Ronald C. Hamdy, MD
Dr. Hamdy Chair for the Conference is Professor of Internal Medicine and holder of the Cecile Cox Quillen Chair of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, and is also Director of the Osteoporosis Center at East Tennessee State University. In 1988, he was appointed Chief of Staff for Extended Care at the VA Medical Center in Johnson City, Tennessee. He is Past-President of the Southern Medical Association, and is the Editor of Southern Medical Journal. He is actively involved in research and practices at University Physicians Practice Group in Johnson City. He has published four books, written more than 100 articles in medical journals, and numerous chapters in medical texts.
Faculty
Farr A. Curlin, MD
Dr. Curlin recently completed a fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. His research centers on the intersection of religion and medicine. He is currently conducting a national study of physicians' religious characteristics and their approaches to religious behavior and dialogue as experienced in the clinical encounter. Dr. Curlin is also interested in the place of the religious voice in public ethical discourse and in the place of faith-based health centers in promoting health in poor urban communities.
Robert DuRant, PhD
Dr. DuRant is Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics and Professor of Public Health Sciences at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Prior to this, he was Co-Chief of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Children's Hospital in Boston, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health and in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His current research centers on the initiation and prevention of tobacco, alcohol and other substance use by young adolescents. Dr. DuRant has published 159 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has conducted research and education in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
James Hanvey, SJ, PhD
Dr. Hanvey is currently the Director of the Heythrop Institutes for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. He also holds the Veale Chair in Ignatian Spirituality at the Milltown Institutes, Dublin (2004-2006). After receiving his doctorate from Oxford he was appointed headmaster at Saint Aloysius' College HMC, Glasgow. He has been a visiting scholar at Weston Jesuit Theological College, Cambridge Massachusetts and working in the leadership seminars at the John F. Kennedy Schools of Government, Harvard University.
Robert A. Kidd, MDiv, BCC
Chaplain Kidd is endorsed by the Alliance of Baptists and was Board Certified in 1989. He has worked extensively within Association of Professional Chaplains serving as South Texas State Representative, Secretary to the Board, Chair of the Information Technology Committee and, most recently, as Chair of the Communications and Publications Council. Chaplain Kidd is the current President of the Association of Professional Chaplains and a Senior Staff Chaplain at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Currently one of the heart care chaplains at Methodist, he has also served within the hospital’s oncology and psychiatry services. His writings have appeared in Chaplaincy Today as well as The Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling.
Harold G. Koenig, MD, MHSc
Dr. Koenig is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University. Dr. Koenig is co-director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center, and has published extensively in peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and books in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion. He is editor of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, and founder and editor in chief of Science and Theology News.
John R. Peteet, MD
Dr. Peteet is Clinical Director (Psychiatry), Division of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Harvard University. Dr. Peteet is a member of the American Psychiatric Association currently serving as Chair of Corresponding Committee on Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry. He has a longstanding interest in addiction psychiatry, the psychosocial aspects of oncology, and spirituality and health. Dr. Peteet is well published with numerous original articles, book chapters, and reviews including co-editor of A Handbook of Spirituality and World View in Clinical Practice.
Faculty's Disclosure of Commercial Relationships
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standards for Commercial Support approved in September 2004 require that the provider (Southern Medical Association) show that anyone who is in a position to control the content of education activity has disclosed all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest to the provider. A relevant relationship is defined as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past twelve months that create a personal conflict of interest. The disclosure must include the name of the individual, the name of the commercial interest and the nature of the relationship. Individuals with "no" relevant financial relationship(s) must also disclose to the learner prior to the activity. Any individual involved in planning CME Activities who does not comply with this policy will not be permitted to have control of, or responsibility for, the development, management, or evaluation of SMA's CME Activity. Resolution of conflict interested is conducted during the review process. Disclosures will be noted on a slide at the beginning of each lecture and in the syllabus.
