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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Rikki Gaber Caffrey, DBe, MA, MS, LCGC, HEC-C
Director
Advocate Health Ethics Program, Midwest Region
Certified Genetic Counselor

Current Ethical Challenges in Cancer Genetic Testing and Management

The promise of personalized preventive medicine in the oncology space aspires for better health outcomes for patients through application of screening and management based on individual, specific risks for illness or disease. Genetic testing/screening plays an integral role in this approach, and issues with equitable access and utility of results abound. Because of the medical implications of cancer genetic testing and the financial cost attached to recommended management, ensuring health equity in cancer detection and prevention must be made a priority. 

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Riva Lehrer
Artist | Author | Curator

Samantha L. Schroth, PhD
MD Candidate, M3
Medical Scientist Training Program
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Most Disabled people encounter the world of medicine as patients and outside observers. It is unusual to be able to observe and experience what it means to be both—disabled and practitioner.  Riva Lehrer, artist, writer, and Instructor in Medical Humanities, will be joined by Samantha Schroth,  who holds a PhD in Immunology and is currently an MD candidate, for a lively exploration of their differing perspectives, drawn from their overlapping identities.

This lecture will include a brief reading from Ms. Lehrer's memoir, Golem Girl, along with images of her recent work. Ms. Lehrer currently has a solo show at Zolla Lieberman Gallery, including a portrait of a Northwestern physician. 

https://www.zollaliebermangallery.com/riva-lehrer---the-monster-studio.html

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Jessica Jerome, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Health Sciences
DePaul University  

Much More than a Clinic: Chicago's Free Health Centers 1968-1972

Drawing on archival evidence, Professor Jerome documents the emergence and fluorescence of three free health clinics in Chicago in the late 1960s. This lecture traces the centers' forceful removal by the city's Board of Health, and their subsequent replacement by Federally Qualified Health Centers (FHQCs). Professor Jerome argues that the demise of the free centers is exemplary of a broader trend in US health policy of regulating and diminishing the health care options of poor Americans. By highlighting the stark contrast between Chicago's free health centers of the 1960s and the health care services offered by contemporary FQHCs, it’s revealed that there’s a gradual shift from health care rights to accessing care in the US health care safety net.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

In Co-Sponsorship With 

The Galter Health Sciences Library  

Present

A Montgomery Lecture

What Can Stop the Determined Heart and Resolved Will of Man?: 
Innovation, Ethics, and Medicine in Frankenstein

Panel Discussion:  

Moderator:
Gretchen Neidhardt, MLIS, MA 
Librarian, Galter Health Sciences Library and
Learning Center 

Panelists: 
Catherine Belling, PhD 
Associate Professor, Medical Education 

David Kendall Casey 
Medical Student, MD/MA - Medical Humanities and Bioethics 

Megan Crowly-Matoka, PhD 
Associate Professor, Medical Education; Anthropology

Why does the 19th century novel Frankenstein continue to resonate within the medical sciences? As part of the National Library of Medicine exhibition Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, a panel discussion between four members of the Feinberg community will examine the novel and its themes through a medical ethics lens. Each panelist will share their unique perspective and participate in a Q&A with the moderator. 

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in Baldwin Auditorium in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Katie Lattal, MA
Special Collections Librarian
Head, Special Collections Department
Galter Health Sciences Library
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Exploring the First 125 Years of Medical Education at Northwestern

American medical education has undergone multiple instructional reforms since the first American medical school was founded in 1765, to establish a more rigorous curriculum, to provide more clinical experience, or in response to scientific and technological advances, to name a few broad examples. This talk will investigate how medical education has responded to different social movements in American history, focusing on first and second wave feminism and the civil rights movement. This lecture will review the broader context of medical education across the US in the 19th and early 20th centuries before examining how educational policy at the medical school was shaped by social and cultural beliefs of the time. Attendees will be encouraged to discuss these aspects of medical school history as well as the effects of policies on medical education and the profession itself, and to propose avenues for further inquiry.

This lecture is open to the public and will be held in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 E Superior), Chicago Campus. For those outside the Chicago area and anyone who would prefer to attend remotely, a Zoom option is also available.

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