Events Calendar - Legacy [x], Medical Center [x], School of Medicine [x]
Wed20
12:00 PM
- day:
- Wednesday
- date:
- 12/20/2017
- time:
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- event:
- MGR | P. Preston Reynolds, MD, PhD – 30th Anniversary of the Banning of Landmines
- location:
- Pinn Hall Auditorium (rm 1-5)
- type:
- Grand Rounds
- department:
- Department of Medicine
- audience:
- Everyone
- details:
- URL:
- https://med.virginia.edu/dom/education/professional-education/medicine-grand-rounds/
- isCME:
- Yes, credit available
- speakers:
- Preston Reynolds is a Professor of Medicine in the UVA Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine. Her research interests include medical professionalism and ethics, the history of racial integration in American medicine, and the history of African Americans in, and contributions to, the health professionals. Dr. Reynolds served on the board of directors for the organization Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) from 1987-2002. At PHR, Reynolds helped develop its human rights investigative research program and other foundational activities that helped PHR earn international recognition as the leading health and human rights group in the world. PHR was awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its pioneering research on the health impact of landmines, and for its role as founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
- registration:
- No registration is necessary
- contact:
- Tony Brinkman Medicine ajb9fa@virginia.edu