Dr. Fabrizio Michelassi, who was on the front lines of the pandemic at New York Presbyterian, will give a free talk titled In the Eye of the Storm: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 16 at the Wolf Education & Training Center, 529 West Junipero St., Santa Barbara.
Dr. Michelassi is Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and chairman in the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Center, and surgeon-in-chief at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Title sponsor of his lecture is Cottage Health. Reservations are required. To attend, contact J.V. Vallejos, 805-681-7528 or jvallejo@sansumclinic.org by March 10.
Dr. Michelassi will explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought important changes to the field of healthcare, and how it has changed the way we receive and deliver medical care.
Dr. Michelassi was selected as the Visiting Professor of Surgery for Surgical Academic Week 2023 (March 13-16.) The Visiting Professor of Surgery Endowment Fund allows a prominent national or international surgeon to be in residence in Santa Barbara for one academic week a year.
The fund was established in December 2010 by Dr. Ronald G. Latimer, the Department of Surgery and Sansum Clinic to advance educational opportunities for local surgeons and surgical residents in training at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
Program administrator is Dr. W. Charles Conway, surgical oncologist at Ridley-Tree Cancer Center.
Note, masks will be required at the public lecture.