Initiative on Islam & Medicine: Scholarship

• Associations between fatalistic beliefs, modesty concerns and breast cancer screening in the American Muslim community. Annual Meeting 2013 on American Association for Cancer Research. Washington, DC.
• Associations Between Religion-Related Factors and Breast Cancer Screening Among American Muslims. 5^th Annual Meeting on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved. American Association for Cancer Research. Atlanta, GA.
• Religion Related Factors and Breast Cancer Screening among American Muslims. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. San Antonio, TX.
• The Influence of Religion Upon American Muslim Mammography Beliefs and Practices. Society of Behavioral Medicine 36^th Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX

Published Papers:

• Between Religion-Related Factors and Breast Cancer Screening Among American Muslims. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 
• Associations Between Cervical Cancer Screening Among Muslims in Greater Chicago. Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease 

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

• Padela, AI, E. Sartell, and S. Rasheed. Inculcating Virtues and Remaining Faithful to the Law: Examining Efforts to Promote Organ Donation Among Muslims Through an Islamic Bioethical Lens. American Society for Bioethics + Humanities. 15^th Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA.

Videos:

• Organ Donation among Muslim Communities (video)

Published Papers:

• Padela, AI and Zaganjor, H. 2014. Relationships Between Islamic Religiosity and Attitude Toward Deceased Organ Donation Among American Muslims: A Pilot Study. Clinical and Translational Research. [Volume 97: Issue 12]
• Rasheed, S. and AI Padela. 2013. The Interplay between Religious Leaders and Organ Donation Among Muslims. Zygon. [Epub]
• Padela, AI. S. Rasheed, GJW. Warren, H. Choi, and AK. Mathur. 2011. Factors Associated with Positive Attitudes Towards Organ Donation in Arab Americans. Clinical Transplantation. [25:800-8]

Published Papers:

• Padela, AI and F. Curlin. 2013. Religion and Disparities: Considering the influences of Islam on the health of American Muslims. Journal of Religion and Health. 52:1333-1345
• Padela, AI. A. Killawi, J. Forman, S. DeMonner, M. Heisler. 2012. American Muslim Perceptions of Healing: Key Agents in Healing and Their Roles. Qualitative Health Research 22:846-858.
• AlRawi, S. MD. Fetters, A. Killawi, A. Hammad, and AI. Padela . 2011. Traditional Healing Practices Among American Muslims: Perceptions of Community Leaders in Southeast Michigan. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 14:489-96.

• Mohiuddin, A. AI Padela Islamic Perspectives on Withdrawing or Withholding Life Support: Ethico-Legal Responses to moral conundrums. 2012. Responding to the Call of the Sick: Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today- National Conference on Medicine and Religion. The University of Chicago. Chicago IL
• Mohiuddin, A. AI Padela Islamic Perspectives on Withdrawing or Withholding Life Support: Ethico-Legal Responses to moral conundrums. 2014. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting. Indianapolis, IA

Published Papers:

• Padela, AI. and T.Basser. 2012 Brain Death- The Challenges of Translating Medical Science into Islamic Bioethical Discourse. Medicine & Law. 31:433-450.
• Padela, AI. A. Arozullah, and E. Moosa.  2011.  Brain Death in Islamic Ethico-legal Deliberation: Challenges for Applied Islamic Bioethics. Bioethics. [epub]
• Padela, AI. and Mohiuddin, A. 2015. 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)
• Padela, AI. and Mohiuddin, A. 2015. Islamic Goals for Clinical Treatment at the End of Life: The Concept of Accountability Before God (Taklıf) Remains Useful: Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “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 (Taklıf)

• Padela, AI & Klima K. Misunderstanding and Misrepresentation: Modern Medical Ethics and Islamic Bioethics in Dialogue. 2013 Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics Annual Meeting. 2013. Chicago, IL

Published Papers:

• Padela, AI. 2013 Islamic Bioethics: Between Sacred Law, Lived Experiences and State Authority. Journal of Theoretical Biomedicine and Ethics 34:65-80.
• Where Religion, Bioethics, and Policy Meet: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Islamic Bioethics and End-of-life Care