Kimbell Kornu

Kimbell Kornu

Provost Professor of Bioethics, Theology, and Christian Formation, Professor of Medical Ethics and Theology

Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine, College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

MD from the University of Texas Southwestern and a PhD in Theology from the University of Nottingham (UK)

Location: FCOM 5004

(615) 460-5970
kimbell.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.