Lecture “Meaning in Medicine”
About the Talk
Medicine is a practice focused on human beings and is a human profession in its purest form. Today there is disenchantment in the calling of medicine wrought through the sciences and technical knowledge that have crowded out wisdom. Science by itself cannot tell us how medicine ought to be. The practice of medicine ought to be built upon the wisdom of the humanities in order to ensure the science of medicine is humane. In her lecture titled Meaning in Medicine, Dr. Collier will encourage us to think about what medicine is for, and how to reclaim meaning in medicine, through a seeking of wisdom that can be found in the humanities.
About the Speaker
Kristin Collier, MD, FACP is an associate professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan where she serves as the director of the University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality, and Religion. She is also an associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Michigan where she oversees the primary care track. She received her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her internship, residency, and chief residency at The University of Michigan Hospitals. Her academic interests are in the overlap of spirituality, religion, and medicine and her peer-reviewed work has been published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the British Medical Journal, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She also has had writings published in Notre Dame’s Church Life Journal, Theopolis, America Magazine, and Public Discourse. She is also a wife and a proud mother of four boys.
About the Lectureship
The annual Lisio Family Lecture was endowed by Drs. Arnold Lisio and Anne Moore to bring nationally renowned speakers to Columbia University Medical Center to address important ethical issues at the core of medical practice. The Lisio family’s vision is that this lectureship contribute to the ethical formation of medical students and the flourishing of the doctor-patient relationship.
An internist, Dr. Lisio came to Columbia in 1961, and led an active clinical practice until his retirement in 2015. Dr. Moore is a 1969 graduate of Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons. She is a medical oncologist on the faculty of Weill Cornell Medicine.
Please email [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns. More details about Columbia’s Center for Clinical Medical Ethics can be found here
Location: Lobby & Room 404/405
Time: 5:00-7:00 pm EDT
Free!
