Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the president & CEO of Sinai Chicago, will offer examples of how faith-based institutions leverage their shared values to promote solidarity and improve outcomes for underserved populations, offering a model for collaborative, purpose-driven care in today’s complex healthcare landscape.

This lecture will explore how Christian anthropology and interpersonal neurobiology helpfully form us into not only individual care providers but also institutions of shalom, all of which become outposts of goodness and beauty that serve our patients and our communities in the spirit and embodied presence of the kingdom of God.

Dr. Aasim Padela will discuss the foundations of Islamic bioethical discourse based on the various moral sciences of the Islamic tradition. He will further touch upon aspects of the discourse in orienting the audience to its siloed nature. 

Susan Eastman will discuss how Christian thinking is "because-therefore" since God in Christ has entered into the depths of what is humanly unfixable, therefore we can articulate a vision of flourishing that includes even failure and finitude, and acknowledges the mysteries that elude our grasp.