TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Dr. Barry D. Weiss, the Pfizer Visiting Professor in Health Literacy and Clear Health Communications, will speak on “Health Literacy: The Hidden Risk Factor” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Lecture Halls A-C at The University of Alabama’s Child Development Research Center.
The Rural Health Institute for Clinical and Translational Science in UA’s College of Community Health Sciences is hosting the lecture. Weiss’ talk is free and open to the public.
At 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, Weiss will deliver a more clinically focused version of the same address for the Winternitz Lecture in Classrooms 1-3 of University Medical Center on the UA campus.
As a visiting professor, Weiss will offer additional lectures and workshops Tuesday, Nov. 4, through Thursday, Nov. 6, at UA’s College of Community Health Sciences and throughout the community, including two identical workshops on writing health and patient-education handouts at 8 and 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in Room 227 of the Child Development Research Center.
Weiss wrote the American Medical Association’s Health Literacy Manual for Physicians and is editor of Family Medicine. He is a professor in the department of family and community medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and an affiliate professor of public health in the College of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has been involved in the fields of health literacy and patient-physician communication for much of his professional career.
His writings on these topics have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and a variety of other medical journals and books.
The Pfizer Visiting Professorships fund three days of workshops and are awarded on a competitive basis through the Pfizer Medical and Academic Partnerships program. For more information on attending these workshops, contact Dr. Lea G. Yerby at 205/348-4693 or yerby002@cchs.ua.edu.
The College of Community Health Sciences operates a comprehensive, state-of-the-art medical clinic, University Medical Center, where College faculty members conduct their medical practices and where students and residents receive clinical experience and training. The College’s research component supports faculty and student research efforts, including clinical trials.
Contact
Richard LeComte, UA Media Relations, 205/348-3782, rllecomte@advance.ua.edu
Source
Dr. Lea G. Yerby, 205/348-4693, yerby002@cchs.ua.edu