Past Events

Aaron McDuffie Moore, MD: The Story of Durham's First Black Physician and Founder of Lincoln Hospital
Friday, April 16, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Registration Required
- Endowed Lectureships
Boyarsky Series on Race & Health - Panel Discussion

This event is a conversation about the impact of the life of Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863-1923) on the health of Durham’s Black residents. Panelists discuss his role as a pioneering physician, educator, and driving force behind the establishment of Lincoln Hospital, the first secular, freestanding African American hospital in North Carolina. They also explore Dr. Moore’s legacy for our current times.

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Narrative Medicine: A Patient's Perspective
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Registration Required
- Humanities in Medicine Lecture
In 2006, Dana Creighton was diagnosed with spinocerebellar ataxia, an inherited neurological condition that also took the lives of her mother and several family members. Fifteen years later, she has published a powerful new memoir, A Family Disease: A Memoir of Multigenerational Ataxia, drawing on research in neuroplasticity, personal memories, and medical records to highlight how the stories we tell about illness can create meaning out of trauma. Following a reading from her memoir, Ms. Creighton and her neurologist, Dr. Sneha Mantri, join in conversation.

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Climate Change Series: Finding Our Roots and Looking to Our Future

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Registration Required

Nature's Guardians: What Indigenous Voices Can Teach Us

Lori Byron, MD, St. Vincent Healthcare, Billings, MT
Robert Byron, MD, MPH, Bighorn Valley Health Center, Hardin, MT

The Climate Crisis and Pregnancy

Bruce Bekkar, MD, Women's health physician, author, and educator
Nathaniel DeNicola, MD, MSHP, Caduceous Medical Group

This event is the third in a three-part series of lectures on Climate Change, Health, and Social Justice: Issues, Ethics, and Action. See more information on the series and recordings of previous sessions.
Climate Change Series: Structures and Systems - From Geography to the Workplace

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Registration Required

The Geography of Environmental Inequality

Jeremy Hoffman, PhD
Science Museum of Virginia
Richmond, VA

Healthcare Delivery in the Climate Crisis

Emily Senay, MD, MPH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York City, NY

Existing structures and systems deeply impact the intersectional relationship between climate change, health, and social justice. What are these factors? What issues must be recognized and acknowledged? What must we understand and how should we respond?

This event is the second in a three-part series of lectures on Climate Change, Health, and Social Justice: Issues, Ethics, and Action. For more information and lecture recordings
From Planet to Patient: Understanding Connections, Issues, and Action

Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Registration Required

Connecting Planetary Health and Human Health... Ethically

Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH
University of Washington School of Public Health

Opportunities for Clinical Action at the Intersection of Climate Change and Health Equity

Aparna Bole, MD
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine

From the big picture perspective of a changing planet, moving to a lens on the human and individual level, Drs. Howard Frumkin and Aparna Bole collaboratively discuss the complex interconnections between planetary health and human health. What are the far-reaching impacts of climate change on health? What are the ethical considerations? What are the implications for patients and clinicians? And what are our opportunities and responsibilities for action?

This event is the first in a three-part series of lectures on Climate Change, Health, and Social Justice: Issues, Ethics, and Action. More information and lecture recordings
Remembering a 1979 Moral Moment: Medical Activists, Racial Justice, and Confronting the KKK
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - 5:30pm to 6:45pm

Registration Required
- Endowed Lectureships
Boyarsky Series on Race & Health - Panel Discussion

Following a segment from a recent film about what became known as the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, survivors share why this story is worth remembering, and why it remains relevant to health and racial justice activism today.

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Race and Reproduction: Eugenic Sterilization Revisited
Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Registration Required
- Endowed Lectureships
Johanna Schoen, PhD, Professor of History, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

This talk in the Boyarsky Series on Race & Health analyzes the history of North Carolina’s eugenic sterilization program which operated from 1929-1975 and authorized the sterilization of more than 7,000 people.

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Keepers of the House: Documentary Screening and Discussion
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Registration Required
- Humanities in Medicine Lecture
Discussion to follow.

In this 15-minute documentary video, eight hospital housekeepers talk about their special human relationships with patients and their families and the ways in which they believe their work contributes to healing.

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Creativity & Mental Health

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Registration Required

A discussion marking the 30th anniversary of William Styron's Darkness Visible, a memoir of his depression & recovery.

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Duke Hospital's History: A Conversation about Race and Memory
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Special Event
Damon Tweedy, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Jeffrey Baker, MD, PhD, Director, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics and History

From 1930 to the 1960s, Duke hospital’s wards were segregated by race. Did people of color truly receive “separate but equal” care? In what ways did the civil rights movement successfully challenge these inequities? Did the racism associated with the Jim Crow era collapse, or re-appear in new forms?

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