As part of its “Distinguished Leaders in Medicine” series, Dalhousie Medical School has invited Dr. Roz Lasker, an internationally renowned expert on emergency preparedness and community planning to speak.Dr. Lasker  will give a public talk on Thursday, November 26 at 4 p.m.  in the IWK’s OE Smith Auditorium on ”Untested Assumptions: the Achilles  Heel of Emergency Preparedness”.

Dr. Lasker holds an appointment as clinical professor of public health at Columbia
University’s School of Public Health.For over a decade, she directed the Division of Public Health and the Centre for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health at The New York Academy of Medicine where “…she worked with hundreds of people and organizations around the country to study how collaboration strengthens the ability of a group to identify, understand, and solve problems and to develop evidence-based tools that practitioners, evaluators, and funders can use to assess and strengthen collaborative processes. Her research and publications have focused on medicine and public health collaboration, partnership synergy, the public’s role in emergency preparedness, and the voice and influence of historically excluded groups in community participation processes.”

Find a list of speakers in this series, including  Dr, Lasker, here.