LSL NOW News and Events of the Lamar Soutter Library

Boston Medical Library 20th Annual J. Worth Estes Lecture

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 10:30

Please join us on Zoom for the 20th Annual J. Worth Estes Lecture: “To Protect the Mother and the Baby: Black Infant Mortality in Historical Perspective,” May 2nd, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.

Join historian of medicine Wangui Muigai, Ph.D., as she traces the origins of one of the most enduring health disparities in America: the racial gap in infant survival.

The Labyrinth: Presence and Practice

Friday, April 21, 2023 - 11:32

What happens when five nurse clinicians/PhD students come together in community to apply nursing theoretical constructs to the art of wellbeing? An immersive, nature-oriented, meditational labyrinth drawing attention restoration theory into practice and play. Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing PhD students Wendy Arena, Elizabeth DelSignore, Caitlin Healy, Elizabeth Terhune, and Amelia Toye invite you to step into the experience.

Location: Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Chan Medical School, first floor
Dates: April 24th and April 25th

The Unsolved Pathologies Coffee House, April 20

Monday, April 10, 2023 - 16:10

The April Unsolved Pathologies Coffee House will be on Thursday, April 20, 2023, at 6:15 p.m. in the Lamar Soutter Library. Join us at 6:00 p.m. for coffee, tea, and snacks and at 6:15 p.m. for stories about the successes and challenges in the care and treatment of patients with high-risk breast cancer. For more information and an optional RSVP, see this Google form.

Upcoming talk: "Advancing Maternal Health Equity Among Migrant Communities"

Monday, April 3, 2023 - 13:36

You are invited to join the Lamar Soutter Library, Diversity & Inclusion Office, and Crista Johnson-Agbakwu, MD, Executive Director of the UMass Chan Medical School Collaborative in Health Equity, for her talk on:

“Advancing Maternal Health Equity Among Migrant Communities”

Thursday April 6th, 1-2 p.m. in the ASC Cube & also via Zoom

This event is planned in conjunction with a National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit that is hosted in the Lamar Soutter Library until April 22nd.