Please let us know if you know of other faculty members at CWRU or people in neighboring institutions that we should consider recruiting. Plans are being made, and in some cases have been finalized, to bring an impressive list of nationally known speakers to campus for lectures or seminars next year. The Dittrick Center will also host some of the events. The CWRU Center for Biomedical Ethics will be bringing in Warren Reich in the fall as part of their guest lecture series. Similar plans for collaboration are under discussion with the Center for Aging and Health, the Center for the Environment, the Law-Medicine Center, the Health Systems Management Center, the Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations, the Center for Policy Studies, and the College Scholars program.
Plans are underway to bring in at least one and possibly two nationally recognized speakers.
Peter Whitehouse, the School of Medicine and the Baker-Nord Center have committed some funds for this. We will also organize lectures or seminars given by distinguished faculty at CWRU and neighboring organizations. The course may serve as a model for the possible undergraduate minor in society and health. Other undergraduate education opportunities will be developed thorough specific departments. Tom Nosek, Associate Dean for Biomedical Information Technologies at the School of Medicine will support the use of information systems to permit electronic reproduction of public lectures and panel discussions.