Healthcare and Religion Lecture

Alexia M. Torke, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine and Division Head, General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Oregon Health and Sciences University

This lecture will describe the roles that spirituality and religion often play in the serious illness experience of patients and families. It will provide an overview of research including studies of religious and spiritual coping, the effects of religion on decision making and spiritual care intervention studies.

Continuing medical education credit will be available for those in attendance.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies Program, and Palliative and Supportive Institute

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