Flexner Dean’s Lecture

Jay Wellons, Cal Turner Professor and professor of neurological surgery, will deliver the Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s Flexner Deans’ Discovery Lecture on Monday, Dec. 12, at noon in Langford Auditorium. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series will present Dr. Qaali Hussein on Monday, Nov. 21, at noon in Light Hall, Room 214. Read More

E. Wesley Ely, Grant W. Liddle Professor and professor of medicine, will discuss “Every Deep-drawn Breath: Vanderbilt’s role in Revolutionizing ICU Care Globally” on Tuesday, Oct. 25, beginning at noon in Light Hall, Room 202. Read More

Zoanne Clack, executive producer of the long-running ABC Television medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, will discuss “Medicine and the Media: Friend or Foe?” on Monday, March 28, beginning at noon in Langford Auditorium. The event is part of the School of Medicine’s Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series. Read More

J. Todd Frazier, a composer and director of Houston Methodist Hospital's Center for Performing Arts Medicine, will discuss "A Multimedia Survey of an Integrated, Comprehensive Arts and Medicine Program in the Texas Medical Center" on Monday, March 21, at noon in Langford Auditorium. Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series will present two student lectures on Monday, March 7, at noon in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Science historian and author Subhadra Das will present the next Flexner Deans’ Lecture on Friday, Dec. 3. Das will discuss “We Need New Science Stories” beginning at noon CT. Read More

Veronica Ades, vice chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Jacobi Medical Center, will discuss "Sexual Trauma and Trauma-informed Care" on Monday, Nov. 1, from noon to 1 p.m. CT via Zoom. The lecture is part of the 2021-22 Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series at the School of Medicine. Read More

David K. Randall, a senior reporter with Reuters and author of "Black Death at the Golden Gate," will discuss "How the Lessons of the San Francisco Bubonic Plague Outbreak Apply to the Coronavirus Pandemic" via Zoom as part of the School of Medicine's Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series on Monday, Sept. 20, from noon to 1 p.m. CT. Read More

Nicole Woods, associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, will discuss “Back to Basics: Cognition, Curriculum and Context in Medical Education” on Monday, April 19, beginning at noon CT. Her talk is The John E. Chapman, M.D. Lecture in Medical Education for the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series. Read More

Michael Ashley Stein, co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and visiting professor at Harvard Law School, will present “Mental Health, Involuntary Treatment, Legal Capacity and Human Rights” on Friday, Feb. 5. Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's Flexner Deans' Lecture Series presents the annual Philip W. Felts Lecture in Humanities on Thursday, Jan. 12. Will Flanary will present “Life Lessons from a joke-telling Ophthalmologist” beginning at noon. Flanary is an ophthalmologist, writer and comedian who moonlights in his free time as “Dr. Glaucomflecken” on Twitter and TikTok. Read More

P. Preston Reynolds, a physician-historian at the University of Virginia, will give an online talk, “The History of African Americans in Medicine,” on Monday, Dec. 7, beginning at noon CT. Reynolds will return to join a panel of Vanderbilt faculty to discuss “The History of African Americans in Medicine: Abraham Flexner, Racism and Vanderbilt” on Monday, Dec. 14, also beginning at noon CT. Read More

Stephen Trzeciak, chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care and professor and chair of medicine at Rowan University's Cooper Medical School, will discuss "Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference" on Nov. 16 at noon as part of the Flexner Deans' Lecture Series. Read More

Art Van Zee, a primary care general internist with the St. Charles Clinic in St. Charles, Virginia, will discuss "The Promotion and Marketing of Oxycontin: 20 Years Later, an Opioid Crisis, Lessons Learned and Opportunities not to Miss" on Monday, Oct. 19, beginning at noon. Read More

Marie Kuzemchak Patten and Samuel Trump will speak as part of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 2020 student lectures beginning at noon, Monday, March 23, in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

David C. Henderson, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and assistant dean of diversity and inclusion at Boston University School of Medicine, will discuss the “Global and Local Impact of Mass Violence" on Monday, Feb. 17, beginning at noon in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More

Dr. Kimberly Manning, associate vice chair of diversity, equity and inclusion at Emory University School of Medicine, will discuss "The Patient as our Teacher: Timeless Lessons and Teachable Moments" on Wednesday, Feb. 12, as part of the Flexner Dean's Lecture Series. Read More

Tait Shanafelt, Jeanie and Stewart Richie Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, will discuss "Organization and System-based Approaches to Promote Well-being" at noon on Monday, Jan. 13, in Light Hall, Room 208. The talk is part of the Flexner Deans' Lecture Series. Read More

James J. O’Connell, president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will discuss "Medicine in the Streets: Three Decades Caring for Boston's Rough Sleepers" beginning at noon on Monday, Nov. 11, in Light Hall, Room 208. Read More