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Chief Consultation Psychiatry and Ethics
New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System
Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Associate Director Religious Studies Program University of New Mexico
Dr. Geppert's interests are diverse and range from psychopharmacology to spirituality and are centered on teaching. She is the director of the consultation services at the VA hospital where she enjoys helping senior residents learn to integrate medicine, psychiatry, and ethics. She also teaches ethics and professionalism in the medical school and religion and ethics in the religious studies program at the University of New Mexico. Her clinical work is in the areas of mood and substance use disorders, psychosomatic medicine and chronic pain.
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Topics:
Religion and Medical Ethics at the End of Life
Advance directives, withdrawal and withholding of treatment, artificial nutrition and hydration—this presentation will explore Judeo-Christian perspectives on modern medical ethics dilemmas involved in end of life care.
Genetics and God: Is There Room for Both?
An introduction to the major ethical and religious issues related to the genomic revolution in medicine including genetic testing, gene therapy, and eugenics.
Suffering and Evil in World Religions
How can evil and suffering be reconciled theologically with belief in the Good? An overview of the perspectives the major religious traditions on the problematic existence of suffering and evil.
Heresy and Orthodoxy in Early Christian Thought
This presentation will discuss the evolution of the core Christian doctrines of the Trinity, Christology, and sin and salvation as they developed through an intellectual struggle with contemporary heresies such as Arianism and Pelagianism.
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