Kimbell Kornu
Provost Professor of Bioethics, Theology, and Christian Formation, Professor of Medical Ethics and Theology
College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine
MD from the University of Texas Southwestern and a PhD in Theology from the University of Nottingham (UK)
Location: Massey 238
615.460.5970kimbell.kornu@belmont.edu
Biography
Kimbell Kornu is the inaugural Provost’s Professor of Bioethics, Theology, and Christian Formation at Belmont University and is a Palliative Care physician. He holds an MD from the University of Texas Southwestern and a PhD in Theology from the University of Nottingham (UK). He has taught palliative medicine, bioethics, and theology across the university to undergraduates, medical students, PhD students, and medical residents and fellows. His research focuses on the historical, social, philosophical, and theological determinants that shape the metaphysics and practices of modern medicine. He has published widely in the philosophy and theology of medicine. He is currently working on a book that traces the genealogy of medical knowing back to the origins of Western medicine through the lens of anatomical dissection.