Medical Ethics Lecture Series with the HAM-TMC Library
Each year, the McGovern Center co-sponsors a lecture series in Medical Ethics with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. Each year of the series features lectures from many guest speakers, ranging from scholars in the field to those serving with government agencies to address issues of medical ethics. The lecture series for the 2012-2013 academic year focuses on the theme of vaccines. The schedule is listed below and also available on the Library's website. Each presentation begins at 12:00 pm.
Schedule for Fall 2012—Spring 2013
| September 18, 2012 Texas Medical Center Library |
"Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases: The Neglected Tropical Diseases and Their Impact on Global Health and Development" | Dr. Peter Hotez Founding Dean of the Baylor College of Medicine National School for Tropical Medicine |
| October 18, 2012 Auditorium at the School of Public Health, UTHealth |
"How Will Houston Deal with a Pandemic?" | Dr. David E. Persse Department of Health & Human Services, City of Houston |
| January 24, 2013 MSB 3.001, Medical School, UTHealth |
"Immunization in the US - the Best or Worst in Its Class?" | Dr. Anne Schuchat Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Services |
| February 28, 2013 MSB 3.001, Medical School, UTHealth |
"Emerging Zoonotic Viral Infections: Do They Find Us or Do We Find Them?" | Dr. C. J. Peters Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, UTMB |
| April 3, 2013 Onstead Auditorium, Mitchell Building, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UTHealth |
"Polio: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Crusade" | Dr. David Oshinsky Pulitzer Prize winning author of Polio: An American Story and Professor of History at UT Austin |
| April 11, 2013 Auditorium at the School of Public Health, UTHealth |
"New Vaccines: How and Why ACIP Makes Vaccine Recommendations" | Dr. Larry Pickering National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases |