Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.

Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.

The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Tomistic Institute chapters around the world.

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Thank you all for coming.

I'm delighted to introduce our speaker today, Dr. Paul Lepena.

He's a neurologist from Greenville, South Carolina,

and he's an associate professor of neurology

at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Carolina's campus.

Dr. Lepena completed his neurology residency at Indiana University School of Medicine in 2018.

As a neurohospitalist, Dr. Lepena's skill set is focused on treatment of neurological emergencies and performing and interpreting electro-physiological studies of the brain and peripheral nervous system.

As an associate professor of neurology, Dr. Lepena has won numerous teaching awards, including clinical medicine professor of the neuroscience curriculum in 2019, 2020, 2020, and 2021.

For the 2020-2020 academic year, Dr. Lepena was awarded Preceptor of the Year.

For his care towards patients, he was selected to the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2016.

Dr. Lepena has an interest in the relationship between science and faith,

in particular the relationship between neuroscience and the soul, which we'll talk about today,

the overreaching claims of science, and the dignity of the human person, to name a few.

St. Thomas Aquinas has been a major influence in Dr. Lepena's intellectual and faith journey,

which is why we invited him to speak here today.

And if you would like to learn more about the Timisic Institute,

we're delighted to have Father John Mark here as well,

so you can feel free to talk to him if you have any questions

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