Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP, FISSR

Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP, FISSR is tenured Professor of Bioethics, Medical Humanities, and Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He holds an MD from Weill Cornell Medical College, an MSc in Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan, as well as a BS in Biomedical Engineering and a BA in Classical Arabic from the University of Rochester. He completed emergency medicine training at the University of Rochester, a research fellowship at the University of Michigan, a clinical medical ethics fellowship at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago and visiting fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the International Institute for Islamic Thought. His academic scholarship lies at the intersection of bioethics, public health, and religion. Accordingly, Dr. Padela’s expertise spans a variety of research methodologies and topics, including community-engaged, patient-centered, and human-centered research design, behavior change theory, religiously tailored and faith-based messaging, survey and qualitative research, discourse analysis, character education, clinical ethics, and Islamic theology.