Event: Humanities in Medicine and Medical Education Program

May 26, 2009

The New York Academy of Medicine
Humanities in Medicine and Medical Education Program
June 1, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.

Oliver Sacks, MD, FRCP, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, will speak on “The Art of Medicine.” 

Dr. Sacks is perhaps best known for his collections of case histories from the far borderlands of neurological experience, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, in which he describes patients struggling to live with conditions ranging from Tourette’s Syndrome to autism, parkinsonism, musical hallucination, epilepsy, phantom limb syndrome, schizophrenia, retardation, and Alzheimer’s Disease.

The program is free, but advance registration is required. 

For further information, contact Malini Doddamani at The New York Academy of Medicine at (212) 822-7285 or [email protected]

The lecture is supported in part by The Greenwall Foundation.