Harold Freeman speaks on reducing health disparities at symposium Oct. 28

Brief

Dr. Harold Freeman will speak on "Poverty, Culture and Social Injustice: Determinants of Health Disparities" at the 17th annual John R. Hogness Symposium on Health Care. All are invited to attend the presentation from 3 to 4:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28, at the Hogness Auditorium in the University of Washington's Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center. A reception follows in the Health Sciences lobby.

Freeman is the president, founder and medical director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in New York City. He is also professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Freeman is the former associate director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and former director of the NCI's Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health. For 25 years, he was director of surgery at New York's Harlem Hospital. In 1997 he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Among his numerous achievements, Freeman served as president of the American Cancer Society and chairman and long-term member of the President's Cancer Panel. He is a leading authority on the interrelationships between race, poverty and cancer.

For more information on the John R. Hogness Symposium, call (206) 543-3620.

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