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  Spring 2008 Season

23 January

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
GLOBAL AND LOCAL STRATEGIES
FOR HEALTHY EATING

Michael P. Timko, Ph.D.
Department of Biology, UVA

Timothy Beatley, Ph.D.
Department of Urban Planning, UVA


30 January

CHANGING VIRGINIA'S
MENTAL HEALTH LAWS:
BEFORE AND AFTER
THE VIRGINIA TECH TRAGEDY

James W. Stewart, III, M.S.W.
Commonwealth Inspector General for Mental Health,
Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services 

Richard J. Bonnie, L.L.B.
Chair, Supreme Court of Virginia's Commission
on Mental Health Law Reform
Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, UVA


6 February

History of the Health Sciences Lecture
BEYOND SAFETY AND EFFICACY:
SHOULD THE FDA CONSIDER
ETHICS IN DRUG APPROVALS?

Fran Hawthorne
Writer on business and social policy, Brooklyn, NY

 

Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series


13 February

WHO'S WORKING FOR WHOM?
THE COMMERCIALIZATION
OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
AND EDUCATION


Patricia M. Tereskerz, J.D., Ph.D.
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, UVA

Madaline Harrison, M.D.
Department of Neurology, UVA

Erik Hewlett, M.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Research, UVA


20 February

BEYOND, NOT BY, THE NUMBERS:
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

Janet Hafler, Ed.D.
Tufts University School of Medicine 


27 February

The Jessie Stewart Richardson Lecture
of the School of Medicine

MEDICAL ERROR AND THE ETHICS
OF FORGIVENESS

Nancy Berlinger, Ph.D.
The Hastings Center


5 March

The Gibson Lecture of the UVA Cancer Center
BONE HEALTH
AND THE CANCER PATIENT:
IT'S NOT JUST FOR WOMEN

Paula Fracasso, M.D.
UVA Cancer Center

Theresa Guise, M.D.
Department of Internal Medicine, UVA

Co-presented with the UVA Cancer Center


12 March

THINKING ABOUT HEALING:
ONE SCHOLAR'S JOURNEY

Brian Stock, Ph.D.
University of Toronto


19 March

HEALING ART:
MUSIC AS MEDICINE
 

Anna Kate Oppenheimer, M.A.
Goucher College


26 March

FINAL EXAM :
A SURGEON'S REFLECTIONS
ON MORTALITY

Pauline Chen, M.D.
Transplant surgeon and author, Worcester, MA


2 April

WHEN THE FAMOUS GET SICK
AND THE SICK GET FAMOUS:
HOW CELEBRITY PATIENTS
INFLUENCE MEDICINE
 

Barron Lerner, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Columbia University

Co-presented with the History of the Health Sciences
Lecture Series


9 April

ON CALL :
CHARTING RESIDENCY THROUGH WRITING


Emily Transue, M.D.,
Polyclinic and University of Washington, Seattle


16 April

THE JOURNEY THROUGH CANCER :
HEALING AND TRANSFORMING
THE WHOLE PERSON

Jeremy R. Geffen, M.D.,
Geffen Visions International, Boulder, CO
 

 

 

 

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