XXVI FIAMC World Congress for Catholic Physicians
Medical, Philosophical and Theological Considerations.
Open to all interested in Catholic Healthcare.
Special program for Young Physicians and Students in Medecine
Papal Audience Requested
XXVI FIAMC World Congress for Catholic Physicians
September 15-17 2022, Augustinianum – Rome, Italy
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Program
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Thursday, September 15, 2022
07.00-17.00 Information desk open
07.30-08.00 Holy Mass
08.30-09.00 Welcome message by the President of the F.I.A.M.C.,
Prof. Dr. Bernard Ars (Belgium)
09.00-13.00 MEDICAL SESSION
Chairmen:
– Dr. John Lane, Vice-President of the F.I.A.M.C. (U.S.A.)
– Dr. José-Maria Simon Castellvi, Past President of the F.I.A.M.C. (Spain)
09.00-09.30 Keynote speech.
Bogdan Chazan, M.D., Gynecologist, Medical Director of MaterCare International (Poland):
« Restorative approach in maternity care »
09.30-10.00 Bernard Ars, M.D., Ph.D., E.N.T. surgeon (Belgium):
« Réparer selon les humanistes versus transformer selon les transhumanistes »
10.00-10.30 Paul Camarata, M.D., Professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center and Clinical Service Chief of Neurosurgery at the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas (U.S.A.):
« From attenuation and restoration to augmentation and transformation – the past, present, and future of functional brain surgery »
10.30-11.00 Coffee
Chairmen:
– Dr. Kano Shigeyuki, President of the A.F.C.M.A. (Japan)
– Dr. Vincenzo Defilippis, President of the F.E.A.M.C. (Italy)
11.00-11.30 Ermanno Pavesi, M.D., Psychiatrist (Switzerland):
« Teorie del gender e trasformazione della persona umana »
11.30- 12.00 Paul Hruz, M.D., Ph.D., Endocrinologist, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Diabetes; Cell Biology & Physiology, at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (U.S.A.):
« Medical Approaches to Alleviate Gender Dysphoria: Scientific Evidence and Outcomes »
12.00-12.30 Al Oliva, M.D., Ph.D., Plastic-Surgeon, member of the board of directors of both the Spokane County Medical Society and the Washington State Medical Society (U.S.A.):
« The surgical treatments of adult gender dysphoria »
12.30-14.30 Break
14.30-17.30 ACADEMIC SESSION
14.30-15.00 Short speech by the President of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (F.I.A.M.C.),Prof. Dr. Bernard Ars.
15.00-15.30 Lecture by Prof. Dr. John Lane, the Vice-President of the F.I.A.M.C.:
« The Real Story: Recovering the Christian Foundations of Modern Medicine »
15.30- 15.45 Musical interlude by members of the Ensemble cameristico dell’Università Campus Bio-Medico – Roma, Italy
15.45-16.00 Allocution by His Eminence Peter Cardinal Turkson, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development
16.00-16.15 Allocution by His Eminence Kevin Cardinal Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life
16.15-16.30 Allocution by His Eminence Pietro Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State
16.30-16.45 Musical interlude by members of the Ensemble cameristico dell’Università Campus Bio-Medico, – Roma, Italy
16.45-17.30 Masterful lecture – Leçon magistrale
Professor Dominique Baron Lambert, Ph.D. in Physics and in Philosophy, University of Namur and Royal Academy of Belgium (Belgium):
« La médecine contemporaine en quête de sens ? De la réparation à l’accompagnement »
17.30- 18.30 Final concert by members of the Ensemble cameristico dell’Università Campus Bio-Medico, Roma, Italy
19.00 Closing
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Friday, September 16, 2022
07.30-10.00 Information desk open
08.30-09.30 MEDICAL SESSION
Chairmen:
– Dr. Henrietta Williams (Nigeria)
– Dr. Likinda (R.D.C.-Congo).
08.30-09.00 Fiorella Gurrieri, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Medical genetics at the Biocampus University-Roma (Italy):
« Promesse e insidie della genetica umana »
09.00-09.30 Jean-Guilhem Xerri, M.D., Ph.M., Psychoanalist and Biologist (France):
« La médecine transhumaniste n’existe pas »
09.30-13.00 PHILOSOPHICAL SESSION
Chairmen:
– Dr. Rene Bullecer (The Philippines)
– Dr. Pedro Spineti (Brazil)
09.30-10.00 Nikolas T. Nikas, JD, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University, College of Law, where he graduated in the top five percent of his class; B.A. in government and international relations, and M.A. in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, President of the Bioethics Defense Fund, Catholic Academy for Life Leadership (U.S.A.):
« The Crisis of Reason in Western Jurisprudence and its Impact on Medicine’s Duty to Protect Life »
10.00-10.30 P. Philippe Capelle-Dumont, Professor of philosophy and theology, Institut Catholique de Paris, associate researcher at the Sorbonne University, Honorary President « de la Conférence mondiale des facultés de philosophie des universités catholiques » and « de l’Académie Catholique de France » (France):
« Nature et transgression. Anthropologie philosophique fondamentale »
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.30 Keynote speech
Giulia Lombardi, Professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University Urbaniana- Roma (Italy):
« Il ruolo dell’esperienza per riparare e trasformare, alla luce dell’empeiria greca: avere chiaro il margine di manovra »
11.30-12.00 Lorella Congiunti, Professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University Urbaniana – Roma (Italy):
« Riparare e trasformare secondo la natura dell’uomo e il suo fine »
12.00-14.30 Break
14.30-16.00 THEOLOGICAL SESSION
Chairmen:
– Niklaus Waldis, General Secretary of the F.I.A.M.C.(Switzerland)
– Elvis Seman (Australie)
14.30-15.15 Keynote speech
P. Philippe Capelle-Dumont (France):
« Réparation. Rédemption. Transfiguration. Contribution à une théologie de lacorporéité »
15.15-16.00 Yves Semen, Docteur en philosophie de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Président de l’Institut de Théologie du Corps (Lyon) (France):
« Du corps humain comme signe de la personne au langage du corps relu dans la vérité »
16.00- 16.30 Conclusions
- Dominique Lambert (Belgium)
16.30 Departure for the Holy Mass
17.00-18.30 HOLY MASS at the altar of the Chair of St. Peter – Saint-Peters Basilica
20.00-22.00 Dinner
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Saturday, September 17, 2022
JUNIOR – SYMPOSIUM
07.30-09.00 Information desk open
08.30-10.30 Morning Symposium
Chairman: Vincent Kemme, biologist (The Netherlands, Belgium).
Testimonies of Young Physicians from all over the world:
« Witnessing to the hope that is in you » (cfr. Peter, 3, 15)
08.30-8.45 Vincent Kemme. Welcome speech
08.45-09.15 José Diogo Ferreira Martins, Paediatric Cardiologist (Portugal):
« Challenges of the Catholic Physicians in Portugal »
09.15-09.45 François Mabilais, General Practitioner, President of ‘Emmanuel Médecins’ (France):
Comment « le cœur doux et humble du Christ » transforme notre vie de médecin
09.45-10.30 Tom McGovern, Chairman, Young Member Advisory Committee, Catholic Medical Association of USA, and Kate Kondratuk, Resident physician in Dermatology, former President of CMA Medical Student Section”.
« Effective outreach to Catholic medical students and young physicians »
11.00 PAPAL AUDIENCE (Requested)
13.30-15.00 Break
15.00- 17.00 Afternoon – Junior Symposium
Chairman: Vincent Kemme
15.00-15.30 Camila Rodrigues, Intensivist, Front Line doctor (Brazil):
« Doctors of Body and Soul Ministry »
15.30-16.00 Peter Au-Young (Hong Kong), Anaesthesiologist, Chinese University of Hong Kong:
« The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Asia »
16.00-16.30 Lotte Voets, geriatrician, the Netherlands:
« Geriatric medicine in a highly secularised society: opportunities of faith, hope and love »
16.30-17.00 Odilon-Gbènoukpo Singbo PhD, priest and theologian from Benin at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Zagreb, Croatia:
« Expérience d’Afrique, Europe et le transhumanisme »
17.00-17.30 CLOSING CEREMONY
Final message. Awards ceremony. Tributes to personalities.
17.30 General assembly
19.30-20.30 Holy Mass at the Church of the Frisians
Chiesa dei SS. Michele e Magno, Borgo Santo Spirito 21, Roma
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