Any medical school with an active AΩA Chapter may host one visiting professor during each academic year. Travel expenses and a $1,500 honorarium for approved visits will be funded by AΩA. Information pertaining to the visit should be submitted on the AΩA website at least six weeks in advance of the visit using the Online Submission link below.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission
Requirements for the Visit
- The visiting professor will provide one full day, or more, of teaching and interacting with students, residents, and faculty.
- The event should be titled the “AΩA Visiting Professorship,” and included on all posters, announcements, press releases and other collateral related to the visit.
- The AΩA Chapter must submit an itinerary for the visit and activities to AΩA at least 30 days prior to the visit.
Required Activities of the Visiting Professor
- Clinical and/or rounds, research discussions, teaching conferences or seminars;
- One or more sessions on leadership and/or medical professionalism;
- Departmental Grand Rounds; and/or
- A major address to the medical school community, or presentation at the annual AΩA banquet.
Organization and Arrangements
The AΩA Councilor, in consultation with the Chapter’s student members and other members of the faculty, must select the visiting professor at least six weeks before the event. The Councilor will then submit the information for the visit on the AΩA website using the Online Submission link below., including:
- Dates of the visit, proposed schedule, and professor’s contact information; and
- Visiting professor’s name, title, affiliation, full address, phone number, E-mail address, and assistant’s contact information.
Submission
Funding provided by AΩA
- Coach airfare and/or standard ground transportation;
- Standard hotel room for one or two nights;
- Visiting professor’s meals, exclusive of official functions planned and funded by the Chapter or school; and
- Honorarium of $1,500. The visiting professor may forgo the honorarium in which case it will be donated to the hosting Chapter. If the visiting professor is an AΩA member, he/she must have active status to be eligible to receive the honorarium.
Expenses expected to exceed the above items must be approved by AΩA prior to the visit. Requests for expense reimbursement must be submitted using the AΩA Expense Reimbursement form.
Questions may be directed to Libby Appel or call (720) 859-4149.
Expense reimbursement requests must be submitted by the visiting professor on the expense form within 60 days. AΩA will reimburse the individual or institution that expended the funds, but cannot make direct payments to vendors.
Past Recipients
2019
Beginning in 2002, Alpha Omega Alpha’s board of directors offered every chapter and association the opportunity to host a visiting professor. Seventy-three chapters took advantage of the opportunity during the 2018/2019 academic year to invite eminent persons in medicine to share their varied perspectives on medicine and its practice. Following is a list of the 2019 Visiting Professors, their home institution, and title of their talk:.
Katrina A. Armstrong, MD (AΩA, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1991), Harvard Medical School,
“Restoring Trust in American Medicine”
Manish Arora, PhD, MPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
“Time and Health”
Michael J. Bamshad, MD (AΩA, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, 1988), University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine,
“Genetic Basis of Mendelian Conditions”
Lauren Barron, MD (AΩA, The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, 2012), Baylor College of Medicine,
“The Pharos: Then and Now”
Monica Bharel, MD, MPH (AΩA, Boston University School of Medicine, 1998), Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health,
“The State of the Public’s Health in Worcester, Massachusetts”
Dowin Boatright, MD, Yale School of Medicine,
“Understanding Microaggressions in Health Professions Learning Environments”
Irwin M. Braverman, MD (AΩA, Yale School of Medicine, 1955), Yale School of Medicine,
“How Wax, Limestone, and Paper Became the Foundation of Medical Education”
Virginia Broudy, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine,
“Lymphoma in People Living with HIV”
Christine K. Cassel, MD (AΩA, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 1998), University of California San Francisco School of Medicine,
“Leadership in Medicine, 2020 and Beyond: What Will Doctors Be?”
Sarah L. Clever, MD (AΩA, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1998), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
“Lighting Our Way Forward: Courage, Compassion, and Hope in the Face of Bias”
Adam L. Cohen, MD, MPH (AΩA, West Virginia University School of Medicine, 2000),Medical Officer, World Health Organization,
“What Killed More Children Worldwide Than HIV, Malaria, and Measles Combined? A Vaccine Success Story”
Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
“From Health Disparities to Health Equity: Thinking Locally and Acting Globally”
Mitchell E. Deshazer, MD (AΩA, The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, 2010), East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine,
“Limitations of Evidence Based Medicine”
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD (AΩA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 1998), University of California San Francisco School of Medicine,
“No One Cares How Much You Know”
E. Wesley Ely, MD (AΩA, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1989), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,
“The Legacy of Learning Medicine at Tulane and Charity: Paying it Forward Through Robust Research”
Daniel Epner, MD, FACP, MD Anderson Cancer Center,
“The Power of Stories to Teach and Inspire”
Malika Fair, MD, MPH, FACEP, Senior Director of Health Equity Partnerships and Programs, Association of American Medical Colleges,
“Addressing Health Disparities”
Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, Pulitzer Prize winning author,
“Health Care Emergency Preparedness and Response: Triage, Ethics, and Response”
Senait Fisseha, MD, JD (AΩA, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 1999), founder of the Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT) at the University of Michigan,
“Global Health—Delivered by Women, Led by Men”
Rosemary Gibson, MS, Senior Advisor for The Hastings Center,
“The U.S. Medicine Chest: Growing Reliance on China”
Douglas A. Girod, MD, FACS (AΩA, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, 1984), University of Kansas,
“Advancing Women in Health Care”
Alexander Green, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School,
“Thinking Outside The Box: A Person-centered Approach to Health Care Across Cultures”
Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, MPH (AΩA, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 1992), Indiana University School of Medicine,
“The Difference Between What is Easy to Count and What Really Counts”
Paul M. Haidet, MD, MPH (AΩA, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 1991), Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine,
“Finding Your Voice as a Physician”
Eve J. Higginbotham, SM, MD (AΩA, Morehouse School of Medicine, 2008), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
“Practicing Professionalism in the 21st Century”
Laura Hirshbein, MD, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School,
“Medical-Commercial Collaborations: A Perspective from the History of the Tobacco Industry”
Christopher Hogrefe, MD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine,
“Now What? The Plan After Achieving Your Dreams in Medicine (and Other Life Lessons From Neil Young)”
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD (AΩA, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2008), Baylor College of Medicine,
“Vaccines, Autism, and Blue Marble Health”
Yasmin Hurd, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
“Translating the Neurobiology of Addiction for Novel Treatments of Opioid Use Disorder”
David H. Johnson, MD (AΩA, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, 1975), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas,
“Health Care 2.0: Who Will Lead the Way?”
Perri Klass, MD, New York University School of Medicine,
“Secrets and Stories in Medical Lives”
Elliot Levine, MD (AΩA, New York Medical College, 2019), New York Medical College,
“Heart Transplantation—‘If I Only Had a Heart’”
George E. Loss, MD, PhD, FACS (AΩA, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, 2019), Ochsner Health System,
“Restarting Your Program: The Drive for Quality”
Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD (AΩA, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, 1986), Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine,
“Reflections on Entering Medicine”
Arnold W. Malcolm, MD, MBA (AΩA, Meharry Medical College, 1973), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine,
“Are We Losing the Art of Medicine?”
Kimberly Manning, MD, Emory University School of Medicine,
“Humanism in Medicine”
Suja Mathew, MD, FACP (AΩA, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, 1997), Chair of Medicine, Cook County Health & Hospitals,
“The Cost of Health Care and the Underserved”
Gregg S. Meyer, MD, MSc (AΩA, Albany Medical College, 1984), Harvard Medical School,
“The Evolution of the U.S. Health Care Marketplace”
Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD (AΩA, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1988), University of Michigan Medical School,
“Cardiac Arrest Research: The Journey of a Lifetime”
L. James Nixon, MD, MHPE, University of Minnesota Medical School,
“Sarah Always Has a Smile and Samuel is Just So Smart: Implicit Bias and its Role in Medical Education”
Marcella Nunez Smith, MD, MHS (AΩA, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, 2001), Yale School of Medicine,
“What Are the Performance Measures for Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Mission”
Abraham Nussbaum, MD, MTS, University of Colorado School of Medicine,
“Taking the Reading Cure for Physician Resiliency,” and “Kill Yr #: Developing a Professional Identity Through Failure and Joy”
K. Patrick Ober, MD (AΩA, Wake Forest School of Medicine, 1995), Wake Forest School of Medicine,
“A Lifetime of Healing”
Amit Pahwa, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, “Why We Must Choose Wisely”
Daniel G. Petereit, MD, FASTRO (AΩA, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, 2004), University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine,
“Addressing Cancer Disparities in American Indians—A Model For Community Research”
Roberto Pineda, MD (AΩA, University of Minnesota Medical School, 1989) Harvard Medical School,
“The Boston Keratoprosthesis: Where Are We Now?”
Megan L. Ranney, MD, MPH (AΩA, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2004), Alpert Medical School of Brown University,
“Preventing Gun Violence: This Is Our Lane”
Kyle E. Rarey, PhD, University of Florida College of Medicine,
“Our Visible Intangibles”
Lynn Roberts, PhD, The City University of New York,
“Praxis: A Primer on Reproductive Justice for Physicians”
Michael Roizen, MD (AΩA, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, 1970) Chief Wellness Officer, Cleveland Clinic,
“Why 6+2 is the Best Thing for You, Your Family, Your Patients, Your Health System, and Your Country”
Marc R. Rosen, MD, Sidney Kimmel Medical College,
“The Evolution of Endoscopic Endonasal Skull Base Surgery”
Paul B. Rothman, MD (AΩA, Yale School of Medicine, 1984), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
“The Promise of Medicine”
Robert Sackstein, MD, PhD (AΩA, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, 2019), Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine,
“Mastering Knowledge”
Diane Shannon, MD, MPH, Health Care Author,
“Safeguarding Your Clinical Career: Thriving in an Age of Burnout”
Mona Siddiqui, MD, MPH, Chief Data Officer, Department of Health and Human Services,
“Data Driven Government”
Stuart Slavin, MD, Med, (AΩA, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 1984), Senior Scholar for Well-being , Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education,
“Thriving as a Physician”
Wiley Souba, MD, ScD, MBA (AΩA, University of Texas McGovern Medical School, 1978), Dartmouth Medical School,
“Flipping the Professionalism Paradigm;” and
“The Leadership Journey;” and
“When Life Shows Up As Hittable,” and
“Leadership in Medicine”
Joseph Stubbs, MD, (AΩA, Emory University School of Medicine, 1978), Albany Internal Medicine,
“Different Roads, Same Directions”
Dean C. Taylor, MD, Duke University School of Medicine,
“How Can We Tackle the Complex Health Care Challenges of Today and Tomorrow? Through Distributed Ethical Leadership! Lessons Learned and a Discussion on How We Get Better”
Stephen Trzeciak, MD, MPH, (AΩA, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2010), Cooper Medical School of Rowan University,
“Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference”
James A. Tulsky, MD (AΩA, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, 1987), Harvard Medical School,
“Communication in Serious Illness: Behind the Closed Door”
Mark Tyndall, MD, ScD, FRCPC, University of British Columbia,
“The Role of Harm Reduction in Responding to the Overdose Crisis in North America”
Harold E. Varmus, MD (AΩA, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1964), Nobel Prize Winning Physician Scientist,
“Cancer Research, Then and Now”
Selwyn M. Vickers, MD (AΩA, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, 2002), University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine,
“Strategies and Novel Strategies for a Lethal Tumor: Pancreatic Cancer”
Paul M. Wallach, MD (AΩA, University of South Florida College of Medicine, 1984), Indiana University School of Medicine,
“Responding to Pandemic Influenza, Ebola, Zika, and Other Infectious Disease Threats”
Mary E. Wilson, MD (AΩA, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 1970), University of California San Francisco School of Medicine,
“Bugs and Drugs: A Shifting Landscape”
James O. Woolliscroft, MD (AΩA, University of Michigan Medical School, 2008), University of Michigan,
“Lessons From My Journey”
Sherry M. Wren, MD, FACS, FCCM, FRCS, Stanford University School of Medicine,
“Service to Scholarship: Evolution of Global Surgery and Academics”
Jerry R. Youkey, MD (AΩA, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, 2016), University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville,
“Meaningful Work—The Antidote for Burnout”
2018
Beginning in 2002, Alpha Omega Alpha’s board of directors offered every chapter and association the opportunity to host a visiting professor. Sixty-five chapters took advantage of the opportunity during the 2017/2018 academic year to invite eminent persons in American medicine to share their varied perspectives on medicine and its practice. Following are the participating chapters and their visitors.
Alabama
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Brian Appleby, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
“Prion Disease”
Arkansas
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
Walter Wilson, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
“A Personal History of the Care of Infective Endocarditis”
California
University of California Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine
Vineet Arora, MD, University of Chicago
“Using the FORCE to Teach Value in Academic Health Centers”
University of California Davis, School of Medicine
Joseph Rencic, MD, Tufts Medical School
“Clinical Reasoning at the Bedside”
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Stuart Slavin, MD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
“Medical Professional Mental Health: Challenges and Opportunities”
Stanford University
Wiley Souba, MD, ScD, MBA, Dartmouth Medical School
“Seeing Differently: The Leader’s Edge, The Responsibility that Comes with Privilege, Unleashing the Leader Within”
Colorado
University of Colorado School of Medicine
T.R. Reid, BA, Health Care Journalist for NPR & Washington Post
“Healing of America-The Quest for Fair, Quality, & Cost Effective Care”
District of Columbia
George Washington University School of Medicine
Mohammed Aziz-Sultan, MD, Harvard Medical School
“Stroke Prevention”
Florida
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Howard Francis, MD, MBA, FACS, Duke University Medical Center
“Journey into Otolaryngology / Neurotology: Obstacles, Achievements and Work-Life Balance”
University of Central Florida
David Adams, MD, FACS, Medical University of South Carolina
“The Mythic March of Medical Progress: Revolution or Evolution?”
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, University of California San Francisco
“No One Cares How Much You Know”
Florida International University
James Patrick O’Leary, MD, FACS, Florida International University
“Discovery”
USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
Deborah Kuhls, MD, FACS, University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine
“Preventing Suffering Caused by Injury and Disease: Reflections of a Trauma Surgeon”
Georgia
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Sonja Rasmussen, MD, MS, Center for Disease Control
“Responding to Pandemic Influenza, Ebola, Zika and other Infectious Disease Threats”
Hawaii
University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine
Benjamin Gilmer, MD, MS, UNC School of Medicine – Chapel Hill
“Reverence for Life: Finding compassion in medicine.”
“Uncovering our perceptions: The Tale of two Dr. Gilmers.”
“Discovering a path of advocacy in medicine.”
Illinois
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
James O’Connell, MD, Harvard Medical School
“Lessons from the Street: Three Decades Caring for Boston’s Rough Sleepers”
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“Professionalism in the 21st Century”
Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
John Newman, MD, Vanderbilt University
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science
Frank Opelka, MD, FACS, American College of Surgeons
“Surgery & AΩA Success”
Indiana
Indiana University School of Medicine
K. Patrick Ober, MD, Wake Forest Baptist Health
“A Life of Healing”
Iowa
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Sara Brenner, MD, MPH, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
“The Future of Medicine: Human Health at the Crossroads of Science, Technology, and Policy”
Kansas
University of Kansas School of Medicine
Anna Lembke, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
“The Opioid Epidemic: What Health Care Providers Can Do”
Kentucky
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Dyrbye Liselotte, MD, MHPE, Mayo Clinic
“Becoming a Physician is an Occupational Hazard”
Louisiana
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport
George Karam, MD, Louisiana State University Health Baton Rouge
“Symbolic Challenges of the White Coat”
Tulane University School of Medicine
Larry Hollier, Jr. MD, Baylor College of Medicine
“Leadership in Complex Times”
Maryland
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Paul Offit, MD, University of Pennsylvania
“How to Communicate Science to the Public or Die Trying”
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Gust Bardy, MD
“Cardiac Resuscitation: State of the Art”
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MPH, Yale University School of Medicine
“What are the performance measures for diversity, inclusion, and social mission”
Massachusetts
Boston University School of Medicine
Shale Wong, MD, University of Colorado
“Parents, Peers, Pediatricians and Policy: Working Together to make Health Whole”
Michigan
University of Michigan Medical School
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, University of California San Francisco
“Clinical Problem Solving”
Mississippi
University of Mississippi School of Medicine
John Zic, MD, Vanderbilt University
“Lessons in Leadership”
Missouri
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, University of California Los Angeles and Harvard University
“Zoobiquity”
University of Missouri—Columbia School of Medicine
Kimberly Templeton, MD
“Leadership in Medicine”
University of Missouri—Columbia School of Medicine
Thomas Mawhinney, PhD, University of Missouri—Columbia
University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine
Steve Miller, MD, Express Scripts
“A New Vision for Healthcare”
Nebraska
University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Darilyn Moyer, MD, Temple University
“Growing Physician Wings and Other Wisdom Accumulated Along My Journey in Medicine”
New Hampshire
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Matthew Provencher, MD, The Steadman Clinic, Vail
“Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief – Leadership lessons from the Navy to Improve Medical Care”
New Jersey
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Aleksandra Wesolowska, PhD, Medical University of Warsaw
“Human Milk: Saving Pre-term Lives”
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Luke Tomycz, MD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
“Treatment Reractory Epilepsy in Children”
New York
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Emeran Mayer, MD, PhD, University of California Los Angeles
“The Emerging Science and Practice of Brain Gut Microbiome Disorders”
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Wiley Souba, MD, ScD, MBA, Dartmouth College
“Seeing Differently: The Physician Leader’s Edge”
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Lello Tesema, MD, University of Southern California
“Racisim in Medicine – Perspective from Work in the Criminal Justice System”
New York Medical College
William Frishman, MD, New York Medical College
“The Quest for Excellence”
Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Hofstra University
Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD, Perelman Scholl of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“Diversity in Medicine”
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
John Sampson, MD, PhD, MBA, Duke University Medical Center
“Entrepreneurship in Medicine”
State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine
Wayne Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, SUNY Downstate
“Health Disparities and Health Inequity: A Call to Action”
Albany Medical College
Murray Korc, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine
“Obesity, Diabetes, and Chronic Pancreatitis: Connections to Pancreatic Cancer”
North Carolina
Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
MaCalus Hogan, MD, University of Pittsburgh
“Creating Value Beyond the Operating Room”
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, Duke University
“Reflections on a Career in Medicine”
Ohio
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Stuart Slavin, MD, Med, St. Louis University School of Medicine
The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, AAMC Executive Vice President
“Is Academic Medicine Under Siege or Entering a Bright New Day?”
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Amy Abernethy, MD, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine
“Observations from the Interface of Medicine & Tech: Leading Through Influence and Inspiration”
Pennsylvania
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Taylor Riall, MD, PhD, University of Arizona, Banner University Medical Center
Puerto Rico
Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine
Timothy Brennan, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
“Substance Abuse Disorders and the Impact on the Family and Society”
Ponce Health Sciences University
Jesse Aleman Ortiz, MD, Ponce Health Sciences Center
“End of Life Care”
University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
Paul Haidet, MD, Pennsylvania State University
“Improvisational Aspects of Doctor-Patient Communication”
Rhode Island
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Griffin Rodgers, MD, ScB, MMSc, NIH
“The Clinical & Economic Imperative of Diabetes Prevention”
South Carolina
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Helen Haskell, MA
“Patient Safety and Medical Errors”
South Dakota
University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
Tom Geilhaus, MD, University of Iowa
“Words of Wisdom”
Tennessee
University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
Norman Fost, MD, MPH, University of Wisconsin
“What Is Wrong With Genetic Engineering?”
East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine
Tyler Reimschisel, MD, MPHE, Vanderbilt University
“Leadership in Medicine”
Texas
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Robert Carpenter, MD, MPH, Baylor Scott and White
“Physician Wellness and Resiliency”
University of Texas McGovern Medical School
Steven Miles, MD, University of Minnesota
“Gun Mortality: A Public Health Perspective”
University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine
Timothy Harlan, MD, Tulane University
“Culinary Medicine in Clinical Practice”
Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine
Doug Paauw, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine
“What Matters Most”
Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, University of Indiana
University of Virginia School of Medicine
David Ansell, MD, MPH, Rush University
“The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills”
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Wiley Souba, MD, DSc, MBA, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
“Seeing Differently: The Leader’s Edge”
Washington
University of Washington School of Medicine
Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
“Practicing Professionalism in the 21st Century”
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