How has the COVID-19 pandemic surfaced, and in some instances influenced medical decisions which require physicians and nurses to grapple with the principles of health care [medical/bio] ethics?  In a post COVID-19 pandemic world are traditional standards for making medical choices, which in some cases weigh life and death in the balance, sufficient for rendering the best possible benefits for both patient and society?  How is our understanding of the relevant nuanced principles advanced through a prism of Islamic bioethical concerns?

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Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina

Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., is Professor and Endowed IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.  Dr. Sachedina, who has studied in India, Iraq, Iran, and Canada, obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.  He has been conducting research and writing in the field of Islamic Law, Ethics, and Theology (Sunni and Shiite) for more than three decades.  In the last fifteen years he has concentrated on social and political ethics, including Interfaith and Intrafaith Relations, Islamic Biomedical Ethics and Islam and Human Rights. He is an American citizen born in Tanzania. 

Dr. Joseph Carrese

Joseph Carrese, MD, MPH, FACP is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.  Dr. Carrese's scholarship focuses on clinical ethics and professionalism, with a particular interest in medical education, examining ethical issues in the context of cultural diversity and clinical ethics consultation. Dr. Carrese’s peer-reviewed articles have been published in leading medical and bioethics journals, he has been a visiting professor at several academic medical institutions, and he has been invited to speak at many national and international meetings. Dr. Carrese is Chair of the Ethics Committee at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Chair of an Institutional Review Board at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Carrese is a primary care doctor and sees patients in the General Internal Medicine clinic on the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center campus.