Personnel
Meet the II&M Team
Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc
Director of Program on Medicine and Religion; Director of Initiative on Islam and Medicine; Associate Professor, Section of Emergency Medicine; Faculty, Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
Dr. Padela is an emergency medicine physician, health services researcher, and bioethicist whose scholarship focuses on the intersection of minority health and bioethics through the lens of the healthcare experiences of American Muslim patients and health care providers.
Contact info:
apadela@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-6081
Fax: 773-702-3135
Rosie Duivenbode, MD, MSc
Postdoctoral Scholar
Dr. Duivenbode has a joint medical and clinical research degree from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and first got involved with II&M through our medical student internship. Her research interests are the medical decision-making of Muslim patients at the end-of-life, Islamic and Muslim perspectives on organ donation, and the practice of female genital cutting in Muslim populations.
Stephen Hall, MPH
Research Specialist
Mr. Hall earned his Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology through the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago. His research experiences include national and local disease surveillance projects, novel methods for HIV prevention, quality improvement research, and health disparities research. Stephen is passionate about public health, mixed methods research, and culturally tailored health interventions.
Khadija Snowber
Research Assistant
Ms. Snowber, a Chicago native, is a 4th year undergraduate at the University of Chicago pursuing a degree in Biology and minoring in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Khadija is passionate about Muslim Health education, reproductive health, and social justice in medicine. Post graduation Khadija hopes to pursue a career in medicine inshallah. For fun Khadija likes to read, bake, and explore her multicultural Latin and Arab roots through cooking.
Previous II&M Trainees
Huda Adam, MD
Former Postdoctoral Scholar
Akila Ally
Former Research Intern
Ahamed Milhan
Former Research Intern
Milkie Vu, MA, MSc
Former Research Specialist
Teaching Faculty
Mahmoud Ismail, MD
Maternal-Fetal Medicine, OB/GYN | More