A continuing conversation about surgery’s role in fighting systemic racism featuring

Keynote Speaker: Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD
“What History Reveals in Our Understanding of U.S. Medicine”
With Special Guest Speaker India Walton
A Panel discussion to follow

Alumni, Faculty, Residents, Students and Community are invited to join us! Register here.

About our Keynote Speaker: Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD
Professor Cooper Owens is The Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Director of the University’s Humanities in Medicine program.  Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA Press) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the OAH as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history. Professor Cooper Owens is an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Program in African American History
at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

“The University at Buffalo’s Department of Surgery is committed to sustained action toward a more diverse and equitable world. This is our collective responsibility as physicians and surgeons in the 21st century. I have every confidence that, working together, we can create real and lasting change. Please join us.” –Steven Schwaitzberg, MD, FACS

Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
M&T Lecture Hall: Room 2220
(A zoom link will be provided to those who are unable to attend in-person).