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The 21st Annual Raymond W. Waggoner Lecture on Ethics & Values in Medicine
"Gun Violence, Mental Illness and the Law: Balancing Risk and Rights for Effective Policy"
The 21st Annual Raymond W. Waggoner Lecture on Ethics & Values in Medicine will be held on Wednesday, November 2 from 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. at Ford Auditorium in University Hospital. This year's featured speaker is Jeffrey Swanson, Ph.D., MA who will give a talk on "Gun Violence, Mental Illness and the Law: Balancing Risk and Rights for Effective Policy."
Jeffrey Swanson is Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He earned a PhD in Sociology from Yale University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in mental health services research at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Swanson is the author or coauthor of over 200 publications focused on the epidemiology of violence and serious mental illnesses; effectiveness of community-based interventions and services for adults with schizophrenia and other serious psychiatric disorders; laws and policies to reduce firearms violence; involuntary outpatient commitment; and psychiatric advance directives.
Dr. Swanson is currently Co-Director of the NIMH-funded UNC-Chapel Hill/Duke Postdoctoral Training Program in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and Systems Research. He is principal investigator of a multi-state study on firearms laws, mental illness and prevention of violence.
The University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry at the established the Raymond W. Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine in 1996. This lectureship was created in honor of the late Dr. Waggoner, emeritus professor and past chairman of the department of psychiatry, who throughout his career and to all who knew him, has exemplified the highest standards of integrity and ethics.
The esteemed lectureship is annual event to recognize Dr. Waggoner's enormous contributions to the University of Michigan medical center and to the profession, and to promulgate his interest in medical ethics. Learn more.
For further information, please contact:
Philip Margolis, M.D.
734-998-6180
[email protected]
or;
Sandra Glover
Administrative Assistant Senior
University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry
Phone:
734-232-0352 [email protected]
Jeffrey Swanson is Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He earned a PhD in Sociology from Yale University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in mental health services research at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Swanson is the author or coauthor of over 200 publications focused on the epidemiology of violence and serious mental illnesses; effectiveness of community-based interventions and services for adults with schizophrenia and other serious psychiatric disorders; laws and policies to reduce firearms violence; involuntary outpatient commitment; and psychiatric advance directives.
Dr. Swanson is currently Co-Director of the NIMH-funded UNC-Chapel Hill/Duke Postdoctoral Training Program in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and Systems Research. He is principal investigator of a multi-state study on firearms laws, mental illness and prevention of violence.
The University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry at the established the Raymond W. Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine in 1996. This lectureship was created in honor of the late Dr. Waggoner, emeritus professor and past chairman of the department of psychiatry, who throughout his career and to all who knew him, has exemplified the highest standards of integrity and ethics.
The esteemed lectureship is annual event to recognize Dr. Waggoner's enormous contributions to the University of Michigan medical center and to the profession, and to promulgate his interest in medical ethics. Learn more.
For further information, please contact:
Philip Margolis, M.D.
734-998-6180
[email protected]
or;
Sandra Glover
Administrative Assistant Senior
University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry
Phone:734-232-0352 [email protected]