islam and Biomedical Ethics: The Way Forward". Videos of this lecture are available here.
Fatema Mirza of II&M presented at George Mason University in October. She spoke on " the communsessment of the local community where the Be Well Free and Charitable clinic operates." Click here to get more details about her talk.
On Nov 4th, Dr. Padela will be speaking on "The Visibility and Invisibility of Muslim Health Experiences, Needs, Outcomes, & Data. " Click here to register.
On Nov 2nd, Dr.Padela will be speaking in Flint Michigan hosted by the Islamic Medical Association. The topic of discussion will be "Islamic Bioethical Reflections on Medicalized Dying."

II&M welcomes new team members

Sarah Al-Khaifi (Research Scholar)
Raudah Yunus (Research Scholar)

Event Update

We hosted a successful Webinar on October 8th on Advancing Equity for Muslim Physicians in the Healthcare Workforce ." Click here to watch recorded webinar.
We will be launching a Breast Cancer Screening awareness campaign this month and will be showcasing our decade of work in this domain. Help us spread the word!
We are excited to organize a series of seminars titled ‘Fostering Connections between Bioscience and Islam’. This program is designed for Muslim High School students in the US. Read more about it below.

Publications

We just published a case on"Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapies and the Conundrum of “Brain Death”: A Clinical Case at the Intersection of Spiritual and Clinical Care for Muslims." in the Chest. The manuscript uses a clinical case to work through Muslim controversies over brain death and withdrawing life support. Click here to read the article.
A book on Islam and Biomedicine edited by Afifi al-Akiti and Aasim I. Padela is now published and available for purchase here.

Month in Summary

Our team consisting of theologians, scientists and educators will conduct a series of seminars that are specifically designed for Muslim high school students using a multimodal learning approach. We are recruiting Muslim High school students from Chicagoland and Milwaukee Muslim schools. Applications for high school students can be found here. Help us spread the word!
Dr. Padela recently got published in the Chest, "Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapies and the Conundrum of “Brain Death” A Clinical Case at the Intersection of Spiritual and Clinical Care for Muslims". The manuscript uses a clinical case to work through Muslim controversies over brain death and withdrawing life support.
The book on Islam and Biomedicine edited by Afifi al-Akiti and Aasim I. Padela is now published and available for purchase. This book brings together theologians, physicians, and intellectual historians to represent an original, serious, attempt to integrate theological, moral and epistemic frameworks. Further more it provides a holistic approach to lay the foundations for bridging the bodies of knowledge of Islam and biomedicine. This book emerged from an II&M project.
Dr.Padela was featured on The Creative Minority podcast on Islamic bioethics and it was published on our YouTube channel as well.
II&M collaborated with Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia in a conference called "Discourse on Islam and Biomedical Ethics: The Way Forward"
In May, 2022, Dr.Padela spoke on Community Engaged Research in Social Emergency Medicine and Beyond at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting. The video is now available for viewing.
Fatema Mirza of II&M presented at George Mason University in October on "The community needs assessment of the local community where the Be Well Free and Charitable clinic operates." The RN interns shared their methods and data mining sources as they presented their findings. For more details please visit Worry Free Community website.

Webinar on

Advancing Equity for Muslim Physicians in the Healthcare Workforce

Muslim physicians in the US suffer from workplace discrimination directed at their religious identity, and these negative experiences may be increasing.

Comparisons between our two national surveys of Muslim doctors in the US reveal statistically significant changes in that a higher proportion of physicians in 2021 than in 2013 report experiencing religious discrimination over their career course (24% to 53%).
Some other finding of the studies are as follows:-

Muslim physicians are increasingly leaving their jobs due to workplace discrimination.
Muslim physicians increasingly perceive that they have been passed over for professional advancement because of their religious identity.
Participants felt ‘accommodated’ through their own efforts at managing prayer or getting holidays covered by colleagues.
Nearly half of respondents struggled to find time for prayer at work.
In the 2021 study, participants reported symptoms of depression and burnout.

On October 8th, 2022 at 11am CST, the Initiative on Islam and Medicine (II&M) in concert with the Tanenbaum Center for Inter religious Understanding and American Muslim Health Professionals co-hosted a webinar titled “Advancing Equity for Muslim Physicians in the Healthcare Workforce”. The webinar was built upon a decade of II&M’s research.

A Once-in-a-lifetime Opportunity for Muslim high school seniors!

II&M in collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and several other organizations across the globe will be organizing a series of seminars titled ‘Fostering Connections between Bioscience and Islam’. This program is specifically designed for Muslim High School Seniors in the US.

Details about the program and instructions on how to apply are available here

Application deadline: November 28, 2022

Please spread the word so more students can benefit!

Raudah Yunus

Raudah Yunus is a researcher, writer and social activist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and currently pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Raudah is currently working on a project that involves educating Muslim high school students on Bioscience and Theology. You can read more about this project here on our website.

Sarah Al- Khaifi

Sarah Alkhaifi is an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, and a certified women’s heath nurse practitioner. She holds a PhD degree in nursing from the University of California Los Angeles, a master’s degree in women’s health from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. She holds a diploma in academic English writing from UCLA. She is currently in charge of a project (A Religiously-Tailored Mammography Intervention for American Muslims) at II&M that resulted in tools, that can reduce disparities in breast cancer screenings among Muslim Women in the USA. You can read more about this decade long project here.

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