Advocacy for Change: Celebrating Past Successes and Planning for the Future The William and Ida Friday Center• Chapel Hill, NC Learn more and register: minorityhealth.web.unc.edu Minority Health Conference
Speaker(s): Harris Solomon Join the Franklin Humanities Institute for its new Friday morning series, tgiFHI! tgiFHI gives Duke faculty in the humanities, interpretative social sciences and arts the opportunity to present on their current research to interlocutors in their fields. A light breakfast will be served at 9am. About the presentation: "This paper considers the … Read more
Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH CHER Faculty Associate The Center for Health Equity Research's (CHER) Work In Progress Meetings are a monthly presentation series that allows CHER Post-Doctoral Fellows and Associates to present their research to a community of scholars and peers to gather constructive feedback and generate investigative conversation.
Michael J. Clark, PhD Candidate, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill and 2018 McLendon-Thomas Award Winner This talk will discuss how Andreas Vesalius increased access to human anatomy with the publication of De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem in 1543. By painstakingly designing his illustrations and the corresponding text to accurately represent what … Read more
Robert Truog, MD is Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology and Pediatrics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. He also practices pediatric intensive care medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Truog has published more than 300 articles in bioethics and related disciplines. He is co-author of Death, Dying, and Organ … Read more
Center For Health Equity Research Work in Progress: Courtesy Stigma and Trans-Attracted Men: Understanding Structural Causes of Violence Against Transgender Women Tonia Poteat, PhD, MPH, PA-C CHER Faculty Associate The Center for Health Equity Research’s (CHER) Work In Progress Meetings are a monthly presentation series that allows CHER Post-Doctoral Fellows and Associates to present their research … Read more
Adam Biggs will present "The Newest Negroes: Black Doctors and the Desegregation of Harlem Hospital, 1919-1935." Adam Biggs is faculty at the University of South Carolina Lancaster where he teaches African American Studies and US History. His research examines black doctors and their efforts to address the problem of race in early 20th century … Read more
Anne C. Mosenthal, MD, FACS Chair, Department of Surgery Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Co-hosted with the Department of Surgery and the Palliative Care Program
Presented by: Peter Gilligan, Director of Clinical Microbiology, UNC-Chapel Hill Dr. Peter Gilligan is a professor of Microbiology-Immunology and Pathology-Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Director of the Clinical Microbiology-Immunology Laboratories at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. He is a member of the Center for Infectious … Read more
THE CLINICAL ETHICS DISCUSSION GROUP (CEDG) PRESENTS: Mechanical Circulatory Support: Exploring History to Consider the Risks and Benefits of Technological Advancement. CEDG presents a discussion of how the historical development of the artificial heart and other means of mechanical circulatory support (MCS) inform contemporary practice and of the ethical issues that follow from such technologic advancement. What unique challenges are … Read more
