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Dr. Aasim I. Padela serves as Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Scholarship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where he also acts as a Learning Community Navigator in the MCWFusion medical education curriculum. An emergency medicine physician and academic scholar, his work centers on advancing health equity through multidisciplinary research at the intersection of bioethics, public health, and religion.
His educational credentials include:
- MD from Weill Cornell Medical College
- MSc in Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan
- BS in Biomedical Engineering and BA in Classical Arabic from the University of Rochester
Dr. Padela's research program integrates community-engaged methodologies, patient-centered design, and Islamic theological frameworks to address Muslim American health disparities. His innovations include mosque-based PCOR approaches, measures of religious fatalism, and faith-based messaging tools for organ donation and end-of-life care. He has pioneered national studies on religious discrimination among Muslim clinicians and developed frameworks for bridging biomedical, social scientific, and religious knowledge in global bioethics.
His scientific recognition includes:
- Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP)
- Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Visiting Fellowship
- International Institute for Islamic Thought Visiting Fellowship
Dr. Padela has secured major funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, John Templeton Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, Qatar National Research Fund, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His scholarship, featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN, extends to public health consultation for international organizations and legislative bodies, with recent publications including the monograph Maqasid al-Shariah and Biomedicine (IIIT Press 2024) and four edited volumes on Islamic bioethics.
