Aasim I. Padela
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Aasim I. Padela
@draasim.bsky.social
I am an ER doc & academic scholar with research foci at the intersection of bioethics, public health, and religion. Most notable for scholarship on Islam and biomedicine
Why do all this in US and UK? Because Muslim women are less likely to attend routine screening for breast, bowel, and cervical cancer—leading to later diagnoses and poorer outcomes. We wanted to change that and provide
a blueprint for others to use the same program
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November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
We started in the US @medicineandislam.bsky.social with @americancancersoc.bsky.social identifying barriers to screening, designing a novel method👇 to create religiously tailored messages & partnering with Chicago mosques to host workshops w/a female scholar & a female MD to promote screening.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
🧵 #CancerScreening #HealthEquity
Just returning from the UK with exciting results from a 3-year project to Improve Muslim women's CANcer screening [IMCAN] funded by @cancerresearchuk.org with Dr. Floor Christie from Sunderland University & Prof. Katie Robb
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Congrats to UNESCO Bioethics Chair in Rome on the publication from our last conference! Has some good reflections on ecology in there (including mine)
#IslamicBioethics
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
What you don't see will harm them. Join me and Dr. Chelsey Patten, Director of Clinical Ethics at the Center for Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Colorado
Register here
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@medicineandislam.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Episode 2 of our podcast Big Questions about the Human Being: Bioscience & Islam in Dialogue is out!
This time we focus on The Question of Human Origin"

here is a clip: youtu.be/DHoh3YgzVqA?...

🎧 Listen now on YouTube, Spotify, Anghami, and more.
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#BigQuestionsPodcast
October 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
September 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In Indonesia to join the Federation of Islamic Medical Associations conference in parallel with Consortium of Islamic Medical Colleges and Islamic Hospital Consortium Meetings
looking forward to discussing how to instill hikmah in healthcare through medical education
@medicineandislam.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM