Sponsored by The Western Foundation, all lectures are free and open to the public, but tickets are required. His book Awakenings , which chronicles the lives of patients frozen in decades-long sleep, was made into a movie starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.
Sacks writes passionately about the issues of health, disease, care and the human condition.
See above for ticketing details. He has served on the Palestine National Council, which is the parliament in exile of the Palestinian people.