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Pray for tomorrow's presentation sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Christian Faculty Forum and the Christian Medical Association to be a blessing to the Medical Community and the larger Pitt campus, giving insight into the complexity and beauty to which the medical profession seeks to provide care/healing.

Why No Physician Will Ever Understand the Human Body
Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
2003 Educator of the Year, Christian Medical Association
12:00 noon, Wednesday, October 17
Lecture Hall #3, 4th Floor, Scaife Hall

No physician has ever understood the human body—it exceeds comprehension. The complexity and dimensions involved are staggering, straining our abilities to apprehend the grandeur. Yet this view is seldom taught in medical schools. What is lost when we approach the body only in reductionist terms? Awe? Humanity? God? As we will see, such loss is as scientifically unnecessary as it is medically tragic.

Richard A. Swenson, M.D., is a physician-futurist, best-selling author, and award-winning educator. He received his B.S. in physics from Denison University and his M.D. from the University of Illinois School of Medicine. Following five years of private practice, in 1982 Dr. Swenson accepted a teaching position as Associate Clinical Professor with the University of Wisconsin Medical School-Department of Family Medicine where he taught for fifteen years. As a physician, his current focus is cultural medicine, researching the intersection of health and culture. As a futurist, his emphasis is fourfold: the future of the world system, western culture, faith, and healthcare. Dr. Swenson has traveled to over fifty countries, including a year of study in Europe and medical work in developing countries. He has presented widely, including national and international settings, to a wide variety of career, professional, educational, medical, governmental, and management groups, most major church denominations, members of the United Nations, members of Congress, and the Pentagon.