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Aasim I. Padela, MD, MSc, FACEP

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Medical College of Wisconsin
Brookfield, Wisconsin

Dr. Aasim Padela MD, MSc, is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Bioethics, and Medical Humanities at the Medical College of Wisconsin. With research foci at the intersection of bioethics, public health, and religion, his scholarship advances health equity and societal well-being through multidisciplinary inquiry and multilevel intervention. Accordingly, his expertise spans a variety of research areas, including community-engaged, patient-centered, and human-centered research design, behavior change theory, religiously tailored messaging, survey and qualitative research, discourse analysis, character education, and Islamic theology.

Dr. Padela’s scholarly contributions include (i) developing novel mosque-based approaches and tools for studying and intervening upon Muslim American health disparities; (ii) launching studies of the prevalence, as well as professional and psychological impacts of, religious discrimination experienced by Muslim clinicians in the US and UK; and (iii) conceptual and discursive frameworks for bridging biomedical, social scientific, and religious knowledge in global bioethics.

Dr. Padela holds an MD from Weill Cornell Medical College, an MSc in Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan, and bachelor's degrees in Biomedical Engineering and 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, and Islamic studies fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and the International Institute for Islamic Thought. He has authored >150 articles and book chapters and one monograph, Maqasid al-Shariah, and Biomedicine: Bridging Moral, Ethical, and Policy Discourses (IIT 2024). He has edited four books: Medicine and Shariah: A Dialogue in Islamic Bioethics (UND 2021), Islam and Biomedicine (Springer 2022), Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics and Society (Lexington 2022) and Islam, Muslims, and COVID-19: The Intersection of Ethics, Health, and Social Life in the Diaspora (Brill 2024).

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