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For the past several years, the Dartmouth Medical School, the
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Dartmouth's Biomedical
Libraries have collaborated to offer the C. Everett Koop Lectures on
Medical Informatics.  We are seeking our 1997 speaker; see the
following for details.  I would appreciate your assistance --
telephone me, or send email.  

The Lectures honor Dr. Koop -- Dartmouth's Elizabeth DeCamp McInerny
Professor of Surgery, and Senior Scholar of The C. Everett Koop
Institute here -- and his assumption of a national and regional
planning role in health information systems.  The principal purpose of
the series is two-fold:  to heighten regional awareness of the
importance of information systems in the delivery of health care, and
to bring to Dartmouth's academic medical center a variety of
perspectives from individuals working in information systems
development in other institutions.  

1996/97 is the Bicentennial of the founding of the Dartmouth Medical
School, and ideally 1997's Koop Lecture would build a link to this
celebration.  Consequently, we are looking for a speaker who can
discuss how biomedical information has grown up with and changed
medical education and the practice of medicine, and how medical
informatics may change medical education and practice in the future.  

A historian of medicine with a definite future-looking, technological
bent would be appropriate, as would a technologist able to place the
future of medical informatics in the context of the past.  Of course,
it's a definite plus if the speaker is wittily engaging at the podium.


This year's address can take place in April/May or September/October
1979.  In addition to expenses, we would offer a modest honorarium.  

The inaugural Koop Lecturer was William Stead, M.D., speaking in
February 1995 on advances in informatics.  The second Lecturer was Ted
Shortcliffe, M.D., speaking in May 1996 on the national information
infrastructure and health care.  

Again, thanks for your consideration.

Bill Garrity
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William F. Garrity               Director of Biomedical Libraries
603/650-1662                     Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-
603/650-1789 (fax)               Hitchcock Medical Center
william.garrity@dartmouth.edu    6168 Dana Biomedical Library
william.f.garrity@hitchcock.org  Hanover, NH   03755-3880