Samuel O. Thier, an authority on internal medicine and kidney disease as well as national health policy, medical education, and biomedical research, will speak at USC Sept. 13 for the inaugural Samuel O. Thier-Robert Mayer Lectureship in Biomedical Research and Health Policy.
Thier’s lecture, “What are the Sciences of Medicine,” will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Lumpkin Auditorium in the Daniel Management Center on the 8th floor of the BA Building. The public is invited to attend. Thier, a former president of Massachusetts General Hospital and of Brandeis University, is a professor of medicine and health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
President Sorensen and his wife, Donna, are endowing the annual lectureship. The Sorensens’ connection to Thier is both professional and personal; he is a friend and colleague of President Sorensen’s and introduced the Sorensens to Dr. Robert Mayer, director of the Center for Gastrointestinal Malignancies at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Since 2003, Mayer has overseen cancer treatments for Mrs. Sorensen’s brother, Ronald Ingemie.
“Our hope is that this lectureship will bring in well-known figures in cancer research and health policy,” Mrs. Sorensen said. “We’re grateful for the help that Dr. Thier and Dr. Mayer have provided to us, and we want to share their expertise and that of others with the Columbia community.”
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