Jan 31, 5:00 PM: The Preservation Of The Heart Of Medicine

Please join the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence Lecture for our second lecture of this Academic year! Our speaker will be Dr. Lawrence J. Hergott, from the University of Colorado, whose talk is titled: "The View from Fiesole: Literature, Art and Music in the Preservation of the Heart of Medicine." Dr. Hergott asks how we can use the humanities to look at the modern challenges facing the doctor-patient relationship and medical life. Dr. Hergott is Professor of Medicine and Director of… Show more Outpatient Clinical Services at the Cardiac and Vascular Center at the University of Colorado. Dr. Hergott served for 20 years as an invasive and interventional cardiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Denver before joining the medical faculty at the University of Colorado in 1999. Dr. Hergott has received many awards for outstanding clinical care and excellence in teaching. Dr. Hergott's scholarly interest is in writing essays and poems centering on how medical practitioners and their loved ones lead the medical life. His writings have been published in both medical and literary journals. Additionally, Pulitzer prize-winning author Tracy Kidder was presented the inaugural Hergott Award in Writing, a national award co-sponsored by Southern Methodist University and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Dr. Lawrence Hergott will be speaking on January 31, 2013 from 5pm to 6:30pm. The lecture will take place in the Goldblatt Lobby Conference room, Room H-103. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP at http://tiny.cc/BI-RSVP or call 773-702-3247
Date: January 31, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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