John M. Travaline, MD

Adjunct Professor of Catholic Studies
Department of Catholic Studies

Doctor Travaline is Professor of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, completed training in internal medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center, and then pulmonary and critical care medicine at Temple University Hospital. His interest in religion and medicine is long-standing, and weaving Christian ethics as a discipline complementing his practice of medicine began as a graduate student of religious studies at Villanova University. He has been particularly interested in understanding human suffering in the context of illness, and engaging medical students and physicians in conversation about caring for patients in accord with their dignity as persons, especially at the end of life.