FYI.  Please try to send at least one Hunter student to represent us at this event!  

 

I am hosting at NYU SoM a wonderful seminar on April 30th at 6PM by Dr. Harold Freeman, information below. Please inform colleagues and students and attend if you can.

Poverty, Culture, and Social Injustice: Determinants of Health Disparities
Harold P. Freeman, M.D., Senior Advisor to the Director, National Cancer Institute
President, Founder, and Medical Director, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention

Monday, April 30, 2007 at 6:00pm
1st Floor Smilow Seminar Room

Harold P. Freeman, M.D., is senior advisor to the director of the National
Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, Maryland.  He is directly responsible for
strategies to achieve NCI’s 2015 goal to eliminate the suffering and death
due to cancer in minority and underserved communities. Dr. Freeman is also
president, founder, and medical director of the Ralph Lauren Center for
Cancer Care and Prevention in New York, New York. He is a professor of
clinical surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
also in New York. For twenty five years (1974–1999), Dr. Freeman was
director of surgery at Harlem Hospital in New York and, for a two year
period ending in 2001, Dr. Freeman served as the president and CEO of North
General Hospital in New York.

Sponsored by the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Center for the Health of the African Diaspora


Warm regards,

Mekbib Gemeda

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Mekbib Gemeda
Assistant Dean for Diversity Affairs and Community Health
New York University School of Medicine
550 First Avenue, SLH
New York, NY 10016
Tel. 212 263 8948
Fax. 212 263 6526

www.med.nyu.edu/diversity_affairs
 
Www.justgarciahill.org

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