YJA Convention 2002 07 NJ Fifth

Author(s): Young Jains of America (YJA)
Publisher: Young Jains of America YJA USA

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University of Michigan JSG
1 The Jain Student Group at the University of Michigan was founded eight years ago in Ann Arbor, MI on the University of Michigan Campus by some students that were interested in furthering their knowledge on Jainism through their college years. The first major accomplishment of our group was the publication of a thorough book on the basics of Jainism at www.umich.edu/-umjains/. Since then, we have been participating in activities with the local Jain center through Snatra Puja, fundraising events, and a Navakar Jaap. Also on campus, we hold meetings, discussions, and yoga activities in conjunction with other student groups. Our group is motivated by their desire to increase their understanding of our culture and religion. Our aim is also to spread awareness of Jainism amongst our community.
Our group members that will be presenting are: Suchita Shah, a second year Chemical Engineering student, Kavita Bhavsar, a second year Pre-Med student, Rinku Kapadia, a third year Industrial Engineering student, Priti Shah, a third year Industrial Engineering student, Anupa Shah, a third year Mechanical Engineering student, Sneha Shah, a third year Chemical Engineering student, and Krupesh Mehta, a fourth year Business student.
r. John Cort
Dr. John E. Cort is Associate Professor of Asian Religions at Denison University in Ohio. He is the editor of Kendall W. Folkert's, Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains (1993) and Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History (1998). He is the author of Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India (2001) and several dozen articles on various aspects of Jainism and religion and society in South Asia. He has also conducted extensive fieldwork research among the Jains in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Manoj Jain
I Dr. Manoj Jain is a physician living in Memphis, Tennessee who has been conducting research in spirituality and medicine for over 5 years. He has received a $300,000 grant to study the "Therapeutic Effect of Prayer" in collaboration with Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School. He is also a former president and current member of the Jain Center of Memphis. He teaches at the pathshala students and also leads the meditation exercises.
Dr. Jain was born near Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and immigrated to USA in 1973. He received his undergraduate degree in Bio-medical Engineering, summa cum laude from Boston University and conducted research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Jain received his doctorate in medicine from Boston University School of Medicine in 1981. During medical school he received several grants to work on health and soybean nutrition projects in rural Madhya Pradesh. He co-authored two books on vegetarian and soybean nutrition.
Dr. Jain also received a Masters in Public Health from Boston University School of Public Health and did his residency training in internal medicine at Boston City Hospital and fellowship training in infectious diseases at New England Medical Center, Tufts University Medical School. During his fellowship he conducted research on HIV epidemiology in India through grants from Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation at Christian Medical College in Vellore. He also served as a consultant to the World Bank on HIV Epidemiology.
Presently, Dr. Jain is a clinical assistant professor at University of Tennessee, Memphis. He is a consultant in infectious diseases, and Medical Director for Quality Improvement at the Tennessee's Quality Improvement Organization. He lives with his wife, Sunita Jain, a physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation and their 3 children Sapna, Monika and Rishab in Memphis, Tennessee and Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
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