Thursday, December 9, 2021

Randall W. Powell Endowed Memorial Lectures set for Dec. 16-17

The 2021 Randall W. Powell Endowed Memorial Lectureship in Pediatric Surgery, hosted by the USA Department of Surgery, will feature Doruk Ozgediz, M.D., M.S.C., director of the Center of Global Surgery and Health Equity and associate professor of pediatric surgery at the University of California San Francisco.

Ozgediz will present the first lecture, “Surgical Pearls and Pitfalls: Lessons in Partnerships to Serve Vulnerable Populations Globally” on Thursday, Dec. 16, at 4:30 p.m. via Zoom: https://southalabama.zoom.us/j/96457019824

His second lecture, titled “Global Surgery 2021: Where are we now and where are we going?” is set for Friday, Dec. 17, at 7 a.m. via Zoom: https://southalabama.zoom.us/j/96457019824.

The lectureship is named in honor of the late Randall W. Powell, M.D., former professor of surgery at the USA College of Medicine and director of the division of pediatric surgery, who passed away in 2017. 

Both lectures are CME accredited. For more information, contact the USA Department of Surgery at 251-445-8230.