Rounding With... Damon Tweedy, MD

1834 Wake Forest Rd,Winston Salem NC 27109-6000

23 March, 2022

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Dr. Damon Tweedy, Author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine will speak at WFU on March 23rd! SAVE THE DATE for Rounding With... Dr. Damon Tweedy Wednesday, March 23rd at 5:30pmKulynych Auditorium, Porter B. Byrum Welcome Center The Wake Forest University Humanities Institute’s Story, Health, & Healing Initiative presents Rounding With… Damon Tweedy, MD at 5:30pm on Wednesday, March 23rd in the Kulynych Auditorium of the Porter B. Byrum Welcome Center. Rounding With… is a series of mini-symposia, free and open to the public, in which an invited guest working in the field of narrative medicine gives a public reading or lecture and/or facilitates an interprofessional education (IPE) workshop. Dr. Damon Tweedy is an associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health System. He is the author of Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine and has published articles about race and medicine in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune, as well as in various medical journals. This series, free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Wake Forest University Humanities Institute, made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and with support from an Engaged Humanities Grant received by the university from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Contact Aimee Mepham, HI Associate Director, at [email protected], with questions.