Tuesday, May 05, 2009

5/13: Melville Author Series presents Dr. Shetal Shah



WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 at 4 p.m.
Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library)

Melville Library Author Series: Passport to Illness: Voyages In and Out of Medicine featuring Dr. Shetal Shah, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Stony Brook University Medical Center.

Program: In fourteen distinct narratives, Dr. Shetal Shah outlines in Passport to Illness: Voyages In and Out of Medicine not just the medical cases that make one a physician, but the personal stories, anecdotes, and relationships that each doctor brings to the bedside. From inner-city New York to the streets of Cuba to rural towns in Kenya, he guides you through his unique world, where the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the bedside of a fragile, premature infant in New York are not far apart.

Location: Javits Room (2nd floor of the Melville Library) - Free and Open to All.
Sponsor: University Libraries.

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