Reimagining Medicine

Farr Curlin holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine, including its Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, and in Duke Divinity School, including its Initiative on Theology, Medicine and Culture, where he is working with colleagues to develop a new interdisciplinary community of scholarship and trainin g . Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, he was associate professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Chicago and co-director of the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, where he worked with colleagues from the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and the University of Chicago Divinity School to foster scholarship and discourse regarding the intersection of religion, ethics, and the practice of medicine. An active palliative physician as well, he is particularly concerned with the moral and spiritual dimensions of medical practice and the doctor-patient relationship, and with the moral and professional formation of physicians.

Professor Dayna Matthew serves as a Professor of Law the University of Virginia School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, civil procedure, evidence, and a variety of health law classes. Professor Matthew's book, Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care was published by NYU Press in 2015.

Alyson J. Breisch is president of Breisch Heath Education PLLC, which provides consultation and education in faith community nursing, health ministries, clinical advancement, and nursing leadership. As an educator, Breisch has presented more than 700 lectures, courses, and workshops, including staff development, patient and family education, graduate-level nursing courses, and regional and national continuing education programs. The recipient of the Duke Medical Center’s Friends of Nursing Excellence in Cardiac Nursing Award, she was the first nurse selected as a distinguished lecturer for Duke’s Heart Center Distinguished Lecturer series , where she continued to practice for 16 years and lectured for eight.

Dr. Warren Kinghorn is a psychiatrist whose work centers on the role of religious communities in caring for persons with mental health problems and on ways in which Christians engage practices of modern health care. Jointly appointed within Duke Divinity School and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University Medical Center, he is a staff psychiatrist and clinical teacher at the Durham VA Medical Center. Within the Divinity School, he works closely with students and faculty members interested in exploring the ways in which theology and philosophy might constructively inform Christian engagement with modern medicine and psychiatry. He is also co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative. His current scholarly interests include the moral and theological dimensions of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder, the applicability of virtue theory to the vocational formation of pastors and clinicians, and the contributions of the theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas to contemporary debates about psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric technology, and human flourishing.

Abraham Nussbaum, M.D., M.T.S., is the Chief Educational Officer at at Denver Health and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He earned a master’s degree in Medicine and Theology from Duke Divinity School and is the author of The Pocket Guide to the DSM-5(TM) Diagnostic Exam. His recent book The Finest Traditions of My Calling received national acclaim.

Bob Cutillo (MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons) is a physician for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless in Denver, Colorado, an associate faculty member at Denver Seminary, and an assistant clinical professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has also served as a missionary to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bob currently lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife, Heather, and they have two married children. He is also the author of "Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age" (2016).

Morre Dean, MBA, joined Parker Adventist Hospital as president and chief executive officer in August 2011.  Mr. Dean ensures that the hospital is carrying out its mission of "extending the healing ministry of Christ by caring for those who are ill and by nurturing the health of the people in our communities." Prior to joining Parker Adventist Hospital, Mr. Dean served as president and chief executive officer of Glendale Adventist Medical Center in northern Los Angeles, where one of his proudest accomplishments was the introduction of the "I'm Here for You" customer service program that resulted in a 20 percent increase in patient satisfaction and "likely to recommend" scores. Before that, he served as president and chief executive officer of Walla Walla General Hospital in Washington, and vice president of operations at Porter and Littleton Adventist Hospitals.