The Dr. Saul Green Memorial Lecture was established for students at King’s through the generosity of the Green family. It is an annual lecture that addresses topics related to Judaism and medicine.
Dr. Saul Green was a graduate of Dalhousie University’s Medical School. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada as well as the American College of Surgeons. A founding member of the Shaar Shalom Synagogue, Dr. Green cared deeply about the relationship between Judaism, medicine and humanitarianism.
Shaar Shalom Synagogue is a conservative congregation providing egalitarian religious services, and educational and cultural programs that enhance Judaism for its individuals, its families and its community. Shaar Shalom is committed to learning, fellowship and community.
Contemporary health care requires further transformation for improved effectiveness and efficiency. Creative and critical thinking is crucial for such transformation. A couple of promising aspects of creative and critical thinking that have not been sufficiently used for health care transformation are learning from counterfactuals (using what if… examples) and learning by analogy (referring to similar issues in other areas of life). This presentation integrates these aspects to learn from the bible how to consider health care transformation in Canada.
In his lecture, Dr. Oore addressed these questions:
A neural network learns to generate music.
In her lecture, Dr. Fuchsman-Small discussed how Médecins Sans Frontières uses its declared principles and evolving sense of its institutional role to address issues such as: when and where to intervene and to pull out; when to speak out and to whom; and how to balance integrity with cultural flexibility.
In his lecture, George Elliott Clarke examined several Shakespeare plays that scruple to dramatize “racial” difference, while also offering competing counter-narratives that align the experience of victimization with mental health disorders, and that, ironically may entertain the socio-political liberation of one group of subjugated persons, while welcoming (or ignoring) the continued suppression of others.