Annual Robert S. Gordon Jr. Lecture with Dr. Lisa Cooper

NIH Director ’ s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series Annual Robert S. Gordon Jr. Lecture Named in honor of Robert S. Gordon, Jr., former Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service and Special Assistant to former NIH Director James Wyngaarden, the lectureship now is part of the Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series. Topics focus on clinical research and epidemiology. Speakers are selected by the NIH Office of Disease Prevention (ODP). Our speaker on May 17, 2023, is Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a core faculty member in the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, and she holds a joint appointment in the School of Nursing. Dr. Cooper was born in Liberia, West Africa, where she witnessed the effects of social deprivation on the health of many of her fellow citizens and developed the passion for her career in medicine and public health.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/walsAir date: 5/17/2023 2:00:00 PM
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