Hutchinson Center to televise Wood's health-policy lecture Feb. 10 in Sze

Brief

The University of Washington School of Medicine presents a lecture with Dr. Susan F. Wood from 2 to 3 p.m., Feb. 10, in the UW's Hogness Auditorium, A-420, Health Sciences Building. The lecture, entitled "Women's Health: Emergency Contraception and the FDA" will be simultaneously televised in the following locations:

• The Hutchinson Center, Thomas Building, Sze Conference Rooms (new location)
• Harborview Medical Center, Research & Training Bldg., Room 117/121
• Children's Hospital, Module 3, Room M305

Dr. Wood, former assistant commissioner for Women's Health and former director, Office of Women's Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will speak on the importance of science and medical evidence in health policy decision-making by federal health agencies.

Sponsors for this event include the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and the Hutchinson Center.

Wood, who directed the FDA's Office of Women's Health, has been featured in numerous broadcast and print outlets including Nightline with Ted Koppel, Time, Newsweek, New Republic, and more than 30 newspapers across the country.

Hutchinson Center graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who attend this lecture can receive credit for the Center's research-ethics education program by contacting Lee Strucker, lstrucke@fhcrc.org, (206) 667-1247. The lecture is open to all faculty, staff and students. No registration is required. For more information, contact Strucker at the Center or Vee White at the UW at veewhite@u.washington.edu. Information is also available at www.uwmedicine.org/Research/ResearchTrainingAndSeminars/SIM.xml.

To request disability accommodations, contact the Disability Services offices at (206) 543-6452, or dso@u.washington.edu.

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