The McGoogan Health Sciences Library will host award-winning author Christine Montross, MD, author of “Falling Into the Fire,” for the 17th annual Richard B. Davis, MD, PhD, History of Medicine Lecture on Tuesday, April 14.
Dr. Montross, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will present “All We Do Not Know: The Enduring Mysteries of Medicine in the Age of Information.” The lecture will be held in the UNMC College of Nursing auditorium, Room 1011, from noon-1p.m.
The in-person event is open to the med center community; no registration is required. Watch the event or register to attend via Zoom. Boxed lunches will be available for the first 20 in-person attendees.
Dr. Montross will reflect on what it means to practice medicine in a profession often viewed as one of clear answers and decisive action, while clinicians regularly encounter uncertainty – ambiguous science, limits to cure and situations where action does not necessarily serve the patient.
She explores how embracing the unknown can broaden providers’ understanding of what may be “right” for their patients, ease the pressure to always find the perfect answer and offer a source of wonder and inspiration within the practice of medicine.
Dr. Montross is a practicing inpatient psychiatrist and performs forensic psychiatric examinations. She completed medical school and residency training at Brown University, where she received the Isaac Ray Award in Psychiatry and the Martin B. Keller Outstanding Brown Psychiatry Resident Award.
Her first book, “Body of Work,” was named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times and one of The Washington Post’s best nonfiction books of the year. “Falling Into the Fire” was named a New Yorker Book to Watch Out For.
The Richard B. Davis, MD, PhD, History of Medicine Lectureship brings national experts to UNMC to discuss the history of medicine in support of special collections at the McGoogan Library, including rare books and works on the history of medicine.
The lectureship is supported through an endowed fund given by the late Richard B. Davis (1926-2010), MD, PhD, who was a UNMC faculty member from 1969 to 1994 and professor emeritus of internal medicine at UNMC. Dr. Davis and his wife, Jean, provided support for the lectureship out of his longstanding interest in the history of medicine.