Kimbell Kornu is the 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 is a founding faculty member at Belmont University’s Frist College of Medicine, emphasizing whole-person formation for whole-person care. 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 completing a book that traces the genealogy of medical knowing from Hippocrates to modern neuroscience through the lens of anatomical dissection.