AFILIATE EVENT: Brown's Alpert Medical School Lecture
Dean of Medicine & Biological Sciences Edward Wing will be speaking in Brooklyn at a Bio-Med Advancement event
Alumni,
Parents and Friends…
Join
the
Brown
University
Club
in
New
York
at
a
Special
Evening Featuring
Edward
Wing, M.D.,
Dean
of
Medicine
&
Biological
Sciences
“Health
Care:
What
Will
the
Future
Hold?”
Join
Edward
Wing
for
an
in-depth
conversation
about
the
ever-changing
face
of
health
care
in
Rhode
Island
and
across
the
nation.
Alpert
Medical
School
is
actively
preparing
for
the
future
of
the
profession.
Are
physicians
changing
the
way
they
practice
medicine?
Will
patients
need
to
change
their
expectations?
Dean
Wing
sees
the
potential
problems
and
new
opportunities,
and
is
implementing
change
at
Brown
to
serve
you
and
the
nation.
| Date: |
Thursday, December 6, 2012 |
| Time: |
7:00 pm – 7:45 pm: |
Reception with refreshments |
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7:45 pm– 9:00 pm: |
Introductory and welcoming remarks |
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Speaking program followed by Q & A
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Place:
At
the
home
of
Steven
Pavlakis
’76
MD
’79,
P’05
and
Bonnie
Messing,
351
Pacific
Street,
Brooklyn,
NY.
RSVP:
No
charge
to
attend
but
please
respond
online (Click here) by
Monday,
December
3
so
that
appropriate
seating
and
refreshments
can
be
arranged.
Please
note
that
space
may
be
limited
so
please
RSVP
as
soon
as
possible.
Questions?
Contact
Kimbie
Casten
’08
at
ckimski@gmail.com
or
at
310.489.6260.
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Dr.
Edward
Wing
is
a
graduate
of
Williams
College
and
an
alumnus
of
Harvard
Medical
School.
He
completed
his
internship
and
residency
at
the
Peter
Bent
Brigham
Hospital
in
Boston
and
an
infectious
diseases
fellowship
at
Stanford
University.
Dr.
Wing
began
his
career
in
academic
medicine
at
the
University
of
Pittsburgh,
where
in
his
twenty-one-year
tenure
he
rose
through
the
ranks
to
serve
as
chief
of
infectious
diseases
and
interim
chief
of
medicine.
He
became
chair
of
Brown's
Department
of
Medicine
in
1998.
Dr.
Wing's
research
interests,
continuously
funded
by
NIH
for
two-plus
decades,
are
focused
on
the
immune
host
defenses
against
intracellular
pathogens.
With
strong
clinical
interests
in
infectious
diseases,
HIV,
and
international
health,
he
oversees
programs
in
the
Dominican
Republic,
Kenya,
India,
Cambodia,
Viet
Nam,
and
Russia
that
provide
direct
care
to
hundreds
of
patients,
as
well
as
outstanding
educational
opportunities
for
Brown
undergraduates,
medical
students,
residents,
fellows,
and
faculty.
The
Brown
University
Club
in
New
York
and
the
Brown
Medical
Alumni
Association
thank
Steven
Pavlakis
’76
MD
’79,
P’05
and
Bonnie
Messing
for
hosting
this
event.
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