Integrating Faith
and Medicine
12:00 PM • Stoneman Classroom
Challenging situations in medicine reveal many of our core beliefs about the nature and purpose of human life. What does it mean to be healthy and live well? Is there more to medicine than physical treatment? What core values ought to guide the medical profession?
In this panel, prominent alumni practitioners will show how faith can provide a foundation for practicing sound, science-based medicine, and will examine ways in which faith strengthens and deepens important relational and other non-technical aspects of practice critical to a “whole person” approach to medicine.
Moderator
Ralph Aye, MD D’72
Former Chief of Surgery, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Ralph W. Aye, M.D. is an attending thoracic and esophageal surgeon and thoracic surgery fellowship director at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. There he has served, among many other positions, as Chief of Surgery from 2002 to 2005, as a clinical assistant professor in the University of Washington, Department of Surgery from 1987 to 2009, and as the president of the Seattle Surgical Society from 2007 to 2008. Dr. Aye publishes regularly in many medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Aye graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1972 with a modified biology major and went on to receive his M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1977. Dr. Aye did his internship and began his general surgery residency at New York University’s Bellevue Medical Center before moving to the Swedish Medical Center in 1979 where he became Chief Resident. He also completed fellowships in thoracic and esophageal surgery at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, England and as the Howard S. Wright Fellow to Lucius D. Hill, M.D. in Seattle.
Dr. Aye currently attends Pine Lake Covenant Church in Sammamish, Washington where he regularly helps lead worship and has served as the prayer coordinator. He has participated with a healing prayer ministry over the past three years. Dr. Aye has also been involved in medical missions, traveling with his wife to Kenya several times and running a primary care clinic out of a suitcase.
Panelists
Sarah Johansen, MD, FACP DMS’90
Emergency Medicine Physician, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Faculty Member, Dartmouth Medical School
Sarah G. Johansen, MD, FACP, is an Emergency Medicine physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, faculty member at Dartmouth Medical School, mother of three, and professional theater enthusiast. In addition to these diverse and impressive roles, Sarah occupies numerous leadership positions, including the Immediate Past President, Council Member, and Women Physician Section Board Member of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has been actively involved in the NH Medical Society Tort Reform and Medical Liability Task force, and has also served as a member of the Task Force on Physician Manpower. Sarah received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1981, and graduated from Dartmouth Medical School in 1990.
Leroy “Lee” McCune, MD D’78 DMS’81
Family Practice Physician, Buffalo, NY
After graduating from Dartmouth Medical School and completing his Family Practice Residency (1984), and Public Health Service (1987), Dr. McCune started a solo private practice near Buffalo, NY, which eventually merged into a growing group practice. In 2000, he took the computer and health information systems administrative position, but returned to clinical practice in 2003 in nursing homes, specializing in Geriatric and Palliative Care medicine.
Lee is happily married to Annie ’79, with four children: David ’05, a seminary graduate working for Young Life, Mary Beth, a Christian School Director in Honduras, Chris ’09, on Young Life staff, and Mark, a college junior majoring in film making.
Lee is active in Church as a board member, part of the Christian Medical and Dental Association, and volunteers at an inner city clinic. He started a charity called Storehouse Mission Support, which runs events and raises money for the mission field. He has led 15 medical mission trips to Central America, and introduced over 100 people to missions and 3rd world medicine.
Robert W. Lobel, MD D’83
Urogynecology / Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, Albany, NY
Dr. Lobel received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in computer science and his medical degree from Oral Roberts University. Following residency in Phoenix and fellowship in Chicago at Northwestern University Medical School, he moved to Albany to found the Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at Albany Medical College. He then launched his private practice ten years ago. Dr. Lobel is the recipient of both local and national awards for his research endeavors and has written many articles in medical journals and textbooks. He has been the chairman of the Alpha Pregnancy Care Center in Albany for almost 15 years, preaching the gospel in word and action to women facing unwanted pregnancies. He has served as a lay pastor in his church. The father of six children, he has taken his entire family on medical missions trips to Guatemala, and recently celebrated the birth of his first grandchild!
