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Dr. Matthew Wynia Presented the 17th Bowman Lecture
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP
African American Physicians and Organized Medicine: Acknowledging our Painful Legacy
Thursday, August 7, 2008
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Biological Sciences Learning Center, Room 115 - 924 E. 57th Street
August 11, 2008 — Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP, Director of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association (AMA) presented the 17th Bowman Society Lecture on August 7th. Dr. Wynia oversees the Institute’s Online Fellowship and Visiting Scholars Programs along with a wide range of research projects on topics that include: physician professionalism responses to market pressures in medicine; codes of ethics; medical ethics and the holocaust; understanding the physician’s role in addressing inequities in health and health care; ethics and access to care; and how demographics and technology will change medical practice.
Dr. Wynia is the author of more than 125 published articles, book chapters, and reports. His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Health Affairs and other leading medical and ethics journals. He is contributing editor for bioethics and public health at the American Journal of Bioethics and has been a guest on ABC News Nightline, the BBC World Service, NPR, and other programs. In addition to his work at the AMA, Dr. Wynia is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), past chair of the Ethics Forum of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the Ethics Committee of the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM).
He cares for patients at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases.
The Bowman Society lectures highlight medical research issues and topics that are important to the health care of minority communities. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Bowman Society Lecture Series commenced in 2005 through the generous support of Dr. James E. Bowman, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine, and the Biological Sciences Division’s first tenured African-American Professor.
For more information on past lecturers, please visit the Bowman Society page.
