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Work in Progress: JUST ROOTS A Randomized Clinical Trial of a Community Supported Agriculture Intervention

MacNider Hall, Room 322 333 So. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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.

The Fabrica, the Epitome, and Issues of Accessibility in Early Modern Anatomy

Wilson Special Collections Library, Room 504

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

2019 McGovern Lecture – Defining Death: Persistent Problems and Possible Solutions

Duke University, Great Hall, Trent Semans Center for Health Education 8 Searle Ctr Drive, Durham, NC

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

Courtesy Stigma and Trans-Attracted Men: Understanding Structural Causes of Violence Against Transgender Women

MacNider Hall, Room 322 333 So. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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

The Newest Negroes: Black Doctors and the Desegregation of Harlem Hospital, 1919-1935.

Duke University Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room Rubenstein Library Room 153 411 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC, United States

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

Clinical Ethics Grand Rounds

4008 Old Clinic Auditorium

  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

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents: Infections in Lung Transplant Recipient: A Whole New World for a Microbiologist

Bondurant Hall, G010 321 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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

Mechanical Circulatory Support: Exploring History to Consider the Risks and Benefits of Technological Advancement

Bondurant Hall Room 2020

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

ACCESS DENIED: NAVIGATING IMMIGRATION AND HEALTHCARE POLICY

039 Graham Memorial Hall.

U N D O C U C A R O L I N A P R E S E N T S  ACCESS DENIED: NAVIGATING IMMIGRATION AND HEALTHCARE POLICY   Sponsored by Humanities for the Public Good, UNC Global, The Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC and Duke, Working Group on Im/migration, Illegality, and Citizenship. undocucarolina presents    … Read more

Building a Learning Health Care Culture: Lessons from Pediatric Oncology

MacNider Hall, Room 321

Pediatric oncology is often held up as the model for learning healthcare systems to emulate. There is much truth—but also a few cautionary notes—in this view. This presentation will describe how pediatric oncology has created a learning healthcare culture, one on which other areas of pediatrics and medicine can build as they seek to improve … Read more