With Dr. Kenneth Prager, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine and Chair of the Columbia University Medical Center Ethics Committee
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Auditorium, 7th floor of Presbyterian Hospital Building

PLEASE RSVP TO JANA BASSMAN (t. (212) 342-0442; e. jlb2205@columbia.edu)

The Center for Bioethics would like to congratulate our Faculty Associates:

**Dr. Bruce Link,PhD, professor of epidemiology, for his recent grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to develop a U.S.-U.K. comparison of discrimination and disparities in health and health service use

**Dr. Ruth Ottman, PhD, professor of epidemiology (in neurology and the Sergievsky Center), for her grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a study titled "Validation of a Standardized Diagnostic Interview for Epilepsy" to evaluate the accuracy of clinical classification of epilepsy

**Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H., professor of medicine at P&S and of epidemiology in the Mailman School of Public Health, has been named a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Dr. El-Sadr is global director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) at Mailman. Dr. El-Sadr leads one of the largest programs that support HIV prevention, care, and treatment efforts with hundreds of sites across 13 countries in Africa and services that have reached more than 750,000 persons. Dr. El-Sadr also has led research studies to identify effective prevention and management interventions for HIV and tuberculosis.