McGovern Lecture in Health Communication

McGovern Lecture in Health Communication featuring Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee presents the McGovern Lecture in Health Communication hosted by UT Austin's Center for Health Communication.

Monday April 24, 3:30-4:30pm

Belo Center for New Media second-floor auditorium, BMC 2.106

Event is FREE and open to the public

BACKGROUND:  

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013.

Siddhartha Mukherjee’s THE GENE: An Intimate History  is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans, that governs our form, function, and fate and determines the future of our children. Dr. Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and Cell. 

The McGovern Lecture was established in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin in 1983 by a generous gift from the John P. McGovern Foundation. The endowed lectureship enables the college to invite a leading figure in communication to campus to deliver a lecture related to health policy or the practice of health communication.