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The Initiative on Islam and Medicine (II&M) is a leading research center at the intersection of Islam and Biomedicine. We produce groundbreaking scholarship that impacts the lives of Muslim patients, healthcare providers and religious leaders, using an innovative approach that draws insights from a diverse set of disciplinary experts from across the theological, social, and biomedical sciences.

As a platform for impactful research, tailored education, and creative dialogue, II&M’s focuses on:

About Publications At

At II&M

The Initiative on Islam and Medicine (II&M) is a leading research center at the intersection of Islam and Biomedicine. We produce groundbreaking scholarship that impacts the lives of Muslim patients, healthcare providers and religious leaders, using an innovative approach that draws insights from a diverse set of disciplinary experts from across the theological, social, and biomedical sciences.

As a platform for impactful research, tailored education, and creative dialogue, II&M’s focuses on:

Recent Publications

Exploring Perceptions of Hospice Care in the American Muslim Community: A Qualitative Descriptive Study:

Laila Azam, PhD, MBA, Renee Foutz, MD, and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Considering Islamic Frameworks to Infectious Disease Prevention:

Bilal Irfan, Ahmad Khleif, Jad Badarneh, Jana Abutaqa, Ali Allam, Shueib Kweis, Basel Tarab, Abdallah Abu Shammala, Elias Nasser, Sameeha Shweiki, Muaaz Wajahath, and Aasim Padela.

Alcohol and the Medical Community: A Cocktail for Exclusion:

Luqman M. Ellythy, Ian M. Michecl, Elizabeth K. Faroukh, and Aasim I. Padela.

A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis of Sleep Hygiene Implementation and its Effect on Sleep Quality and Fatigue in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis:

Hesti Fathan, Nurfais Fauziah, Erna Rochmawati, and Aasim I. Padela.

Religious Identity-Based Discrimination in the Physician Workforce: Findings from a Survey of Muslim Physicians in the UK.

Laila Azam, Sohad Murrar, Usman Maravia, Omar Davila, Aasim I Padela.

Associations Between Everyday and Medical Setting-Based Discrimination and Religious and Sociodemographic Characteristics of Muslim Americans: Findings from a National Survey.

Aasim I. Padela, Ummesalmah Abdulbaseer, Sondos Al Sad, Fatima Alemam & Maleeha Afreen.

Muslim Patients' Religious & Spiritual Resource Needs in US Hospitals: Findings from a National Survey.

Ummesalmah, Abdulbaseer MD, Natasha Piracha MD, Mohamed Hamouda MD, Iman Farajallah PsyD, Samsiah Abdul-Majid MA, Shareif Abdelwahab JD, Warren K. Teltser MSc & Aasim I. Padela MD MSc.

Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria:

Aasim I. Padela & Mehrunisha Suleman.

Interests and Choices in Determining Death by Neurological Criteria:

Aasim I. Padela.

Muslims and End-of-Life Healthcare in Non-Muslim Majority Nations: A Systematic Literature Review.

Natasha Z. Piracha, MD, Lauren B. Nickel, PhD, Aﬁya Quryshi, Ramy Salah, MD, and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Relationships Between Religious Commitment, Workplace Experiences, and Professional and Psychological Outcomes Among U.S. Muslim Physicians.

Sohad Murrar, PhD, Laila Azam, PhD, MBA, Benish Baqai , Omar Davila, MPH , and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Relationships between Religiosity, Workplace xperiences, and Professional and Psychological Outcomes among Muslim American Physicians.

Aasim I. Padela.

Organ Donation and the Dead Donor Rule: A Synopsis of Pressing Ethical Controversies and Practical Questions.

Hira G. Nasir, and Aasim I. Padela.

Tackling ‘Big’ Questions at the Bioscience-Islam Interface: Reporting on the Efficacy of an Educational Programme Designed for Muslim High School Students.

Raudah M. Yunus, Aasim I. Padela, Shaza Khan & Mohd Yusof Mohamad.

Past Publications

A Religious Minority Tax in Healthcare? Insights from Muslim American Physicians:

Murrar S., Azam L. & Padela A.I.

Muslim American Physicians' Experiences with, and Views on, Religious Discrimination and Accommodation in Academic Medicine.

Aasim I. Padela MD, MSc, Laila Azam PhD, MBA, Sohad Murrar PhD, Benish Baqai BS.

Religious Identity Discrimination in the Physician Workforce: Insights from Two National Studies of Muslim Clinicians in the US.

Benish Baqai, BS, Laila Azam, PhD, MBA , Omar Davila, MPH , Sohad Murrar, PhD , and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Career Satisfaction and Burnout among American Muslim Physicians:

Sondos Al Sad, Aasim I. Padela.

An Ethico-Legal Analysis of Artificial Womb Technology and Extracorporeal Gestation Based on Islamic Legal Maxims:

Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin, Alexis Heng Boon Chin and Aasim Ilyas Padela.

A Pilot Efficacy Trial to Educate Muslim Americans about the Islamic Bioethical Perspectives in End-of-Life Healthcare:

Milda Saunders, Michael Quinn, Rosie Duivenbode, Lindsay Zasadzinski and Aasim I. Padela.

American Muslim Engagement With Advance Care Planning- Insights From a Community Survey:

Raudah M. Yunus, Dr PH, Rosie Duivenbode, MD, MSc, and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Methodological and Discursive Considerations for Islamic Bioethics Research and Writing:

Aasim I. Padela.

"I'm not Alone; He will be There for Me": A Mixed-Method Approach Exploring the Impact of Spousal Support on Mammogram Utilization and Health Beliefs:

Sarah Alkhaif, and Aasim I. Padela.

Patient Navigation Based Care-delivery to Reduce Inequities in Cancer Care Among Immigrants and Refugees: A Commentary on the Successes and the Unmet Needs:

Sailaja Kamaraju, MD, MS, Janette Merrill, MS, James Wu, MD , Sanford Jeames, DHA, Meghan Conroy, BS, Heun Min, BS, Miracle Powell, BS, Aasim Padela, MD, MSc.

Complexities of biomedicine, theology and politics in Islamic bioethical deliberation over female genital procedures: a reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder:

Aasim I. Padela.

The Impact of Practicing Both Medicine and Religion: Muslim Identity as a Predictor of Discrimination, Accommodation, and Career Outcomes in Academic Medicine.

Sohad Murrar, PhD, Laila Azam, PhD, MBA, Omar Davila, MPH, Benish Baqai, and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Muslims, Islam, and Organ Donation: Righting Social Narratives and Designing Ethically Balanced Educational Interventions.

Aasim I. Padela, Mohammad Titi, Aliyah Keval, and Mohamed T. Abdelrahim.

Increasing Solid Organ Donation: A Role for Emergency Physicians.

Kenneth V. Iserson, Raquel M. Schears, Aasim I. Padela, Eileen F. Baker, and John C. Moskop.

Cancer Screening Differences Among Muslims and Non-Muslims: Insights from the Chicago Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study:

Sailaja Kamaraju, MD, MS, Janette Merrill, MS, James Wu, MD , Sanford Jeames, DHA, Meghan Conroy, BS, Heun Min, BS, Miracle Powell, BS, Aasim Padela, MD, MSc.

Engaging Muslim Americans for Research on Community Health: Lessons Learned from a PCOR Capacity-Building Program.

Stephen Hall, Aasim I. Padela, Fatema Mirza, Adel Syed, Yasser Aman, & Haaris Ahmad.

Porcine‐derived medical therapies for SARS‐CoV:

Aasim I. Padela.

Cross-Cultural and Religious Critiques of Informed Consent:

Aasim I. Padela.

Muslim Americans' Views on Making Organ Donation Decisions in the Department of Motor Vehicles Setting:

Aasim I. Padela.

Muslim Doctors and Islamic Bioethics:

Aasim I. Padela.

Jurists, Physicians, & Other Experts in Dialogue:

Aasim I. Padela.

Islamic Juridical Principle of Dire Necessity & Its Application to the Field of Biomedical Interventions:

Aasim I. Padela.

Bioethical Insights from the Fiqh Council of North America's Recent Ruling on Medical Cannabis:

Aasim I. Padela.

Abortion in Hanafi Law:

Aasim I. Padela.

Bioethical Insights from the Fiqh Council of North America's Recent Ruling on Medical Cannabis:

Aasim I. Padela.

Traditional Healing Practices Among AMs Perceptions Of Community Leaders In SEMICH:

Aasim I. Padela.

Incorporating Religion into the Health Disparities Narrative:

Noreen Syed, Stephen Hall, Aasim I. Padela, Christina Jarema, Adel Syed, Fatema Mirza And Yasser Aman.

A Mosque-Based Qualitative Study on American Muslim Women’s Organ Donation Beliefs:

Rosie Duivenbode, MD, MSc, Stephen Hall, MPH, and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Informing American Muslims about Living Donation Through Tailored Health Education: A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Trial Evaluating Increase in Biomedical and Religious Knowledge.

Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, Rosie Duivenbode, MD, MSc, Michael Quinn, PhD, Milda R. Saunders, MD, MPH.

The Development and Validation of the Islamic Knowledge of Living Organ Donation Knowledge Scale for Measuring Organ Donation Knowledge Among Muslim Communities:

Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, Rosie Duivenbode, MD, MSc, and Michael Quinn, PhD.

The Impact of Religiously Tailored and Ethically Balanced Education on Intention for Living Organ Donation among Muslim Americans:

Aasim I. Padela, Rosie Duivenbode, Milda R. Saunders, Michael Quinn, and Elizabeth Koh.

Islamic Bioethical Positions on Organ Donation and Transplantation: Stressing Rigor and Caution in Fatwa Reviews.

Aasim I. Padela.

Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Gender Identity for Intersex Patients:

Aasim I. Padela.

The Impact of Religiously Tailored and Ethically Balanced Education on Intention for Living Organ Donation among Muslim Americans:

Aasim I. Padela, Rosie Duivenbode, Milda R. Saunders, Michael Quinn, and Elizabeth Koh.

Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Gender Identity for Intersex Patients:

Aasim I. Padela.

Islamic Bioethical Positions on Organ Donation and Transplantation: Stressing Rigor and Caution in Fatwa Reviews.

Aasim I. Padela.

ADD KNOW-ledge to your Decision: Making Don't Know ASK Do Practical Guideline 4 Ethical Clinical Decision-Making in Scenarios with Scarce Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Aasim I. Padela.

Allied Muslim Healthcare Professional Perspectives on Death by Neurologic Criteria:

Aasim I. Padela.

Designing academic career trajectories: identifying internal assets and evaluating external challenges.

Aasim I. Padela.

Commentary: Religious communities are critical in the fight against COVID-19:

Aasim I. Padela.

FACULTY OF RESPONSIBILITY: A Key Concept to Cope with The Ethical Challenges Medical Students Face.

Aasim I. Padela.

Study protocol for 'Informing American Muslims about Organ Donation (I AM a LD)': A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Trial Evaluating the Effect of Religiously- Tailored Health Education.

Aasim I. Padela, Rosie Duivenbode, Michael Quinn, and Milda R. Saunders.

Study protocol for 'Informing American Muslims about Organ Donation (I AM a LD)': A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Trial Evaluating the Effect of Religiously- Tailored Health Education.

Aasim I. Padela, Rosie Duivenbode, Michael Quinn, and Milda R. Saunders.

Empathy and Attending to Patient Religion/ Spirituality: Findings from a National Survey of Muslim Physicians.

Mohamed A. Hamouda, Linda L. Emanuel and Aasim I. Padela.

Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and the Cultural Boundaries of Medical Practice:

Aasim I. Padela.

Changing Mammography-Related Beliefs Among American Muslim Women: Findings from a Religiously-Tailored Mosque-Based Intervention.

Aasim I. Padela, Sana Malik, Hena Din, Stephen Hall and Michael Quinn.

Assessing Relationships Between Muslim Physicians' Religiosity and End-of-Life Health-Care Attitudes and Treatment Recommendations: An Exploratory National Survey.

Rosie Duivenbode, MD, MSc, Stephen Hall, MPH, and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Empathy and Attending to Patient Religion/ Spirituality: Findings from a National Survey of Muslim Physicians.

Mohamed A. Hamouda, Linda L. Emanuel and Aasim I. Padela.

Genethics and Human Reproduction: Religious Perspectives in the Academic Bioethics Literature.

Aasim I. Padela.

Helping Those You Know - The possibilities of deceased directed donation:

Aasim I. Padela.

Reducing Muslim Mammography Disparities: Outcomes From a Religiously Tailored Mosque-Based Intervention.

Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, Sana Malik, MSW, MPH, DrPH, Syeda Akila Ally, BA, Michael Quinn, PhD, Stephen Hall, MPH, and Monica Peek, MD, MPH, MSc.

Changing Mammography-Related Beliefs Among American Muslim Women: Findings from a Religiously-Tailored Mosque-Based Intervention.

Aasim I. Padela, Sana Malik, Hena Din, Stephen Hall and Michael Quinn.

The Ethics of Organ Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death and Xenotransplantation from an Islamic Perspective:

Aasim I. Padela, and Rosie Duivenbode.

Conceptualizing the Human Being: Insights from the Genethics Discourse and Implications for Islamic Bioethics:

Aasim I. Padela.

Framing the Mind–Body Problem in Contemporary Neuroscientific and Sunni Islamic Theological Discourse:

Aasim I. Padela.

Developing Religiously-Tailored Health Messages for Behavioral Change: Introducing the Reframe, Reprioritize, and Reform ("3R") Model:

Aasim I. Padela, Sana Malik, Milkie Vu, Michael Quinn, and Monica Peek.

Adapting a Religious Health Fatalism Measure for Use in Muslim Populations:

Shaheen Nageeb, Milkie Vu, Sana Malik, Michael T. Quinn, John Cursio, Aasim I. Padela.

The Development and Validation of a Modesty Measure for Diverse Muslim Populations:

Shaheen Nageeb, Milkie Vu, Michael T. Quinn, Aasim I. Padela.

American Muslim Physician Attitudes Toward Organ Donation:

Mustafa Ahmed, Paul Kubilis and Aasim Padela.

Are Emergency Medicine Residents Prepared to Meet the Ethical Challenges of Clinical Practice? Findings from an Exploratory National Survey:

Aasim I. Padela.

Muslim Women's Perspectives on Designing Mosque-Based Women's Health Interventions—An Exploratory Qualitative Study:

Milkie Vu MA, Hadiyah Muhammad MPH, Monica E. Peek MD, MPH, MSc and Aasim I. Padela MD, MSc.

Acceptability of Friday Sermons as a Modality for Health Promotion and Education:

Aasim I. Padela, Sana Malik and Nadia Ahmed.

Developing religiously-tailored health messages for behavioral change: Introducing the reframe, reprioritize, and reform ( " 3R " ) model.

Aasim I. Padela.

Hymenoplasty and Muslim Patients: Islamic Ethico-Legal Perspectives.

Aasim I. Padela.

An Overlooked “Inner” Dimension to an “Islamic” Medical Ethics:

Aasim I. Padela.

Changing Global Policy to Deliver Safe, Equitable, and Affordable Care for Women’s Cancers:

Aasim I. Padela.

Predictors of Delayed Healthcare Seeking Among American Muslim Women:

Milkie Vu, MA, Alia Azmat, BA, Tala Radejko, BA, and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Religious Beliefs and Mammography Intention: Findings from a Qualitative Study of a Diverse Group of American Muslim Women.

Aasim I. Padela, Milkie Vu, Hadiyah Muhammad, Farha Marfani, Saleha Mallick, Monica Peek, Michael T. Quinn.

Using CBPR for Health Research in American Muslim Mosque Communities:

Amal Killawi, MSW, Michele Heisler, MD, MPA, Hamada Hamid, DO, MPH, and Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc.

Religious Identity and Workplace Discrimination: A national Survey of American Muslim Physicians.

Aasim I. Padela, Huda Adam, Maha Ahmad, Zahra Hosseinian and Farr Curlin.

Beyond Preservation The Higher Objectives of Islamic Law and the Enhancement of Life:

Aasim I. Padela.

Islamic Goals for Clinical Treatment at the End of Life: The Concept of Accountability Before God (Taklīf) Remains Useful: Response to Open Peer Commentaries.

Aasim I. Padela.

Adab and its Significance for an Islamic Medical Ethics:

Elizabeth Sartell, Aasim I. Padela.

Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System: The Discursive Framing of "Islamic" Bioethical Discourse.

Aasim I. Padela.

Attitudes towards the Resuscitation of Periviable Infants: A National Survey of American Muslim Physicians.

Bonnie Arzuaga, Huda Adam , Maha Ahmad, and Aasim Padela.

Predictors of Physician Recommendation for Ethically Controversial Medical Procedures: Findings from an Exploratory National Survey of American Muslim Physicians.

Sundus Mahdi, Obadah Ghannam, Sydeaka Watson and Aasim I. Padela.

American Muslim Health Disparities: The State of the Medline Literature.

Aasim I. Padela.

Ethical Obligations and Clinical Goals in End-of-Life Care: Deriving a Quality-of-Life Construct Based on the Islamic Concept of Accountability Before God (Taklīf).

Aasim I. Padela.

Associations Between Religion-Related Factors and Breast Cancer Screening Among American Muslims:

Aasim I. Padela, Sohad Murrar, Brigid Adviento, Chuanhong Liao, Zahra Hosseinian, Monica Peek and Farr Curlin.

Dire Necessity and Transformation: Entry-Points for Modern Science in Islamic Bioethical Assessment of Porcine Products in Vaccines.

Aasim I. Padela.

Donation after cardiac death and the emergency department: ethical issues.

Aasim I. Padela.

Associations Between Religion-Related Factors and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Muslims in Greater Chicago:

Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, Monica Peek, MD, MPH, Crista E. Johnson-Agbakwu, MD, MSc, Zahra Hosseinian, MA, and Farr Curlin, MD.

Relationships Between Islamic Religiosity and Attitude Toward Deceased Organ Donation Among American Muslims: A Pilot Study.

Aasim I. Padela, and Hatidza Zaganjor.

Islamic bioethics: between sacred law, lived experiences, and state authority.

Aasim I. Padela.

Ethics In Action (Case):

Aasim I. Padela.

Brain death: the challenges of translating medical science into Islamic bioethical discourse.

Aasim I. Padela, Taha Abdul-Basser.

Brain death in Islamic ethico-legal deliberation: challenges for applied Islamic bioethics:

Aasim I. Padela.

Global health experiences of U.S. Physicians: a mixed methods survey of clinician-researchers and health policy leaders.

Aasim I. Padela.

Caring for Muslim Patients with the Help of an App:

Aasim I. Padela.

Causes and Means of Healing: An Islamic Ontological Perspective:

Volkan Y Stodolsky, Ahsan Arozullah, Aasim I. Padela.

American Muslim perceptions of healing: Key agents in healing and their roles.

Amal Killawi, Aasim I. Padela.

Challenges and opportunities of US and Arab collaborations in health services research: a case study from Qatar.

Heather Elliott, Amal Killawi, Huda Abdelrahim, Michael Fetters, Aasim I. Padela.

A Saudi family making end-of-life decisions in the PICU:

Aasim I. Padela.

Qualitative Research AM Perceptions Of Healing Key Agents In Healing & Their_Roles 2012:

Aasim I. Padela, Amal Killawi, Jane Forman, Sonya DeMonner and Michele Heisler.

Meeting the Healthcare Needs of American Muslims: Challenges and Strategies for Healthcare Settings.

Aasim Padela, MD, MS, Katie Gunter, MPH, MSW, and Amal Killawi, MSW.

Factors Associated with Positive Attitudes Toward Organ Donation in Arab Americans:

Aasim I. Padela, Shoaib Rasheed, Gareth J. W. Warren, Hwajung Choi and Amit K. Mathur.

A Review of “Disability in Islamic Law”:

Aasim I. Padela.

Industry Relations With Emergency Medicine Graduate Medical Education Programs:

Aasim I. Padela.

Emergency medical practice: advancing cultural competence and reducing health care disparities.

Imran Punekar, Aasim I. Padela.

A Return to Virtue:

Aasim I. Padela.

Islamic Medical Ethics: A Primer.

Aasim I. Padela.

Can you take care of my mother? Reflections on cultural competency and clinical accommodation:

Aasim I. Padela.

The Role Of Imams In AM Health Perspectives Of Community Leaders In SEMICH:

Aasim I. Padela.

Religious Values & Healthcare Accommodations AM Community:

Aasim I. Padela.

Conference Proceedings of the International Conference: Health Related Issues and Islamic Normativity:

Habiba Chaabouni, Jenny Schreiber, Lela Mansor, Azizan Baharuddin, Omar Fassatoui, Markus Loewe, Aasim I. Padela.

GenEthics and Religion (REVIEW):

Aasim I. Padela.