| The University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Medical Center Hour has begun its Fall 2003 weekly series on Wednesdays from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., in the Jordan Conference Center Auditorium.
Founded in 1971 by former dean of the U.Va. School of Medicine, Dr. Thomas H. Hunter, the Medical Center Hour explores current issues and controversies for medicine and society, including topics in contemporary health care, culture, ethics, religion, law, scientific research and public policy. The weekly forums, which are free and open to the public, are produced by the U.Va. Program of Humanities in Medicine.
September 10, 2003
Humanism in Medicine: The Home Visit
Leigh Grossman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, UVA
Arnold P. Gold, MD, President, The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, Englewood NJ
September 17, 2003
Affirmative Action and the Michigan Decision – Implications for Professional Schools John C. Jeffries, Jr., JD, Emerson Spies Professor of Law, Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, and Dean, School of Law, UVA
Randolph J. Canterbury, MD, Professor of Psychiatric Medicine and Associate Dean of Admissions, School of Medicine, UVA
Copresented with the Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life
September 24, 2003
Spirituality and Medicine
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Our Lives with Compassion
Tara Brach, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Founder, Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
Copresented with the Center for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
October 1, 2003
Difficult Dilemmas: Depression and Suicide Among University Students
Inez Okrent, Author and Parent/Suicide Survivor
Russ Federman, PhD, Director, Counseling and Psychological Services, UVA
October 8, 2003
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
Bethany Garrison, Class of 2006, College of Arts & Sciences, and Summer Intern, Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life, UVA
Copresented with the Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life
October 15, 2003
Bice Memorial Lecture of the School of Nursing
The Faces of AIDS (II): Issues of Prevention and Treatment in Developing Countries
Mary Ann Leeper, MBA, PhD, President and CEO, Female Health Company
Copresented with the School of Nursing and the Women's Center
October 22, 2003
The Art of Caring
William F. May PhD, Professor Emeritus of Ethics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX, and Fellow, Institute for Practical Ethics & Public Life, UVA
Richard B. Haines, DMin, Director, Chaplaincy Services and Pastoral Education, UVA
Copresented with the Department of Chaplaincy Services and Pastoral Education
October 29, 2003
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, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
Copresented with the Office of the Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine
November 5, 2003
Men, Women, and Medicine in Ancient Greece
Helen King, PhD, Reader in the History of Classical Medicine, Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK
Copresented with the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Health Sciences Library
November 12, 2003
Without – Writing Love, Death, and Grief
Donald Hall, Poet, Wilmot NH
Copresented with the Department of English (Peters Rushton Bequest and Creative Writing Program), Center for Palliative Care, Forum for Contemporary Thought, Central Virginia Palliative Care Initiative, and Hospice of the Piedmont
November 19, 2003
Richardson Memorial Lecture of the School of Medicine
Singular Intimacies – Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York NY, and Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review
Rebecca Dillingham, MD, Chief Medical Resident (2002-2003) and Fellow in Infectious Diseases, UVA
December 3, 2003
Better Than Well – American Medicine Meets the American Dream
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
John D. Arras, PhD, Porterfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics, UVA
Copresented with the Center for Biomedical Ethics and the Undergraduate Bioethics Program of the College of Arts & Sciences
For information, call 434-924-2094 or see the Humanities in Medicine web site at
www.hsc.virginia.edu/medicine/him/.
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