Hedy Wald: "The Role of Medicine During the Holocaust and its Contemporary Relevance: Sustaining Our Moral Compass"

Dr. Hedy Wald comes to Duke for a special lecture on "The Role of Medicine During the Holocaust and its Contemporary Relevance: Sustaining Our Moral Compass." This event is cosponsored by the Provost's Initiative on the Middle East, the School of Medicine and the Trent Center, and the Center for Jewish Studies. Dr. Hedy Wald is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program, and Commissioner, Lancet Commission on Medicine, Nazism, and the Holocaust. She is a Gold Humanism Foundation Harvard Macy Scholar, was a Fulbright Specialist Scholar in medical education for Ben Gurion University of Health Sciences, Israel and a Scholar-in Residence at Oxford University with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism, UK and has presented at over 120 health professions schools and healthcare organizations world-wide. Her creative writing, reviews, and poetry have appeared in literary and medical journals and her work has been featured in major news outlets. Dr. Wald has been cited on X (Twitter) as a medical educator to follow, on #WomeninMedicine Day as a "woman who lifts others up," and as a "voice of conscience and compassion."