Kathryn Montgomery, director of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program and professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University, speaks on “Learning from Patients: Physicians in Literature and Life” for the annual Perez-Mesa lecture sponsored by the MU Center for Health Ethics.
Dr. Montgomery is the director of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program and Professor of Medical Humanities, Bioethics and Medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She is a world renowned author publishing such books as “Doctors’ Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge,” and “How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine.” Additionally, Dr. Montgomery is involved in research involving the use of literature in medical education and the epistemology of medicine.
Carlos Perez-Mesa, MD, held many appointments at the MU School of Medicine, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, and the Cancer Research center of Columbia. He was a respected cancer researcher, clinician, and teacher. He also was a loving husband and father who was passionate about the arts and humanities.
An endowed Carlos Perez-Mesa, MD, Lectureship in Medical Humanities has been established at MU in his honor to further discussions that focus on the art and ethics of medicine.
Reception follows.
April 30, 2009 – 7 p.m.
Reynolds Alumni Center
University of Missouri
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