The Harold Alper, MD, Endowment Humanitarian Community Lecture Series and Award presentation will be held on April 9 featuring speaker Yasmin Meah, MD, of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
For the third consecutive year, the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga, in conjunction with The Baroness Erlanger Foundation and the family of the late Harold Alper, MD, will sponsor the community lecture and recognize medical residents for outstanding performance.
Dr. Meah will present “Humanistic Goals in the Face of Dehumanizing Forces: A Hitchhiker’s Guide,” at the Grand Round lecture on Friday, April 9, 8-9:30 a.m., in the Probasco Auditorium on the Erlanger Baroness Campus.
Following the lecture, the recipient of the Dr. Harold Alper Endowment Humanitarian Award will be announced. The award will be presented to the graduating resident who has consistently demonstrated qualities of integrity, respect and compassion in the care of patients and their families throughout residency training.
This year, the 13 nominees for the award are: Joshua Arnold, MD; B. Shane Asbury, MD; Brent Campbell, DO; Kristi Hawken, MD; Michael Hogan, MD; Philip Johnson, MD; Ahmad Kaako, MD; Ashley Laing, MD; Julian “J.P” Price, MD; Philip Ramsay, MD; English Rockholt, MD; Molly Tveite, MD and Jennifer Williams, DO.
The Community Lunch Lecture sponsored by the Dr. Harold Alper Endowment will take place on Friday, April 9, 12-1:30 p.m., in the Chattanooga Room at the UTC University Center. The topic of Dr. Meah’s lecture will be “Am I a Good Doctor? Humaneness and Humanness in Theory and in Practice.”
Following the lunch lecture, attendees are welcome to stay for the presentation of the Dr. Harold Alper Humanitarian Award to the resident recipient and the induction ceremony of the UT College of Medicine Chapter of the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society. The Gold Humanism Honor Society is an international association dedicated to the values of humanism and professionalism. The University of Tennessee GHHS Chapter works within and beyond medical education to inspire, nurture, and sustain lifelong advocates and activists for compassionate patient care.
Physicians, nurses, residents, medical students and other healthcare professionals are invited to attend all events. Continuing Medical Education credits will be available for the Grand Rounds Lecture and the Community Lecture. The lunch lecture is open to members of the medical community, and lunch will be provided for registered participants. For more information and registration, contact UTCOMC’s Office of Continuing Medical Education at 778-6884 or CME@Erlanger.org.
Dr. Meah, assistant professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1998. After completing an internal medicine residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, she joined the institution as faculty.
Dr. Meah spends much of her clinical time visiting patients in their homes through the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, the country’s largest academic practice of home care physicians. She also serves as chief attending physician and program director for the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership, Mount Sinai’s first student-run attending directed clinic for the uninsured of neighboring East Harlem. For her work with the Visiting Doctors Program and EHHOP, she became the youngest recipient of the American Association of Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine award in 2007.