Abraham Verghese is a nationally recognized and award winning author and practicing physician.  Today, he makes his home in El Paso, Texas where he the Professor of Medicine and Chief of Infectious Diseases at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center.  In 1995, he received international acclaim for his account of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on a small-town in Tennessee- My Own Country: A Doctor's Story.  More recently his The Tennis Partner and its tragic account of a man's struggle with drug addiction established Verghese as one of the most compassionate and moving observers of the darker sides of our culture.  A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The North American review, Sports Illustrated, Story, and, most recently, The Atlantic Monthly.  Verghese, an Indian doctor born and raised in Ethiopia, is a Syrio Malabar Orthodox Christian and today is working on a novel set in India.

Verghese's talk is the first lecture in a new series on Ethical Thinking in Global Times sponsored by the University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John's University and is co-sponsored by the Schirber Lecture Series in Medical Ethics.

Schedule for April 10, 2002

3:30 - 4:30 Student Meeting Q353, SJU
5:30 - 7:00 Dinner, Great Hall, SJU
7:30 - 9:00 Presentation, Quad 264, SJU

 

The University Chair in Critical Thinking

and the

Schirber Lecture Series in Medical Ethics

 

present

The Search
for
Meaning
in
Medical Life

A PUBLIC LECTURE BY

Abraham Verghese

7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Quad 264, Centenary Room
Saint John's University

The Search for Meaning in Medical Life (Audio File)
Links to Verghese
Map of St. John's