Suzanne Kurtz, professor of communication in the faculties of medicine and education at the University of Calgary in Canada, will present this year's Bayer Lecture at
5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 17, in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.
The talk, cosponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine, is free and open to the public.
In her lecture, titled "Communicating in Health Care: What's All the Fuss?" Kurtz will suggest that the ancient Greeks should be blamed for the way health care providers interact with patients, since the Greeks started formal communication education. Since then, Kurtz will maintain, everyone from licensing bodies to researchers to patients wants health care professionals to switch from a "shot put" approach to communication in medicine to an interactive "frisbee" approach. Kurtz will offer some suggestions for health care professionals to advance to a professional level of competence.
Kurtz has focused her career on improving communication practices in health care and education and on developing curricula and methods for teaching and learning communication skills. She has worked with a variety of groups in the health care field, on both the national and international
levels.
Kurtz has been an adviser to the Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication, Health Canada's Canadian breast cancer initiative and Cancer Care Ontario's communication task force. She has also collaborated on communication programs, team building and conflict management in law and business, and on several international development projects related to health and education in Nepal, Southeast Asia and South Africa.
She is co-author of such publications as "Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine," "Skills for Communicating with Patients" and "Participatory Education in Cross-cultural Settings."
Dr. David Brandling-Bennett, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), will discuss "Global Health Trends and Challenges to Universities" as part of the Department of Epidemiology & Public Health's Grand Rounds series.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at noon on Tuesday,
Feb. 15, in the Winslow Auditorium of the Laboratory of Epidemiology & Public Health, 60 College St.
Bennett began his career in public health when he joined the epidemic intelligence service of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1971. He completed a two-year residency in preventive medicine at the CDC and a year of study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, obtaining a diploma in tropical public health.
Bennett has devoted much of his work to developing countries, spending time in Central America, Thailand and Kenya. While in these areas, he was involved in researching and controlling tropical and vaccine-preventable diseases and in training epidemiologists.
In 1989, Bennett joined the PAHO, the regional office of the Americas for the World Health Organization, as the coordinator of the health situation and trend assessment program. He was appointed director of the division of communicable disease prevention and control in 1993 and deputy director of the PAHO in 1995.
W.W. Covington, the Regents' Professor and director of the ecological restoration program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, will present the sixth lecture in the lunchtime series "The Restoration Agenda: Blueprint 2000."
Covington's talk, titled "Wildfire, Stakeholders, and Thinning of Arizona Ponderosa Pine," will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium at Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Participants are welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch for the discussion following the talk. For information, contact Aimlee Laderman at (203) 432-3335.
Covington's work focuses on fire ecology and the restoration ecology of ponderosa pine ecosystems, the most extensive type of western long-needled pine ecosystems. Restoration ecology involves research and management experimentation to determine ways for safely restoring degraded ecological systems to nearly natural conditions. The goal is to alleviate ecosystem health problems by emulating the structure, function, diversity and dynamics of the specified ecosystem. With his research, Covington is seeking to determine the range of conditions that existed in the ponderosa pine ecosystem before the overgrazing, old-growth logging and fire suppression of Euro-American settlement and to reverse this on-going degradation.
Covington graduated in 1976 from Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where he did his doctoral work with the eminent ecologist F.H. Bormann. Covington is co-chair of the science and policy working group of the society for ecological restoration and is lead author on an inter-agency restoration ecology synthesis paper. He has been invited repeatedly to testify before Congress and received the 1999 Governor's Pride in Arizona Award for environmental leadership.
Sponsored by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, the fifth annual "Restoration Agenda" is dedicated to the memory of the eminent ecologist and restorationist William A. Niering, professor of botany at Connecticut College and a frequent participant in the series, who passed away last summer. The series is designed to forge a guide to environmental revitalization and related research required for the forseeable future.
Soprano Eileen Farrell will be the guest at a tea at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 17, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
Farrell's career spanned both popular music and opera. Although noted for her leading roles in such operas as "Alceste," "Medea," "Andrea Chenier," "Forza," "Il trovatore," and "Ariadne auf Naxos," Farrell was equally at home singing with the likes of Frank Sinatra.
Farrell will talk about the events described in her autobiography, titled "Can't Help Singing," recently released by Northeastern University Press. Farrell will be joined by two faculty members from the School of Music, contralto Lili Chookasian and baritone Richard Lalli, and the executive director of Opera News, Brian Kellow, coauthor of Farrell's autobiography.
Sponsored by the Friends of Music at Yale and Calhoun College, this event is free and open to the public.
Steven Wisensale, associate professor of public policy in the school of family studies at the University of Connecticut, will discuss "Family Leave Policy: An Assessment of the Past, A Look Toward the Future" on Friday, Feb. 18, as part of the Bush Center in Child Development lecture series.
His talk will begin at noon in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The event is free and open to the public.
For information about the talk, call (203) 432-9935.
Wisensale currently serves on a state legislative task force that is exploring the feasibility of establishing a paid family leave in Connecticut. Last year he was invited by the United Nations to serve on an expert panel that addressed world population aging.
Wisensale is the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Connecticut, where he teaches courses in family policy, comparative family policy, family law and aging policy. He has also authored more than 50 published papers.
Richard Tafel, founding president of the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), will discuss "Confrontation and Collaboration: Christianity and Sexual Orientation in the Political Sphere" on Friday, Feb. 18.
The lecture, part of the month-long symposium "Opening Doors: Entering a Conversation on Sexual Orientation and Christianity," will take place at 3 p.m. in Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. Discussion groups will follow the presentation, which is free and open to the public.
LCR is the nation's largest gay and lesbian Republican organization, with over 50 chapters across the country and more than 10,000 members. LCR's first chapter formed in Los Angeles in response to the nation's first anti-gay ballot measure -- California's Proposition 6 in 1978. LCR activists successfully enlisted Ronald Reagan to publically oppose the measure, which was then defeated. In 1990, nine clubs nationwide formed a federation. In 1993, a Washington office opened full time, and the organization created a federal political action committee that raises $100,000 per election cycle for Republican candidates.
Tafel graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1987 and was ordained a minister by the American Baptist Church the following year. From 1989 through 1990, Tafel managed Republican Mike Duffy's race for Massachusetts State Representative. In 1992, Governor William Weld appointed Tafel director of adolescent health programs in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In 1993, Tafel moved to Washington, D.C. to head the national office of LCR.
Sergei Androsov, curator of sculpture and associate curator of western art at the
Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, will deliver a lecture titled "Peter the Great as Collector of Italian Art" on Tuesday, Feb. 22.
Androsov is an expert on Italian Renaissance and Baroque sculpture as well as Russian painting and sculpture of the Petrine and Catherinian periods. His publications include books and studies on Verocchio, Donatello, the Russian painter Ivan Nikitin, Bernini, Russian art patronage during the Petrine period and the history of acquisitions of Western art in the Hermitage. He is a member of three Italian academies, including Ateneo Veneto, and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
In 1998 Androsov organized an exhibition of Italian Baroque terra-cottas from the Hermitage collections at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He is currently working on a study of art patronage in Russia in the 18th century, with a focus on Italian art. This study is partly under the auspices of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
Sponsored by the Woodward Fund, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Department of the History of Art, the lecture will take place at 4 p.m.
in Rm. 268 in Street Hall, 59 High St. Slides will be shown in conjunction with
the lecture, which is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-1300.
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