Fall 2003
10 September
Humanism in Medicine: The Home Visit
Leigh Grossman, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, UVA
Arnold P. Gold, M.D., President, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation,
Englewood, NJ
17 September
Affirmative Action and the Michigan Decision: Implications for Professional Schools
John C. Jeffries, Jr., J.D., Emerson Spies Professor of Law, Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, and Dean, School of Law, UVA
Randolph J. Canterbury, M.D., Professor of Psychiatric Medicine and Associate Dean of Admissions, School of Medicine, UVA
Presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life
24 September
Spirituality and Medicine
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Our Lives with Compassion
Tara Brach, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and Founder, Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C.
Presented with the Center for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
1 October
Difficult Dilemmas: Depression and Suicide Among University Students
Inez Okrent, Author and Parent/Suicide Survivor
Russ Federman, Ph.D., Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, UVA
8 October
The Faces of AIDS (I): The Grahamstown Hospice Project
Edmund Etheridge, Class of 2004, College of Arts & Sciences, and Harrison Undergraduate Research Award Winner, UVA
Presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life
15 October
Bice Memorial Lecture of the School of Nursing
The Faces of AIDS (II): Issues of Prevention and Treatment in Developing Countries
Mary Ann Leeper, M.B.A., Ph.D., President and CEO, Female Health Company
Copresented with the School of Nursing and the Women's Center
22 October
The Art of Caring
William F. May, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Ethics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, and Fellow, Institute for Practical Ethics, UVA
Richard B. Haines, D.Min., Director, Chaplaincy Services and Pastoral Education, UVA
Presented with the Department of Chaplaincy Services and Pastoral Education
29 October
Keynote Address, Second Annual Medical Student Research Symposium
At the Edge of Discovery: Engineering Inflammation
Michail Sitkovsky, Ph.D., Chief, Biochemistry and Immunopharmacology Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda
Copresented with the Office of the Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine
5 November
Men, Women and Medicine in Ancient Greece
Helen King, Ph.D., Reader in the History of Classical Medicine, Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK
Copresented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
12 November
Without: Writing Love, Death and Grief
Donald Hall, poet, Wilmot NH
Copresented with the Department of English (Peters Rushton Bequest and the Creative Writing Program), the Center for Palliative Care, Forum for Contemporary Thought, Central Virginia Palliative Care Initiative, and Hospice of the Piedmont
19 November
Richardson Memorial Lecture of the School of Medicine
Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York NY
and Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review
Rebecca Dillingham, M.D., Chief Medical Resident (2002-2003) and Fellow in Infectious Diseases, UVA
3 December
Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream
Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Copresented with the Center for Biomedical Ethics
and the Undergraduate Bioethics Program of the College of Arts & Sciences
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