The Renee Fox Lecture in Medicine, Culture, and Society

Recent visiting professors include:

• 2023 — Dr. Jason Karlawish, MD, University of Pennsylvania Penn Memory Center & The Penn Program on Precision Medicine for the Brain. "A Mind in Splints: What It Is Like To Be a Person Living With Dementia."
• 2022 — Dr. Peter Hotez, MD, PhD., DSc (hon), FASTMH, FAAP
  COVID-19 Vaccines—Science vs. Antiscience
• 2021 — Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PhD
  What went wrong and what went well in the world: Lessons from COVID-19 Management
• 2019 — Julie Fairman, RN, PhD, FAAN
  Nurse Practitioners: their history and their future in a changing health care environment
• 2018 — Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD
  Senor Writer, The new York Times How Business Hijacked Healthcare and How to Get it Back on Course
• 2016 — Ernest Drucker, PhD, Professor of Public Health, NYU College of Global Public Health
  “Decarcerating America: From Mass Punishment to Public Health”
• 2015 — Sophie Dalaunay, Executive Director, Doctors Without Borders, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
  “Saving the World, Or Saving One Life at a Time? Lessons My Career With MSF Has Taught Me”
• 2014 — Anne Fadiman, Essayist, Reporter and Teacher
  “The Spirit Catches You and You Will Fall Down”
• 2013 — Farhat Moazam, MD, PhD, Professor and Founding Chair, Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan
  “We are the Children of our Landscape: Practicing Medicine in Pakistan”
• 2012 — Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH
  Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• 2011 — Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD
  Harvard University
• 2010 — Deborah A. Frank, MD
  Boston University
• 2009 — Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
  Partners in Health, Harvard University