On Friday, January 18 at 2 pm we will be screening the documentary, Silent Choices, which explores the abortion debate among African-American women. The screening will be held in the East Viewing Room on the lower level in Sawyer Library. You are welcome to bring a friend with you.
Alissa Caron ’06 will be on campus on Tuesday January 15. After graduating, Alissa earned a MSc in Global Public Health at Oxford and is currently working in global health in Cambodia. She will give an open talk about her path and her work in Cambodia at 4pm in Hopkins Hall, Room 001.
How’d You Get There (more specific information about Alissa Caron’s talk)
I hope everyone had a restful Winter break. The Medical Journal Club will not be meeting during the month of January since many students will be away for Winter Study. However, I encourage all of you to periodically post on the Forum (Medicine in the News, Medical Research, and Graduate/Medical School). We will resume our biweekly meetings on Friday, February 8 at 4 pm. If you have any questions or suggestions please email me.
Eugene Song will be discussing an article from the New England Journal of Medicine: “Peripheral-Blood Stem Cells versus Bone Marrow from Unrelated Donors.” Click here to access the article.
For the Medicine in the News and the TedMed portion of our meeting the theme will be technology in medicine. Eric and I will be discussing two recent New York Times articles about the effect of technology in psychotherapy and the influence of apps and iPads on patient care. We will conclude by watching a really interesting TedMed video, “If you have an artificial heart, does that make you heartless?”
See you on Friday (11/16)!
This Friday the 26th, HMB will be hosting Dr. Steven Albelda ’75, a respiratory oncologist from UPenn Medical School, who will speaking about Academic Medicine in TCL 202 from 4:30-5:30.
What IS Academic Medicine? Come find out.
“The Effect of Safety Net Programs on Food Insecurity”
Economics Department Seminar – given by Lucie Schmidt, Lara
Shore-Sheppard, and Tara Watson; Wednesday, October 24, 4:00PM,
Griffin 7.
Friday, November 2, 4:00PM, Griffin 6 — John Briscoe, Harvard School of Public Health, CDE Seminar Room. The Challenge of Water Security in a Changing World. (Click here to read an interview with John Briscoe addressing the topic of his talk).
We will be meeting in TCL 202 at 4 pm on Friday, October 12. We will be discussing a recently published Nature article: “HIV-infected T cells are migratory vehicles for viral dissemination.”
Philosophy Professor Julie Pedroni will lead a discussion about Question 2 on this year’s Massachusetts ballot, which could legalize physician assisted suicide.
She will also discuss and answer questions about her area of expertise on issues surrounding ethics, law and medicine, and justice and health care.
Paresky 220 at 8pm.
Co-hosted with the Williams College Democrats, Harrison Morgan Brown Pre-Medical Society, and the Medical Journal Club.