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The Dean's Lecture Series: Archives
| 2007-2008 Lectures |
| Date/Time/Location |
Event |
Honoree |
Reception |
Lecture Topic |
Thursday, October 11, 2007
4:30 -5:30 p.m.
Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 401
701 West 168th Street |
Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Thomas C. Südhof, M.D.
Lloyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience
Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Molecular Genetics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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N/A |
"How Calcium Triggers Neurotransmitter Release" |
Friday, October 12, 2007
12:00 noon
Neurological Institute Auditorium, First Floor
710 West 168th Street |
Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Thomas C. Südhof, M.D.
Lloyd B. Sands Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience
Professor, Departments of Neuroscience and Molecular Genetics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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N/A |
"Neurexins and Neuroligins: Towards a Molecular Logic of Neural Circuits" |
Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 401
701 West 168th Street
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The 31st Annual Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture |
Thomas Murray, Ph.D.
President, The Hastings Center |
N/A |
"Changing Values, Changing Goals: New Insights into End-of-Life Care" |
Monday, November 19, 2007
10:00 a.m.
Roone Arledge Cinema,
Alfred Lerner Hall
2920 Broadway
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Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize |
Joseph G. Gall, Ph.D.
Staff Member, Department of Embryology
Carnegie Institution
American Cancer Society Professor of Developmental Genetics |
N/A |
"Chromosome Odds and Ends" |
Monday, November 19, 2007
1:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street,
First Floor
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Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize |
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D.
Morris Herzstein Professor in Biology and Physiology
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco |
N/A |
"Telomeres and Telomerase in Health and Disease" |
Monday, November 19, 2007
3:00 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street,
First Floor |
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize |
Carol W. Greider, Ph. D.
Daniel Nathans Professor and Director,
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Professor of Oncology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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N/A |
“Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction” |
Monday, December 10, 2007
4:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor
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The Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Basic Sciences |
Marian Carlson, Ph.D.
Professor of Genetics & Development
Professor of Microbiology |
To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby |
"SNF1/AMP-activated Protein Kinases: Metabolic Control from Yeast to Humans" |
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
4:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor
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The Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Clinical Sciences |
Donald W. Landry, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Nephrology
Director, Division of Experimental Therapeutics
Interim Chair, Department of Medicine |
To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby |
"Vasodilatory Shock: Bedside to Bench, and Back" |
Thursday, January 31, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 401
701 West 168th Street |
The David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Joseph G. Verbalis, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Physiology
Chief, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Georgetown University |
N/A |
"Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia: the Role of Misinformation, Mismanagement and Myth in Modern Disease"
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Monday, March 10, 2008
4:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor
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The Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
Michel C. Nussenzweig, M.D., Ph.D.
Sherman Fairchild Professor, The Rockefeller University
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby |
"Dendritic Cells and B Cells in Immunity and Tolerance" |
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
4:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor |
The Thomas Q. Morris Symposium on Medical Education |
Glenn Regehr, Ph.D.
Richard & Elizabeth Currie Chair in Health Professions Education Research;
Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto;
Scientist, Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network;
Associate Director, The Wilson Centre
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To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby
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“Self-assessment, self-direction, self-regulation and other myths: Deconstructing the fallacy of the adult learner” |
Thursday, April 24, 2008
4:00 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor |
The Cartwright Lecture |
Bert Sakmann, M.D.
Professor and Director Emeritus, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research
Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine, 1991
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N/A |
"Cortical columns and decision making in the rodent brain" |
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor |
The Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities |
David A. Freedberg
Pierre Matisse Professor of
the History of Art
Director, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
Columbia University |
To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby |
"The Body in Movement: Art, Anthropology and Neuroscience" |
| 2006-2007 Lectures |
| Date/Time/Location |
Event |
Honoree |
Reception |
Lecture Topic |
Wed, Oct. 25, 2006
4:30 -5:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
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The 30th Annual Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture |
Joan Didion
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N/A |
"The Gilded Boy Story and Other Amateur Views"
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Tues, Nov. 21, 2006
12:00 noon
Davis Auditorium, Shapiro Hall
500 West 120th Street, Campus Level
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The 2006 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lectures |
Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D.
Winzer Professor in Medicine
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford School of Medicine |
N/A |
“Chromatin Remodeling for Transcription”
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Tues, Nov. 21, 2006
3:00 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor
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The 2006 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lectures |
Roger D. Kornberg, Ph.D.
Winzer Professor in Medicine
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford School of Medicine
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N/A |
“Mechanism and Regulation of Eukaryotic Gene Transcription” |
Thur, February 1, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 p.m
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street, First Floor |
The 2006-2007 David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Helen S. Mayberg, M.D.
Professor, Psychiatry and Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine
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N/A |
"The Role of Neuroimaging in the Development of Deep Brain Stimulation for Major Depression"
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Thur, February 15, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street
First Floor |
The Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Immunology and Genomic Medicine
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
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To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby |
"Molecular Mechanism for Antibody Memory" |
Wed, March 21, 2007 4:30 5:30 p.m. P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 West 168th Street
First Floor
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The Thomas Q. Morris Symposium on Medical Education |
Molly Cooke, M.D., FACP
William G. Irwin Endowed Chair
Director of the Academy of Medical Educators
Professor of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco
Senior Scholar,
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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To follow in Alumni Auditorium Lobby |
"Clinical Education for the 21st Century Insights from the Carnegie Foundation National Study"
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Tues, May 1, 2007
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 401
701 West 168th Street
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Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture
|
Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D.
Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor
Director, Center for Genome Science
Washington University School of Medicine
|
N/A |
"Dining in with a few trillion friends: Exploring the human gut microbiota and microbiome"
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Wed, May 2, 2007
12:30 p.m.
Hammer Health Sciences Building, Room 401
701 West 168th Street
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Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture
|
Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D.
Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor
Director, Center for Genome Science
Washington University School of Medicine
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Luncheon to follow, HHSC 13th Floor Conference Room |
"Thank goodness for gnotobiotics: Defining the operations of our very complex gut microbiota"
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| 2005-2006 Lectures |
| Date/Time/Location |
Event |
Honoree |
Reception |
Lecture Topic |
Fri, April 7, 2006
12 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Russ Berrie Conference Rooms 1 and 2
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Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D.
Professor, The Salk Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology
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Light lunch will be provided
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"Nuclear Receptors: Metabolic Engineering and the Dawn of Synthetic Physiology"
|
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Thu, Apr 6, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
|
Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D.
Professor, The Salk Institute
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology
|
N/A
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"Nuclear Receptors: PPARs at the Crossroads of Inflammation and Metabolism"
|
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Wed, Feb 22, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
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2004-05 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities |
Andrew Delbanco, Ph.D.
Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities
and Director of American Studies,
Columbia University
|
Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby
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"Melville, Our Contemporary"
|
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Thu, Feb 9, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
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The 2005-2006 David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Jeffrey S. Flier, M.D.
George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief Academic Officer and Harvard Faculty Dean for Academic Affairs
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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N/A
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"The Periphery and the Brain: Critical Conversations in the Control of Energy Balance"
|
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Mon, Nov. 21, 2005
12:00 noon
The Faculty Room, Low Memorial Library
535 West 116th Street |
Horwitz Prize Lectures |
Dr. Ada Yonath
The Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology, Director, Then Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Wiezmann Institute of Science
Horwitz Prize website
|
N/A |
"The Ribosome, an Ancient Biological Machine, is Targeted by Antibiotics" |
Mon, Nov. 21, 2005
3:00 p.m.
New Location
HHSC Room 401
701 West 168th Street
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"Ribosome Architecture, Polypeptides Formation, Protein Folding and Antibiotics Action" |
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Thu, Nov. 17, 2005
4:30-6:30 p.m.
New Location
NY State Psychiatric Institute
1051 Riverside Drive
First Floor Auditorium, room 1601
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Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture |
Max D. Cooper, M.D. Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Reception -Atrium Lobby, NYSPI, First Floor.
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"The Evolution of Adaptive Immunity"
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Thu, Oct. 27, 2005
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
HHSC Room 401
701 West 168th Street
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2004-2005
Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Clinical Sciences
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David A. Brenner, M.D. Chair, Department of Medicine, Samuel
Bard Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
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Reception - Riverview Lounge, HHSC 4th Floor
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"Why the Liver Scars" |
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Wed, Oct. 26, 2005
4:30 -5:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
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The 29th Annual Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture |
Kathleen M. Foley, M.D. Attending Neurologist, Pain & Palliative Care Service,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Clinical Pharmacology, Cornell University Medical College
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N/A |
"Challenges in Advancing Palliative Care: Cure for the Rich, Care for the Poor"
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Mon, Sept. 19, 2005
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
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Thomas Q. Morris Symposium
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David M. Gaba, M.D. Associate Dean for Immersive &
Simulation-based Learning, Professor of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine
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Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby
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"The Route to Patient Safety through Simulation in Medical Education"
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Tue, Sept. 13, 2005
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
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2004-2005
Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Basic Sciences
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James E. Rothman, Ph.D. Director, The
Judith P. Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical
Biology Professor, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University Medical Center
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Reception - Alumni Auditorium Lobby
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"High Throughput Cell Biology and the Columbia Genome Center"
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Wed Feb 9, 2005
12:00 p.m.
Davis Auditorium
500 W. 120th Street, Campus Level
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Special Lecture
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lecture |
Anthony J. Pawson, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
& University Professor, University of Toronto |
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"Modular Protein Interactions in Signal Transduction" |
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Wed Feb 9, 2005
3:00 p.m.
P&S Alumni Auditorium
650 W. 168th Street
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Special Lecture
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize Lecture |
Tony Hunter,
Ph.D. Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
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"Tyrosine Phosphorylation: Past, Present and Future" |
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Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Basic Sciences |
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Reception |
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Tues Jan 25, 2005
Alumni Auditorium
4:30pm-6:30pm
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David Seegal Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Harry Jacobs, M.D., DHC Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota |
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The Danger of Staphylococcal Superantigens: From Toxic Shock Syndrome to Lymphoma and Beyond |
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Tues Dec 7, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
4:30pm-5:30pm
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Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Dr. Michael Karin |
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The IkB Kinase (IKK) Complex: At the Crossroads of Inflammation and Cancer |
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Mon Dec 6, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
5:00pm-7:00pm
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Rudin Distinguished Visiting Professorship Lecture |
Dr. Michael Karin |
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The IkB Kinase (IKK) Complex as a Coordinator of Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses |
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Tues Nov 30, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
4:30pm-6:30pm
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Heidelberger-Kabat Lecture
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Dr. Klaus Rajewsky |
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Antibodies: Essential regulators of normal and malignant B cells |
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Wed Oct 6, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
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Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture & Dinner |
Dr. Arthur Caplan |
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From Karen Quinlan to Terry Schiavo: Has Any Real Progress Been Made in the Withdrawal
and Termination of Medical Treatments |
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Tues Sept 28, 2004
Alumni Auditorium
3:00pm-5:00pm
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Thomas Q. Morris Symposium |
Dr. Haile T. Debas and
Dr. Daniel H. Lowenstein |
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The Academy Movement: Restructuring of Medical Schools to Advance the Mission of Education |
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