Wednesday, September 23, 2009; 5:00 p.m.: A presentation and book signing by Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, of Harvard University, author of the book Prescribing By Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease (2007, Johns Hopkins University Press), will take place in the Rare Book Room of the Lamar Soutter Library. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at UMass Medical School.
Thursday, October 15, 2009: "Navigating the Art of Medicine," a talk and book signing by David Watts, MD, NPR commentator, inventor, poet, gastroenterologist, and author of The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office. Library's Rare Book Room, 5:30 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009: "Personal Stories, Political Change: Women Physicians and American Medicine," a talk and book signing by Ellen More, PhD., LSL Office of Medical History and Archives and Professor of Psychiatry, UMMS, editor of Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine. Library's Rare Book Room, 5:00 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010: "The Art of Anatomy," a talk by Anne Gilroy, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, UMMS, and author of Atlas of Anatomy. Library's Rare Book Room, 5:00 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010: A talk and book signing by Lucy M. Candib, MD, Professor, and Sara Shields, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMMS, editors of Women-Centered Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010: The Sixth Annual Gerald F. Berlin Awards for Creative Writing Ceremony and Reading, honoring the UMMS winners of the creative writing contest. Co-sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and the Office of Medical Education.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010: A talk and book signing by Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains and Strength in What Remains. Event co-sponsored by the Worcester District Medical Society.