Dr. Julie A. Freischlag, chair of the department of surgery and surgeon-in-chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, will present two lectures in March. Both talks are open to all medical professionals and are through the Dr. Emmett B. Frazer and Dr. Milton M. Leigh Endowments at the University of South Alabama department of surgery. Dr. Freischlag will present the first lecture, “Leadership During Times of Change,” on March 11, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. at the Health Sciences Building at the corner of University Boulevard and USA North Drive. Her second lecture, titled “Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: How Things Have Changed Over 50 Years,” will take place March 12, 2010, at 7 a.m. at the University of South Alabama Medical Center.
Dr. Freischlag is an international expert in thoracic outlet surgery, a syndrome that causes problems in the upper extremities. She is the first woman to head any large clinical department at Hopkins Hospital. Prior to moving to Baltimore, Dr. Freischlag was the chief of vascular surgery and director of the Gonda (Goldschmied) Vascular Center at the University of California in Los Angeles. She completed her surgical residency and post residency Vascular Fellowship at UCLA.
This annual memorial lecture, funded by community surgeons and the USA Department of Surgery, is given to honor the legacy of Dr. Emmett B. Frazer and Dr. Milton M. Leigh as leaders in clinical service and graduate surgical education in the Mobile community.
For more information on both lectures, contact the department of surgery at (251) 471-7993. A flyer is also available at - http://www.southalabama.edu/com/surgery/pdf/frazerlecture.pdf .
