Taylor V. Smith, MA., Diversity Officer, Programs Manager
taylorsmith1@gwu.edu
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences' Office of Diversity and Inclusion invites you to the 5th Annual GW SMHS Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture: Developing a Dangerous Unselfishness, honoring Dr. King's advocacy for human rights featuring LJ Punch, MD as our featured speaker. Dr. Punch loves to heal. They were born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Ohio, the child of a Trinidadian computer specialist and a Polish botanist. Educated in medicine at the University of Connecticut and trained in surgery at the University of Maryland and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, this desire to heal has brought life to a career with a three-fold focus: education, violence, and equity.
As a trauma surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, Dr. LJ Punch's work came to life in various undergraduate and graduate medical education courses focused on the experience of violence-related injury across the entire spectrum of illness and healing. This lecture will provide the audience a thought-provoking talk on bullet-related injuries while re-imagining and advancing Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech to embrace the challenge of eliminating health disparities and transforming health care to enrich and improve the lives of those we serve.
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