Humanities Days - Dr. Ron Stewart, Emergency Medicine

 Dr. Ron Stewart – Emergency Medicine

Seminar 11:30am-12:30am

Tupper Theatre C

History of Medicine lecture

*Catered lunch will be provided

Synopsis

Dr. William Osler’s son Revere Osler died in WW I as a result of injury. Dr. Stewart explores this fascinating case asking the question: Would modern emergency care have been able to save this historic figure? 

Biography

Dr. Ron Stewart is founder and director of Music-in-Medicine, part of the Medical Humanities Program at Dalhousie Medical School. He also holds teaching professorships in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Community Health and Epidemiology. Dr. Stewart has been heading the Music-in-Medicine program for the past 10 years in addition to his wide-ranging medical career: from village family practice along the north coast of Cape Breton to Los Angeles' emergency rooms; from teaching to politics (he was Nova Scotia's Minister of Health from 1993 to 1996).

Contact Mary Cronkhite for more information. Email: cronkhite@dal.ca