The University of Pennsylvania’s Twelfth Annual

Spirituality Research Symposium

Spiritual & Religious Dimensions of Aging: Insights from Research

Thursday, May 21, 2009

8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

School of Nursing Auditorium

(418 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

For Information and registration (free), call 215-573-7219

or e-mail natasha.charles@uphs.upenn.edu

Featuring: Harold Koenig, M.D., M.H.Sc., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, is founding Co-Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Koenig has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with 40 books in print or in preparation including The Handbook of Religion & Health; Faith and Mental Health; Spirituality in Patient Care, 2nd edition; and Spirituality & Medicine. 

Moderated by: Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman, Director of Hiddur: The Center for Aging and Judaism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (Wyncote, PA) and editor of the ground-breaking book, Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources, and author of Jewish Visions for Aging: A Professional Guide for Fostering Wholeness.

With a presentation by: Andrew Newberg, M.D., Associate Professor of Radiology and Psychiatry, and Director of the Center for Spirituality and the Mind, University of Pennsylvania. Among Dr. Newberg’s books: Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief; Why We Believe What We Believe; and the newly published How God Changes Your Brain.

Sponsored by: The Penn Center for Spirituality and the Mind, with a Templeton Research Lectureship Grant, The Penn Medicine Department of Pastoral Care and the Penn Geriatric Education Center