Instructor

Dr. Padela is an emergency medicine physician and an academic scholar with research foci at the intersection of bioethics, public health, and religion. Overall, his scholarship aims to advance health equity and societal well-being through multidisciplinary inquiry and multilevel intervention. 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.