Acs Research - Theorylab

In this episode we spoke with Aasim Padela, MD, and Mark Lazenby, PhD, APRN, FAAN, about the unique needs and cancer health equity issues of the Muslim American community. Dr. Aasim Padela is an emergency medicine physician, health services researcher, and bioethicist. He’s an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he’s the Director of the Program on Medicine and Religion and Director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine. In his ACS-funded work he’s working with Muslim American communities to increase mammography screening rates. Dr. Mark Lazenby is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Yale University. He is a philosopher of religion and an advanced practice cancer nurse. He’s interested in helping patients with a cancer diagnosis deal with the questions of mortality. 4:00 – (Lazenby) What we have found in our research so far is that Muslim patients don’t feel supported by spiritual care departments or by palliative care teams in their spiritual and religious needs. So they go to look