Join us for a weekend of stimulating lectures and fellowship at the 2024 Northeast Ohio CMDA Fall Retreat! This retreat is an annual event that equips you with high-quality instruction on culturally relevant topics. We will review and highlight the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed and the nature of medicine as a practice and health as its endpoint, including the doctor-patient relationship as well as a number of clinical and ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. We introduce a path away from the provider of medicine model as well as resources to resist the cultural, institutional and political forces that are bent on removing the joy from our calling.
Our speaker for the weekend, Christopher Tollefsen, PhD, has written multiple books and essays exploring ethical issues facing Christians, and most recently he co-authored, with Farr Curlin, MD, The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession. Dr Tollefsen is a distinguished professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina.
Registration covers all meals and meetings on Friday evening through Saturday late afternoon.
Medical professionals: $100 per person
Healthcare students: $25 per person
Student Scholarships are available; please contact NEOCMDA Chair, Philip Bernard for details ([email protected])
There is no discount for partial attendance.
We will be meeting at Grace Church – Middleburg Heights, OH
Meals are included in the registration fee. Lodging is not available.
Christopher Tollefsen, PhD is distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He received his PhD at Emory University in 1995 and had two year-long fellowships at the James Madison Program at Princeton University, as well as a visiting fellowship at the Eudaimonia Institute at Wake Forest University. He works broadly in Christian Ethics and has written and edited a number of books, including The Way of Medicine: Ethics and the Healing Profession (2021, with Farr Curlin), Natural Law Ethics in Theory and Practice: A Joseph Boyle Reader (2020, co-edited with John Liptay), and Lying and Christian Ethics (2014).
| Friday, October 11 | |
| 5:00 pm | Check-in |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm | First Plenary, Christopher Tollefsen, PhD |
| Saturday, October 12 | |
| 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Second Plenary, Christopher Tollefsen, PhD |
| 9:45 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:00 am | Third Plenary, Christopher Tollefsen, PhD |
| 11:15 am | Breakout Discussion |
| 12:15 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm | Fourth Plenary, Christopher Tollefsen, PhD |
| 3:00 pm | Breakout Discussion |
| 4:00 pm | Possible additional discussion on “The Role of Conscience” |
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