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Spring 2005

 

12 January
The HIV Equity Initiative in Haiti: From Models to Implementation
Joia Mukherjee, M.D., Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Partners in Health , Boston and Haiti

Co-presented with the International Medicine Club
and the Center for Global Health

19 January
Homeless and Poor in America: Implications for Health and Health Care
Kim Hopper , Ph.D., Columbia University Schools of Law and Public Health , and Rutgers University
Barbara Ehrenreich , Author, Charlottesville
Co-presented with the Committee on Health Inequalities
and the Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life

26 January
The Coming Pandemic: Is the U.S. Prepared?
Mark Rothstein, J.D., Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine
and Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law,
University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY
Lisa G. Kaplowitz, M.D., M.S.H.A., Deputy Commissioner, Emergency Preparedness and Response Programs, Virginia Department of Health
Copresented with the School of Law
and the Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life

2 February
Richardson Memorial Lecture    
How Not to Fix Mistakes: Do We Really Want Health Care to Be More Like the Airline Industry?   
Charles Bosk, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

9 February
Blues Biology
Corey Harris, Musician, Charlottesville, VA

16 February
Song and Dance: Poems
Alan Shapiro, Poet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Co-presented with the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English

23 February 2005
Readers' Theatre: Follow Your Heart
Todd Savitt, Ph.D., Department of Medical Humanities, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
with UVA Medical Students
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series

2 March 2005
The Political Life of Medicare
Jonathan Oberlander, Ph.D., Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

9 March 2005
Music and Medicine

The Honest Doctor and the Hopeful Patient
David M. Bailey, Earlysville, VA
David Schiff, M.D., Department of Neurology, UVA Health System
    

16 March 2005
Attending: A Doctor's Education
Margaret E. Mohrmann, M.D., Ph.D., Program of Humanities in Medicine, Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Department of Pediatrics, UVA

23 March 2005
Samuel Beckett's Rockaby: The Plight of the Solitary Elderly
J. Hunter Groninger, M.D., M.A., PGY-III

30 March 2005
Brain, Belief, Story: The Cultural Dimensions of Pain
David Morris, Ph.D., UVA Program of Humanities in Medicine
Nancy B. Eksterowicz, R.N., M.S.N., Patient Care Services, UVA Health System
 

1 April 2005-- Special Program Co-Sponsored by Humanities in Medicine
Social and Policy Implications of the Human Genome Project
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life

6 April
Spirituality and Medicine
Spiritual Issues in the Care of the Dying
Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D., Ph.D., St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers, Manhattan and the Bioethics Institute of New York Medical College
Co-presented with the St. Anselm Institute
and the Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life

13 April
Koppaka Family Foundation Lecture
Communicating Evidence for Informed Decision-Making
Ronald Epstein, M.D., Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
David Slawson, M.D., Department of Family Medicine, UVA Health System
 

20 April
Words that Harm, Words that Heal
Susanna E. Bedell, M.D., Lown Cardiovascular Center and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Eugene Corbett, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, UVA Health System 

27 April
The Conquest of Pellagra
Charles S. Bryan, M.D., Department of Medicine, University of South Carolina Medical School
Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
 

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The Medical Center Hour is produced weekly throughout the academic year
by the Center for Humanism in Medicine,  University of Virginia
School of Medicine.

For more information, call 434 924 2094.

The University of Virginia School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The UVA School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.   Each physician should claim only those credits actually spent in the activity. The UVA School of Medicine awards 0.1 CEU per contact hour to each non-physician participant successfully completing this educational activity. The CEU (Continuing Education Unit) is a nationally recognized unit of measure for continuing education and training activities that meet specific educational planning requirements. The UVA School of Medicine maintains a permanent record of participants who have been awarded CEUs.