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Dr.Padela recently got published in the Chest. The manuscript uses a clinical case to work through Muslim controversies over brain death and withdrawing life support Here is the link
The recording for our Live Webinar on "Advancing equity for Muslim physicians in the healthcare workforce" and the policy report that stems from our research is available now at : click here
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Sondos Al Sad

Sondos Al Sad, MD, MPH, NCMP

Associate Clinical Professor
Family and Community Medicine Department
Women’s Health Primary Care
University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Sondos Al Sad, MD, MPH is an Associate Clinic Professor at the University of California San Francisco, Women’s Health Primary Care Center. She is a board member of IIM and a regional project manager of MAHSN project. She is committed to health equity, women’s health, and patient-centered outcome research .

Dr. Sondos Al Sad is currently an associate clinical professor at the Department of Family and
Community Medicine, UCSF. She is a nationally certified Menopause provider. She is a part of
The Family & Youth Institute’s Research Team, a member of the North American Menopause
Society (NAMS) Education Committee (NEC), a speaker at the Islamic Network Group
intercultural speakers’ bureau (ING ICSB), a mentor at Zakat Foundation mentorship program, a
mentor at Jordanian American physician(JAP) and American Board Certified Doctors for Egypt
(ABCDE), and a provider in a free APNA clinic Bay Area.

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Mufti Nazim Khutbah

Padela Khutbah

Shkifah Khutbah

Intervention Study

Qualitative Study and Interviews

Fifty Muslim multiethnicity women (40 years old and above) were interviewed (6 focused group) and 19 in individual interviews. We found religious beliefs did informed mammography intention, which includes (1) the perceived religious duty to care for one’s health, (2) religious practices as methods of disease prevention, (3) fatalistic notions about health, and (4) comfort with gender concordant health care.

Quantitative Study and survey

240, 40 years of age or older, were surveyed (72 respondents were Arab, 71 South Asian, 59 African American, and 38 from another ethnicity). We found that positive religious coping and perceived religious discrimination in health settings significantly (negatively) affected mammogram adherence among Muslim women in Chicago.

American Cancer Society mammogram recommendations

Mammogram recommendation for women at average risk or breast cancer

  • Women between 40 and 44 have a choice to have a mammography every year.
  • Women 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year.
  • Women 55 and older can switch to a mammogram every other year, or they can choose to continue yearly mammograms.

3R model

Reframing “switch train tracks”
  • Keep the barriers belief intact but change the way one thinks about it so it is consonant with the desired health behavior
  • Normalizes the barrier belief
Reprioritize: “show them a better train”
  • Introduce a new belief and create higher valence for it than the barrier belief
  • Normalization of the barrier belief is optional
Reform: “breakdown the train carriage”
  • Negate the barrier belief by demonstrating its faults by appealing to authority structures

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