Medical Center Hour
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89105967067
Spring 2026
Wednesday, January 28 – Zoom Only, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Zula Mae Baber Bice Memorial Lecture
Beyond Band-Aids and Duct Tape: Building Systems That Care
Lauryn Walker, PhD, MPH, BSN, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources for Governor-Elect Abigail Spanberger
Friday, February 13 – In-person with Zoom hybrid, 12:15 to 1:15 pm, UVA Education Resource Center
Zoom link: https://uvahealth-org.zoom.us/j/91431355619?pwd=KgarpAkeK5EV0D12t65RmUaQQYabFy.1
Meeting ID: 914 3135 5619 Passcode: 18191819
Sponsored by the Edward W. Hook Endowment
What’s Art Got to Do with It? Medical Education in the Museum
Ray Williams, Director of Education and Academic Affairs, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Hosted by UVA Medical Grand Rounds
Wednesday, March 11 – Zoom only, 12:00 to 1:00 pm
Sponsored by History of the Health Sciences Historical Collections & Services
Race and Reparations in the History of Psychiatry
Kylie Smith, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University and Adjunct Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
Wednesday, March 25 – In-person with Zoom hybrid, 12:00 to 1:00 pm, Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Welcome: Patterns of Ethical Healthcare
Lois Shepherd, JD, BA, Wallenborn Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Professor of Law, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Margaret Mohrmann, MD, PhD, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics, Medical Education, and Religious Studies at UVA
Thursday, April 16 – In-person with Zoom hybrid, 12:00 to 1:00 pm,UVA Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
The Art of Our Scars: Creative Applications of Patient Narrative in Clinical Discourse and Medical Education–a Kidney Transplant Recipient’s Perspective
Jess Walters, Board Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA) and Arts Research Fellow at the UVA Center for Health Humanities and Ethics
Medical Center Hour is free of charge and open to the public.
For more information, see Center for Health Humanities and Ethics:
https://med.virginia.edu/biomedical-ethics/medical-center-hour/
Watch Medical Center Hour recordings at:
https://www.youtube.com/user/UVAMCH
About
Medical Center Hour is the School of Medicine’s weekly public forum on medicine and society. Produced by the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, the series includes History of the Health Sciences Lectures co-presented with Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. The series is also home to several other annual lectures of the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Medical Center Hour is presented on Wednesdays from mid-September through March at midday (12:00-1:00 pm) in the medical school’s Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium, and on Zoom, unless otherwise announced. All programs are free and open to the entire university and the public.
Most programs are video recorded for educational purposes and, with speakers’ permission, made available through UVA Library and also on Medical Center Hour’s dedicated YouTube channel, UVAMCH. Because recordings must be closed-captioned before being posted, there will be delays in online program availability.
PLEASE NOTE: The post activity evaluation for each program will only be available 15 minutes prior and 7 days after each session. Credit will not be issued after the evaluation period has closed. Information on how to submit an evaluation is at the bottom of every handout.