Weiswasser Lecture to examine infant mental health
Dr. Charles H. Zeanah Jr., the Sellars Polchow Professor of Psychiatry at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, will visit the campus Tuesday and Wednesday, May 20 and 21.
On Wednesday, Zeanah will give the 16th annual Warren Weiswasser Lecture. Titled “Recovery from Severe Deprivation: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project,”
his lecture will begin at noon in Fitkin Amphitheatre, 15 York St. Zeanah will also give Grand Rounds at the Child Study Center on Tuesday, 1-2 p.m., in the Donald Cohen Conference Room, 230 South Frontage Rd. There, he will discuss “Reactive Attachment Disorder: A Perspective from the Extremes.”
Zeanah’s major academic interests are in the area of infant mental health, especially in understanding infants’ development in the context of the infant-parent relationships in high and low-risk families. He researches infant-parent attachment and psychopathology in infancy, focusing on the effects of violence on infant adaptation. He also studies disturbances and disorders of attachment, posttraumatic symptomatology in young children, and the effects of family violence on infant development.
Zeanah is chief of the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and executive director of the Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Tulane University School of Medicine. In addition, he serves on the board of directors at Fundatia Tulane and on the scientific board at the Institute for Child Development, both in Bucharest, Romania.
The Warren Weiswasser Lecture series was established by friends and family of Warren Weiswasser, a former fellow at the Yale Child Study Center and deputy director of the Community Health Care Plan. The lectureship highlights social and behavioral issues related to children.
Horstmann Lecture to focus on ‘The Cutter incident’
Dr. Paul A. Offit, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, will present the 16th annual Dorothy M. Horstmann Lecture on Wednesday, May 28.
Titled “The Cutter Incident: Lessons from the Past,” the lecture is presented as part of the Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds series and is co-sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the School of Medicine. It will take place at noon in Fitkin Amphitheatre, 330 Cedar St. All are welcome to attend.
Offit also serves as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is a recipient of many awards, including a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health.
Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals in the areas of rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety. He is also the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, recently recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC. For this achievement Offit received the Gold Medal from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Jonas Salk Medal from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
Offit is the author of four books including “The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to Today’s Growing Vaccine Crisis,” which is the focus of his Grand Rounds Lecture.
Dr. Dorothy Horstmann (1911-2001) was the first woman appointed as a professor at the School of Medicine. She made significant contributions to science, education and public health, particularly regarding poliomyelitis and rubella.
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